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A sentence in Hastings' guidebook briefly describes the cutoff: The most direct route, for the California emigrants, would be to leave the Oregon route, about two hundred miles east from Fort Hall; thence bearing West Southwest, to the Salt Lake; and thence continuing down to the bay of St. Francisco, by the route just described.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 November 2024. American explorer (1819–1870) Lansford Hastings Born Lansford Warren Hastings 1819 (1819) Mount Vernon, Ohio Died 1870 (1871) (aged 51) St. Thomas, Virgin Islands Occupation(s) lawyer, writer and adventurer Known for developer of the Hastings Cutoff Spouse Charlotte Toler Lansford ...
M-179 is a 16.963-mile-long (27.299 km) state trunkline highway in the western portion of the US state of Michigan.It runs from US Highway 131 (US 131) at exit 61 outside of Bradley to M-43 just west of Hastings in the Lower Peninsula.
M-79 is an east–west state trunkline highway in the central portion of Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The western terminus is about three miles (4.8 km) southeast of Hastings at the junction with M-37 and the eastern terminus is in downtown Charlotte at the junction with M-50 and Business Loop Interstate 69 (BL I-69).
[19] [20] The fourth change in the Barry County routing was made by the next year; the highway was rerouted due northward out of Hastings along Broadway Street. [21] Around 1959, M-43 was shifted to bypass Grand Ledge. The former route through town was retained as a state highway, designated Bus. M-43. M-43 was extended from its eastern end in ...
The scenic route along 1-196 and U.S. 31 runs along Lake Michigan. You can start at the St. Joseph Benton Harbor area and drive north to Mackinaw City, passing through several west Michigan beach ...
The monument (CHL No. 441) in Burnt Wagons, California, marking the site where the group killed their oxen and burned their wagonsThe Death Valley '49ers were a group of pioneers from the Eastern United States that endured a long and difficult journey during the late 1840s California Gold Rush to prospect in the Sutter's Fort area of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada in California.
LANSING — Calls for a one-year Michigan income tax cut to be made permanent hit a dead end Friday at the Michigan Supreme Court. A spike in state revenues in 2022 triggered a provision inserted ...