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Short title: CALImap1; Date and time of digitizing: 11:57, 18 May 2015: File change date and time: 11:57, 18 May 2015: Software used: Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 (Macintosh)
The Hudspeth Cutoff and the Salt Lake Cutoff all rejoined the California Trail near the City of Rocks (For maps see NPS map California Trail: [86]). The trail then continued west over 7,100 feet (2,200 m) Granite Pass, which involved a steep, treacherous descent. West of Granite Pass, the trail was in the Great Basin drainage.
Samuel J. Hensley, returning to California in the summer of 1848, led a pack train of ten men on a quest to get back to the California Trail. After trying Hastings Route south of the Great Salt Lake and finding the salt flats too soft (heavy rains that year) for passage he returned to Salt Lake City and discovered a route, north of the Great Salt Lake.
California Trail Back Country Byway: Nevada: 96 154 CR 761 and US 93 near Jackpot; CR 765 and US 93 near Wilkins: CR 762 near the Utah border Follows sections of the California National Historic Trail, an overland pioneer route used by western settlers and emigrants in the 19th century. Features include historic ruins, wagon wheel ruts, natural ...
Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los ...
The Southern Emigrant Trail was a major land route for immigration into California from the eastern United States that followed the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico during the California Gold Rush. Unlike the more northern routes, pioneer wagons could travel this route year-round, as the mountain passes were not blocked by snows.
A northern route was usually called the California Trail. [1] Map of Marcy's Itineraries. Note the northern and southern 1849 trails through Texas. [2] The California Road followed the route laid out by Captain Randolph B. Marcy escorting gold seekers during the spring of 1849.
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