Overland Trail
, any of several trails of W migration in the
U.S. The term is sometimes used to mean all the trails W from the
Missouri to the Pacific and sometimes for the central trails only.
Particularly, the term has been applied to a S alternate route of the
Oregon Trail. It branched from the parent trail at the
junction of the North Platte and South Platte rivers and followed the
South Platte to present Julesburg, Colo., where it left the river and W
overland to the North Platte, rejoining the parent trail east of Fort
Laramie, Wyo. The term is also particularly applied to a route to
Calif. that went W from Fort Bridger to the Great Salt L. (thus
duplicating in part the Mormon Trail), then on to Sutter's Fort in
Calif.; it was much used by immigrants bound for Calif.
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