He joined an emigrant train heading west and arrived in Oregon's Willamette Valley in the spring of 1845.

With the discovery of gold in California, many emigrant trains headed west to seek their fortunes.

An emigrant train had been wiped out.

- What it is to be ill in an emigrant train let those declare who know.

At St. Joseph, Missouri, he joined one of the early California-bound emigrant trains, and was given the post of train-master.

On the summit we overtook an emigrant train of many wagons, many tired men and women, and many a disgusted sheep and cow.

Lakota and other bands attacked settlers and even emigrant trains, causing public pressure on the US Army to punish the hostiles.

For haste is not the foible of an emigrant train.

The Baker-Fancher train was one of several emigrant trains traveling through the area on their way to California at the time.

The emigrant train would spend almost as much time on sidings, being passed by fast freights and passenger trains, as it did moving.