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Kearney, Nebraska: Oxen Pulling a Prairie Schooner

Big ox haul futilely at a giant covered wagon. Deteriorating.

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Oxen Pulling a Prairie Schooner

The building is being repaired and turned into real estate offices. According to the worker that was on-site, the oxen are staying.

[Amy Puczylowski, 10/16/2010]
Oxen Pulling a Prairie Schooner

While driving west on US-30 from Kearney you'll find two gigantic oxen pulling a prairie schooner. The prairie schooner is really the outer part of a building that used to be a trading post and the oxen are actually part of the building. The trading post closed some years ago when the owner passed away, and the building is now in poor condition. It's a memento of the way things "used to be" on the old highway.

[John Holmes, 08/14/2007]

Oxen Pulling a Prairie Schooner

Address:
23835 W. 24th St., Kearney, NE
Directions:
On the north side of US Hwy 30/W. 24th St., between Dove Hill and 62nd Aves., roughly four miles west of Kearney.
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