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O⋅ver⋅land Trail

[oh-ver-land, -luhnd]
–noun U.S. History.
any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.
Compare Oregon Trail.
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Overland Trail  
Any of several trails, such as the Oregon Trail or the Santa Fe Trail, of westward migration in the United States. The term is sometimes used to refer collectively to all the overland migration routes from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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