: a column of wagons (as of supplies for a group of settlers) traveling overland
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For Stewart’s character, that means helping a wagon train find its way to Oregon.—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 18 July 2025 The game positions the player as the leader of a wagon train west across a fantasy of virgin land.—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 Feb. 2025 The show follows the events surrounding the real-life Mountain Meadows Massacre, a violent attack that led to the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker-Fancher wagon train.—Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025 Though the yearlong standoff was uneventful, tensions led to Mormons attacking and killing more than 100 innocent people in a wagon train bound for California.—David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wagon train
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