: a column of wagons (as of supplies for a group of settlers) traveling overland
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In 1852, a wagon train to Van Buren delivered apples to be sent by boat to Little Rock.—arkansasonline.com, 23 Nov. 2024 His grandparents had come to California on wagon trains in the 1850s from Pennsylvania and New York.—Jake Whitney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024 James meets rough-and-ready cowboy Shea Brennan (Sam Elliott) upon arrival in Fort Worth and joins his wagon train heading West.—Rendy Jones, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2024 Four young Paiute Indians from Utah, who had come west with a wagon train, became involved in a tit-for-tat skirmish with some local cowboys that resulted in several deaths and, according to local historians, the Piutes burning a sawmill.—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for wagon train
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