DCHP-1 Online
make tracks (for) † 
leave; start out (for a place), usually in haste.
- 1849 . . . we divided the baggage, and each carrying a portion . . . we "made tracks" for Horse-shoe Lake.
- 1873 At length I tired of my continued rise and fall, and, gold being found at Carriboo, I made tracks for that land of promise, determining to drop speculation.
- 1953 "If I'm to get there on time, I'll have to make tracks, won't I?"
- 1849 . . . we divided the baggage, and each carrying a portion . . . we "made tracks" for Horse-shoe Lake.