Conestoga wagons were the eighteen-wheelers of their working day. Mennonite German settlers developed and crafted the sturdy wagons to haul up to 6 tons of freight about very rough terrain. A wagon’s contents ended up secured from shifting because of curved floorboards which prevented the freight from falling out through https://medium.com/@refinedtraditions/the-history-of-the-word-stogie-2544ebffee4a