Rising up over the summit of an elevation in the plains and looking down the descending grade she saw slowly coming towards her and her companion a covered wagon drawn by two horses.
Instead of meeting him alive and well she had encountered a covered wagon, which she described, bringing in his dead body, seeing which she had screamed so loud as to awaken herself and others asleep near her.
On the third day a covered wagon drove up to the cabin, and he was delighted to hear the voice of his friend calling him.
The body was then placed in the ranchman's covered wagon, and the cortege started for Hayes City, meeting Mrs. Ramsey on the road.
Accordingly he made the necessary arrangements for the trip, securing a covered wagon and an ox team, with which he started across the plains in 1849.
Winship, a native of Ohio, who crossed the plains with her parents in 1852 in a covered wagon drawn by ox teams and settled in Oregon.
In 1861, however, they started for the Pacific coast in a covered wagon drawn by mules and at length reached Walla Walla.
On leaving home in 1870 he went to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he spent a short time, but later in the same year crossed the plains, driving four cows to a covered wagon.
Few people were in the streets at that hour, and when I reached the dim building of the Old Market, I found it cold and deserted, except for a stray cur or two that snarled at Samuel from a heap of trodden straw under a covered wagon.
Occasionally, in the first few miles, a covered wagon crawled by us on its way to town, the driver leaning far over the dusty horses, and singing out "Howdy!
Down the street, as I stood there, came the old familiar cry from a covered wagon: "Water-million!
His master was killed in the Civil War and he then came to Texas in a covered wagon.
William Stone *William Stone was born in a covered wagon, on the way from Alabama to Texas, about 1863.
It am in a covered wagon on de way from Alabama to Texas, two years 'fore freedom.
They actually went in a covered wagon to Ohio for it and hauled it home, all silver, in a box.
The journeymen printers of the Journal office planned to go in a covered wagon, and they offered to make a place for the "devil" if his parents would let him go along.
About the first week of October, in 1851, a covered wagon drew up in front of Thomas Sumner's house, then but four miles out from Indianapolis on the National Road.
They were both around the corner in a moment, and Grey at once made inquiries of the German owner of a "grey horse and a covered wagon" as to what part of the city he had removed the trunk.
There's a lady here that wants to ride in a covered wagon, and sit back where she can't see the water.
I was not really afraid of them if worst came to worst, but I did see that it was two to one; so I thought of evading the search, but the hiding of a team of four cows and a covered wagon on the open Iowa prairie was no easy trick.
It was not more than a week after this donation picnic, when I came home for my nooning one day, and found a covered wagon in the yard, and two strange horses in the stable.
The best times I've ever had in my life," he remarked as we were looking away across the plain at the faint shapes of the Spanish Peaks, "was when I was cruising the prairie in a covered wagon.
This was but a temporary lodging, a kind of camping place, for no sooner were his fields seeded than he set forth once again with a covered wagon, eager to explore the open country to the north and west of us.
Your travelling has been mainly in a covered wagon.
A covered wagon drawn by black horses and there is another following it and still another.
Five minutes later these two joyful gypsies started away in a covered wagon.
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