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prairie wagon † prairie immigrant wagon Hist. 
any of various types of wagon used by settlers in the westward migration of the nineteenth century.
See also: prairie schooner
- 1888 The Indian dogs or huskies haul the portable canvas house--like the top of a prairie immigrant waggon on runners. . . .
- 1909 He [the Mountie] brands stray cattle, interrogates each new arrival in a prairie-waggon . . . herds wood bison on the Slave. . . .
- 1888 The Indian dogs or huskies haul the portable canvas house--like the top of a prairie immigrant waggon on runners. . . .