DCHP-1 Online
poor man's route Placer Mining, Hist. 
a route to a goldfield that is safe and cheap for stampeders (def. 1).
See also: stampeder (def. 1)
- 1897 It is not only a "poor man's route," but a really good cattle road, and in my opinion a route by which prospectors or miners who wish to pass their own freight through can use to great advantage.
- 1900 Though some of these routes are practicable enough, and may be justly called "poor man's trails," owing to the abundance of fish and game in the country through which they pass, their great length is against them.
- 1952 "Edmonton," chorused the boosters, "The Poor Man's Route to The Yukon!"
- 1897 It is not only a "poor man's route," but a really good cattle road, and in my opinion a route by which prospectors or miners who wish to pass their own freight through can use to great advantage.