bridle trail

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They were following a well-defined bridle trail and scarcely slackened their pace as they splashed in and out of the water where the trail crossed and recrossed the creek.

From The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

It heads of its own accord up the bridle trail to the ranger's house, in this case 9,000 feet above sea level, 1,000 feet above ordinary cloud line.

From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Here he saw her run along the bridle trail marked by one notch and one blaze: then, she was swinging over moraine slopes to the fifth bench of the trail.

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Both parties broke camp at the same hour on the last day of June, they taking the bridle trail to the right, and we turning to the left across the ridge to Fort Laramie.

From The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner

Close to the boundary, shift was made from canoe to pack horse, and, leaving the Columbia, the brigade struck up the Okanogan Valley to Kamloops, bound for the bridle trail up Fraser River.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)