Sentence examples for wagon route from inspiring English sources
John Macomb, who was sent through the area by the army in 1859 to find a new wagon route from New Mexico.
Until the early 20th century, Las Vegas was isolated from other population centres and was connected to Los Angeles and Salt Lake City by only a wagon route that required weeks to traverse.
The 400-mile (650-kilometre) Cariboo Road from Yale at the head of navigation of the Fraser River to Barkerville was the major wagon route in the 1860s to the gold-mining region; it is now rebuilt and much extended.
Los Angeles to Park City is about 692 miles by the old wagon route, though most visitors seem to come by air through Salt Lake City — many by private jet.
Until the trail's development as a wagon route, however, people of European descent (whites) in eastern North America who wished to travel to California or Oregon generally went by ship around the southern tip of South America, an arduous and often harrowing sea journey that could take nearly a year to complete.
Among the challenges faced by the wagon route operators were crossing rivers, mountains and hostile Native Americans.
Invoking the Antiquities Act of 1906, Clinton declared the new monument to be the "smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected" — objects, in this case, including fossilized crocodilians, ancient petroglyphs, Mormon wagon routes, and a maze of remote and unutterably beautiful red-rock canyons.
Work in the shunting yards used to be easier to coordinate when wagon routes could be derived from their destinations.
Raynolds also located suitable wagon routes in the Bighorn Basin and was able to help narrow down the most appropriate routes for a future transcontinental railroad.
During the initial settlement period of the Niagara area, following the American Revolutionary War, new wagon routes were built over native footpaths.
Temporary overland stage and wagon routes were set up to bypass inoperable sections of the railroad as repairs were made and provided for the transportation of goods and passengers.
