Conestoga Poems - Poems about Conestoga

...How was it back in the day? The second-grader asked me. I knew by now he thought I was at least a hundred and three. We rode in Conestoga wagons for months, I told him. Threw pianos out too. Ate w......Read the rest...

...Parents said goodbye to their daughters who were heading west Hugged their grandchildren tightly to their breasts The Conestoga wagon with her upward curved floor Making sure there would be no tip......Read the rest...

...Last Trains at the End of an Echo by Sy Roth The Conestoga wagons littered the wasteland with their spiny bones in search of the comfort of others clattering, grinding wheels singi......Read the rest...

...Buckaroos wave in the wagons into a corral, circle of Conestoga wagons mixed with covered wagons 100 count, Next to the butte, a springer delivers calf alive; compadres cheer wahoo! Exuberance loo......Read the rest...

...I saw an old wagon wheel in the antique store the other day. What type of vehicle it must have conveyed, I couldn't really say, But I let my imagination roam as I studied the old wheel, And ponder......Read the rest...

...Oregon State Flag "STATE OF OREGON" flag A Navy blue field Escutcheon in gold The majestic American eagle Stands proudly above Expressing support for Its admittances in E......Read the rest...

...Above my hearth rests a muzzle loader I know not how old. Ah, could it speak, what adventurous tales to be told! Oft I've caressed it and pondered time and again, About where it was made and who i......Read the rest...

...American Osmosis Jamestown was the source of this Movement that swept across the continent At first the ships were left behind And people used what they could find A mule, an ox, a Per......Read the rest...

...They left their father's hearths, those stalwart pioneers, To follow their dreams to the west seeking new frontiers. They laded Conestoga wagons and without a backward glance, With faith and forti......Read the rest...