: a column of wagons (as of supplies for a group of settlers) traveling overland
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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 However, there’s a prominent English couple set apart from the rest of the wagon train: prissy school teacher Juliet Chesney (Ella Hunt) and Hugh (Tom Payne).—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 29 June 2024 The movie introduces several storylines, featuring Costner as a lone cowboy helping a woman (Abbey Lee) in need, Sienna Miller as the survivor of a town massacre, Luke Wilson as the leader of a wagon train and more.—Zack Sharf, Variety, 1 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for wagon train
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