Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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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Examples
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Our teamsters who had been through by the Overland Trail said that the Bitter Creek desert was yet worse: drier, barer, dustier and uglier.
Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911
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Beginning this fall, the $389,000 project will install street lighting along Stroop Road from Overland Trail to Far Hills Boulevard and will install decorative sidewalk along one block just west of Far Hills.
daytondailynews.com - News kmccall@coxohio.com 2010
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Beginning this fall, the $389,000 project will install street lighting along Stroop Road from Overland Trail to Far Hills Boulevard and will install decorative sidewalk along one block just west of Far Hills.
daytondailynews.com - News kmccall@coxohio.com 2010
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Waste Management currently serves about 900 of the 6,500 households in the proposed district, which would be bordered by College Avenue, the Poudre River, Overland Trail and Prospect Road.
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If the City Council approves the contract, the company would provide exclusive trash and recycling pick-up services to 6,500 households in an area bordered by College Avenue, the Poudre River, Overland Trail and Prospect Road.
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- The Donner Summit Bridge was constructed in 1926 and featured a bronze relief plaque dedicating this structure "to the pioneers who blazed the Overland Trail through these mountains."
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The proposed district's boundary would be Prospect Road on the south, College Avenue on the east, the Poudre River on the north and Overland Trail on the west.
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Roads that have kept their names include Bingham Hill Road, Overland Trail and the Flowers Road.
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Waterfowl and small-game hunting at Bravo, Jackson Lake and Overland Trail will be permitted only on Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, and reservations are required.
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Highway, the Overland Trail and the Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean
Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information Lilyan Stratton
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