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California-bound

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  • As we were breaking camp, with several other California-bound parties, the Oregon folk were already setting out, and there was great badinage and cheering and singing as they got under way.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Still, Novak says, Romney's candidacy could be hurt by the release of a new movie, September Dawn, about a shameful episode that took place in 1857, when Mormons in the Utah Territory slaughtered more than 120 California-bound settlers.

    RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • Notes: Southern California-bound Daniels was just three-quarters of an inch shy of the triple jump record she set last year and became the first high schooler to surpass 45 feet (45-7 1/2 wind-aided) under any conditions.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • A group of Mormons, aided by Native Americans, massacred 120 unarmed people in a California-bound wagon train.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007

  • Also, since I was working I had to miss the "luncheon" for our California-bound friends.

    spectre12 Diary Entry spectre12 2005

  • Uncle Elwood told me he had stood on the roof of the old stable to watch the California-bound train make its way north on the east bank of the Hudson River, the train I had been on with Aunt Jessie.

    Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

  • There too they met the legendary mountain man and guide Kit Carson, who had brought on a drove of mules from Taos, New Mexico, to sell to California-bound parties.

    Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

  • There too they met the legendary mountain man and guide Kit Carson, who had brought on a drove of mules from Taos, New Mexico, to sell to California-bound parties.

    Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

  • The militia, perhaps in a generalized mood of revenge after persecution of Mormons in Arkansas and elsewhere, convinced these California-bound Arkansans to lay down their weapons with promises of friendship, then attacked.

    Mountain Meadows Massacre 1999

  • As we were breaking camp, with several other California-bound parties, the Oregon folk were already setting out, and there was great badinage and cheering and singing as they got under way.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

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