wagon train

noun

: a column of wagons (as of supplies for a group of settlers) traveling overland

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Lawhorn served under Robert E. Lee in the Civil War and migrated to Texas by wagon train. —

Mitchell Parton, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023 Directed by Sidney Poitier, the movie stars Poitier and Harry Belafonte as cowboys in the late 1860s who lead a wagon train of Black settlers from Louisiana to the unsettled territories of Kansas, while fighting off white raiders hired by plantation owners to scare the passengers back to the South. —

Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 July 2022 The Donner Party was a group of pioneers that attempted to migrate from Illinois to California in search of opportunity via a wagon train that partly followed the Oregon Trail starting in the spring of 1846. —

Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2023 The wagon train also breaks up. —

Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 27 Feb. 2022 The wagon train faces its final challenge. —

Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2021 When he’s brought it up in the past, Jones has attributed the wagon train comparison to Barry Switzer, which makes even more sense during a season like this one. —

San Antonio Express-News, 13 Nov. 2021 In 1883, the fiery teen set out from Fort Worth with her family on a wagon train, bound for a new life in the American west. —

Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 8 Jan. 2023 For example, literary sources and analysis of burial grounds of the Goths from this period in the Balkans attest to the existence of a wagon train of women (and children) who followed the barbarian warbands along the Roman roads. —

Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2010 See More

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