Word: conestoga
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...same newsy editorial approach and format he uses in Vermont Life. He still sticks to regional history, but his regions are selected from all over the U.S. Well on his way toward making the past as readable as the present, he tries to keep an even balance between things (Conestoga wagons, railroads, the American eagle), places and people (Garfield's assassin, Lincoln as a horse tamer), and events (Tippecanoe, the Bear Flag revolt). Newton, who is also a director of Massachusetts' famed Old Sturbridge Village (TIME, Nov. 5), puts out the magazine in his spare time with...
...Manhattan, some 300 scientists, doctors, astronomers, engineers, aviators and lawyers were too busy to hear it. They were gathered at the Hayden Planetarium for the first annual Symposium on Space Travel, and they were loading up modern Conestoga wagons for the interstellar frontiers...
Perhaps the tone of the film may be summed up in the scene where the wagon train starts across the great prairies. A bearded pioneer splits the air with a cry, and his covered wagon charges forward; the second Conestoga lurches ahead into the sunset. Then Hope hollers, and his team sprints forward. Too bad he forgets to hitch them to the wagon...
...Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret paid a visit to a reclamation project, where the wind proved bitter arid the Queen proved adaptable. For the sake of her ears she put on a scarf; for the sake of appearance she left on her hat. The result faintly suggested a Conestoga wagon...
...father was a Missouri bullwhacker, a driver of the 16-hitch ox teams that pulled Conestoga wagons over the old Santa Fe trail...