2018年5月8日 · conestoga wagon Originating among the Pennsylvania Dutch , it first came into general use on the overland routes across the Alleghenies just after the American Revolution . The Conestoga wagon was huge and heavily built, with broad wheels suited to dirt roads and a bed higher at either end of the wagon than in the middle.

2018年6月11日 · Another type of wagon used during pioneer times was the Conestoga, so named for Pennsylvania's Conestoga Valley, where it was first built during the early 1700s. Alternately called the camel of the prairies, the Conestoga was an uncovered wagon, pulled by teams of four to six horses. This wagon had wide-rimmed wheels that prevented it from ...

2018年6月27日 · The wagon was made with six or seven arching wooden bows supporting a canvas cover. Seen from a distance, the vehicle so resembled a ship at sea as to suggest the name. Mormons, California gold-seekers, emigrants to Oregon, freighters operating on the Great Plains , and settlers seeking homesteads all used the schooner after it was brought into ...

2018年5月23日 · William Becknell, a Missouri merchant, took the first wagon train, of three wagons, to Santa Fe (in present-day New Mexico), from May to July 1822; and the first wagon trail from Santa Fe to southern California seems to have been marked during the Mexican-American War by Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke with his Mormon Battalion (19 October ...

2018年5月11日 · He negotiated treaties with the Indians and foresaw a clash with the French on the frontiers. He designed the Conestoga wagon to transport trade goods to Indian country and furs for export back to Philadelphia. He became rich through personal investments in land and an active mercantile trade.

2018年5月9日 · Conestoga wagon horse-drawn freight wagon; originated in the Conestoga Creek region in Pennsylvania. [Am. Hist.: EB, III: 72] Crazy Horse (1842 – 1877) Indian chief who led Sioux against the white men in the northern plains. [Am. Hist.: EB, III: 225 – 226]

2018年5月29日 · PONY EXPRESS. Pony Express was a short-lived but emblematic mail and small package carrier service that operated during the mid-1800s.

2018年6月27日 · Daniel Webster >Daniel Webster (1782-1852), a notable orator and leading constitutional >lawyer, was a major congressional spokesman for the Northern Whigs during >his 20 years in the U.S. Senate.

2018年6月8日 · MELTING POT. MELTING POT is a term that originated in Israel Zangwill's 1908 drama, The Melting Pot. It examined the American dream, the acceptance of newcomers, and their subsequent Americanization.

2018年5月11日 · The job was shortlived, however, as Watson succumbed to the lure of the open road and the life of a traveling salesman, peddling pianos, organs, and sewing machines off the back of a wagon. He soon joined forces with a more established salesman named C. B. Barron, this time selling stock in the Northern New York State Building and Loan Association.