Sentences with phrase «conastoga wagon train»

In 1857, a group of Mormon militia attacked a wagon train bound for California, killing more than 140 men, women and children.

Conjuring images of the old American West is not hard to do: the empty plain and the big sky, the wagon train, cowboys versus Indians, the gold - crazed forty - niner or the oil baron, probably corrupt, in search of a financial bonanza.

In Lords of the Plain, a novel about cavalry actions in Texas, Max Crawford puts these words into the mouth of the defense attorney for Comanche braves on trial for the massacre of a wagon train:

Maybe it's my wagon train roots, but I can't stand to waste anything.

Still farther to the rear are the wagon trains, artillery parks, lines of communication, supply - depots, etc..

An aeroplane operating against armies in the field would, therefore, probably use shrapnel, an explosive shell filled with hundreds of bullets and equipped with a time - fuse in such manner that it can be exploded above bodies of troops on the march, supports, reserves, wagon trains, camps, etc. shrapnel is considered one of the most effective projectiles used in modern warfare, and it does not require a military expert to imagine the havoc it would work on a body of troops en masse.

Likes to dance, ride horse likes to work cattle and trail ride and wagon train.

I have walking horses we trailride, show and wagon train i have 3 kid and thay live with me i am a father first i like the lake cookouts clean family fun looking for someone to bullcrap with go placies with and hopefully ltr be close to blaine

«Hostiles» is not your usual gunslinger / wagon train / outlaw Western.

Vehicles range in a circle like an old wagon train.

James Stewart stars as an outlaw trying to make good as a wagon train guide along the Columbia River.

Michelle Williams plays Emily, the most outspoken (yet frequently ignored) woman in a wagon train of three settler families who have hired mountain man (and possible self - mythologizing fabulist) Steven Meek (a brilliant Bruce Greenwood) to guide them through the treacherous Midwest.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

Not long after, Thomas discovers the wagon train he had left behind were overpowered by Native Americans, and that his love was killed in the massacre.

Michelle Williams and Paul Dano climb a wagon train and set off on the Oregon Trail in Kelly Reichardt's upcoming Western thriller.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Recounts Mormon Fanaticism Which Led to 19th C. Massacre On September 11, 1857, a wagon train led by Captain Alexander Fancher (Shaun Johnston) was headed for gold - rich California when it was ambushed by Mormons as it was passing through Utah.

Impressively, that comic streak continues when a man going by the name of Colquhoun (Robert Carlyle) enters camp half - frozen, spouting tales of cannibalism among his wagon train and gradually revealing darker motives beneath his veneer of victimhood.

In Meek's Cutoff, a wagon train of pioneers is lost in the parched West; in Night Moves, a group of environmental saboteurs plans a bombing; in Wendy and Lucy, a traveler faces a transportation problem on the road to somewhere.

Kelly Reichardt's minimalist Western, about a lost wagon train and the man who thinks he knows the way to safety, was one of the best films of 2010, with a strong performance from frequent Reichardt star Michelle Williams and a haunting sound design.

4:00 am (16th)-- TCM — The Man from Laramie One of several westerns that James Stewart and Anthony Mann made together, and this one is one of the most solid; in this one, Stewart is a wagon train leader who gets pulled into a territorial feud against his will when one side torches his wagons.

1:15 pm — TCM — The Man From Laramie One of several westerns that James Stewart and Anthony Mann made together, and this one is one of the most solid; in this one, Stewart is a wagon train leader who gets pulled into a territorial feud against his will when one side torches his wagons.

These pilgrims in the desert are a long way from the Promised Land and their buckskin guide of a Moses, Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood, looking like a road show Buffalo Bill), talks a good story of frontier adventure but it's clear to the three families of the tiny wagon train that his shortcut to the Willamette Valley has them lost in the desert.

Between them and their destination lies miles of rough terrain, natural barriers and swarms of threats from unfriendly wagon trains to bandits and Native American tribes that prey on unwary travellers.

Between them and their destination lie miles of rough terrain, natural barriers and swarms of threats from unfriendly wagon trains to bandits to Native American tribes that prey on unwary travellers.

12:00 N — TCM — The Man from Laramie One of several westerns that James Stewart and Anthony Mann made together, and this one is one of the most solid; in this one, Stewart is a wagon train leader who gets pulled into a territorial feud against his will when one side torches his wagons.

Weekly living - history sessions have students acting out California's history: an Ohlone hunter tracks deer and practices archery; a Spanish sailor suffers through a sea voyage; a Californio daughter embroiders a skirt hem or grinds corn; a Kentucky farmer packs up his belongings to join the wagon train.

In a crucial way, Lexus is right that the Sportcross is no wagon: With a dinky back seat and a whopping 40 percent less cargo space than the same - size Audi A4 Avant wagon, the Sportcross doesn't really belong in the wagon train.

The story of the ill - fated wagon train gets a highly detailed but never sensational treatment in this fine addition to the Donner canon.

When we hear the word «frontier,» our thoughts often turn to the wild, untamed West, full of wagon trains, cattle drives and little houses on the prairie, where rugged men and women eked out a meager existence in their search for open space, gold or simply a new life.

When Papa's feet set to wandering again, Rebecca and her family join a wagon train to Oregon.

Seventeen free - verse poems represent the points of view of fictional people traveling in a wagon train from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City in 1848.

Can anyone be blamed for the wagon train's misfortunes?

What were traveling conditions like for the wagon trains?

Years before The Gold Rush, Sutter's Fort had become world - famous as a first destination and resting place for the pioneering, trans - continental wagon trains.

Among the recent titles on the topic (both reviewed elsewhere in this issue) are Dorothy Allred Solomon's Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk, an account of growing up in a polygamous Mormon family during the 1950s and»60s, and Sally Denton's American Massacre, the story of the 1857 ambush of a wagon train at Mountain Meadows, Utah, a slaughter apparently ordered by Mormon chieftain Brigham Young.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie inspired countless children to dream of hopping on a wagon train or churning some butter.

The book has four stories about four young women all on the same wagon train going to Oregon.

When her father's unexpected death leaves the siblings orphaned, Kerry disguises herself so she and Patrick can travel on the wagon train as brothers.

After being rescued from a raided wagon train, Comfort Kennedy was raised by ex-soldiers who ultimately became successful bankers.

I have always liked the era of homesteaders, wagon trains, good guys vs. the bad guys.

That first novel was about a wagon train which came over the Sierras, got lost, caught in the snow, split apart, came within an inch of starvation — and weren't the Donner party.

After meeting the wagon train's scout, the meaning of a fresh start may be more than she ever imagined.

when the info about the jerky treats made in china came out i think in 2007, i called and actually spoke to someone at wagon train and they assured my that their products were never made in china.

HE WAS USING WAGON TRAIN [gregkg's spelling of the treat]!

just in the past month though, we refilled our stock of the wagon train jerky treats at sam's and just one treat gave them horrible diarrhea.

what is wagon train thinking?

i'm finally researching to see if anyone else was starting to have problems with the wagon train jerky treats, and i see all this.

Also was concerned about the wagon train chicken jerky from China.

He has even been on an all day wagon train and did great!

I suspected my dog's death may have been related to the wagon train dog treats and I never fed my other dogs any food that was made in China.