Emigrant trains moved west carrying entire households in visible, weary exodus
Evidence
Occasionally I met a horseman with a rifle lying across his saddle, or a wagon of the ordinary sort, but oftener I saw a wagon with a white tilt, of the kind known as a “Prairie Schooner,” laboring across the grass, or a train of them, accompanied by herds, mules, and horsemen, bearing emigrants and their household goods in dreary exodus from the Western States to the much-vaunted prairies of Colorado. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 155
Categorization
- CANDY: The covered wagon was literally called a prairie schooner — a small, tweetable linguistic fossil of the era.
- XREF: connects to: Western emigrant wagon families spent months crossing with devastating losses — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 344; Postwar Western Europe shifted from emigration to mass destination of immigration. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 41; Whole families migrated a thousand miles driving herds across the plains — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 156
Broader Connections
- Western emigrant wagon families spent months crossing with devastating losses
#expands(0.95) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 344 - Whole families migrated a thousand miles driving herds across the plains
#expands(0.90) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 156 - Postwar Western Europe shifted from emigration to mass destination of immigration.
#complicates(0.75) — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 41