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Costner shared footage from both parts which featured wagon trains, Union troops, feuding ranchers, gunfights, tight-lipped lawmen, steely frontier women and sweeping vistas.
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Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
In the movie, Belafonte and Poitier’s characters form an alliance with Native Americans to lead a wagon train of formerly enslaved people through Native territory.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
For the uninitiated, the longtime lovebirds played James and Margaret Dutton, a husband-and-wife duo that joins a wagon train to make the arduous journey West, in the hit Yellowstone prequel.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2024
The Harris family arrived in Missouri after traveling in a wagon train from Virginia in 1830.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
At the turn of the 20th century, the oasis town became a rest area for wagon trains and a stop on the new railroad connecting Los Angeles and Salt Lake City.
—Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
Stephens is noted for being the captain of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844, the first successful wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada, two years before the infamous Donner Party.
—Lisa Thorn, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
After a gang of ne’er-do-wells retaliated to Claire’s scorn by shooting several members of the wagon train, including Mary Abel, Claire died by suicide beside her daughter’s grave.
—Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
In the movie, Belafonte and Poitier’s characters form an alliance with Native Americans to lead a wagon train of formerly enslaved people through Native territory.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
For the uninitiated, the longtime lovebirds played James and Margaret Dutton, a husband-and-wife duo that joins a wagon train to make the arduous journey West, in the hit Yellowstone prequel.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2024
The Harris family arrived in Missouri after traveling in a wagon train from Virginia in 1830.
—Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
At the turn of the 20th century, the oasis town became a rest area for wagon trains and a stop on the new railroad connecting Los Angeles and Salt Lake City.
—Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
Stephens is noted for being the captain of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party in 1844, the first successful wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada, two years before the infamous Donner Party.
—Lisa Thorn, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
After a gang of ne’er-do-wells retaliated to Claire’s scorn by shooting several members of the wagon train, including Mary Abel, Claire died by suicide beside her daughter’s grave.
—Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
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“Wagon train.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wagon%20train. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
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