See quotation.
1833. A trail, by the way, I must tell you, is an Indian footpath, that has been travelled perhaps for centuries, and bears the same relation to an ordinary road that a turnpike does to a railroad in your state.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘A Winter in the Far West,’ i. 152 (Lond., 1835).
a. 1860. See TOUGH IT.
