(US, historical, sometimes, derogatory) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.
(US, historical, sometimes, derogatory) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.
Although no subsequent year matched this high percentage of returnees, disconsolate "gobacks" remained a permanent feature of the overland emigrations
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(beekeeping) A section of honeycomb that is unfinished and returned to the hive.
How many turned around and headed for wherever they came from is not known, but these "gobacks" or "turnarounds," as many emigrants called them, often complained that there was either little or no grass for their animals or that there wa…
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