英语词汇conestoga wagons的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Conestoga wagons; stogy. The heavy, covered, broad- wheeled Conestoga wagons that carried American pioneers westward, crossing many a waving sea of grass like “prairie schooners,” were named for the Conestoga Valley in Pennsyl- vania, where they were first made in about 1750. But as Menck- en points out, Conestoga Valley derives in turn from the name of a long-extinct band of Iroquois Indians. So little has been done for the Indian that we should honor him where we can. The wagons, pulled by their six-horse teams, also supplied the West with manufactured goods and brought back raw materi- als, some carrying up to eight tons of freight. Stogy, a cheap cigar today, was coined by the Conestoga teamsters—either after the Conestoga Valley tobacco that they rolled into thin, unbound cigars for their long trips or after the wagons themselves.

词汇	conestoga wagons
词源	Conestoga wagons; stogy. The heavy, covered, broad- wheeled Conestoga wagons that carried American pioneers westward, crossing many a waving sea of grass like “prairie schooners,” were named for the Conestoga Valley in Pennsyl- vania, where they were first made in about 1750. But as Menck- en points out, Conestoga Valley derives in turn from the name of a long-extinct band of Iroquois Indians. So little has been done for the Indian that we should honor him where we can. The wagons, pulled by their six-horse teams, also supplied the West with manufactured goods and brought back raw materi- als, some carrying up to eight tons of freight. Stogy, a cheap cigar today, was coined by the Conestoga teamsters—either after the Conestoga Valley tobacco that they rolled into thin, unbound cigars for their long trips or after the wagons themselves.
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