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Overland Trail

[ oh-ver-land, -luhnd ]

noun

, U.S. History.
  1. any of various routes traveled by settlers from the Missouri River to Oregon and California beginning in the 1840s.


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Example Sentences

Yet reaching the end of the Overland Trail did not mean that our pioneer struggles were over.

There was an undercurrent of gladness in their souls with the thought that they had achieved the end of the Overland Trail.

I couldn't have been more uncomfortable if I'd been a young man I saw twenty-five years ago on the old overland trail.

Then we left the ice and hit the overland trail in an almost due northerly direction.

The passing of the rapids by the overland trail was all that their host had promised.

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