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Overland 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.


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95 Paperback F591 Eight firsthand accounts of women who braved the overland trails during the great 19th-century westward migration are collected here.
But every time I was at my lowest ebb the overland trail rewarded my patience and virtue.
Next came Military Roads and eventually the Overland Trails System.
 
 
 
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