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Wagon train   /wˈægən treɪn/   Listen
Wagon train

noun
1.
A procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file.  Synonyms: caravan, train.  "They joined the wagon train for safety"






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"Wagon train" Quotes from Famous Books



... come that day several engineers, who formed a surveying party for another railroad project, passing through this forest from St. Paul, whence they had started a month before with an ample wagon train. The Indians had murdered the drivers and captured the wagons with their entire property; and in their destitution they sought this only shelter. We took them forward with us into St. Paul, and were greatly indebted for their ...
— Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4 • Various

... so," sighed Hal. "Of course rookies are just rooks. We'll get the post down by the commissary stores, where a wagon train would be needed for ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock

... of nothing that can try one's patience more than a trip of any considerable length by wagon train or pack train through an uninhabited region, and the most amiable of our race cannot pass this ordeal entirely unscathed. Persons who are not blessed with uncommon equanimity never get through such a journey without frequent explosions of ...
— The Discovery of Yellowstone Park • Nathaniel Pitt Langford



Words linked to "Wagon train" :   caravan, covered wagon, Conestoga, Conestoga wagon, train, prairie wagon, prairie schooner, procession



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