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| Circle Up: What the wagons did to protect themselves from attack. |
| Galvanized Yankee: Confederate soldiers during the Civil War who volunteered to serve with the Union Army on the Western frontier rather than go to a POW camp. |
| Greenhorn: An inexperienced traveler. |
| Grub: Food |
| Ramrod: The wagon train second-in-command. Usually in charge of keeping the train moving at a steady pace. |
| Tenderfoot: A greenhorn. |
| Tinhorn: Someone pretending to be important who actually is not. |
| Wagonmaster: The leader of the wagon train. |
| Wagons Ho: Command from the wagonmaster for the wagons to begin moving. |