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  2. California Trail - Wikipedia

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    From Fort Hall the Oregon and California trails went about 50 miles (80 km) southwest along the Snake River Valley to another "parting of the ways" trail junction at the junction of the Raft and Snake rivers. The California Trail from the junction followed the Raft River to the City of Rocks in Idaho near the present Nevada-Idaho-Utah tripoint ...

  3. Nobles Emigrant Trail - Wikipedia

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    The trail has two California Historical Landmark markers: #675 marks a stopping place along the Noble Emigrant Trail that William Nobles established near the present-day city of Susanville, [2] while #677 marks the spot where Peter Lassen first saw Honey Lake on October 4, 1850, while on his search for "Gold Lake".

  4. Westward expansion trails - Wikipedia

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    The Old Spanish Trail from Santa Fe, in Mexican New Mexico Territory to Los Angeles, in Mexican Alta California, developed in 1829–1830 to support the trade of New Mexican wool products for California horses and mules and carried parties of fur traders and emigrants from New Mexico to Southern California. Following the trails pioneered by fur ...

  5. Historic trails and roads in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Albany Post Road, in use by 1642, from Bowling Green (New York City) to Albany, called "Broadway" for long stretches; Bozeman Trail from Virginia City, Montana, to central Wyoming; California Road established 1849, from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to California; California Trail from Missouri to California.

  6. Hastings Cutoff - Wikipedia

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    Hastings led a small party overland late in 1845 and spent the winter in California. Significantly, his stay at Sutter's Fort coincided with a visit by John C. Frémont, who had just explored the Great Salt Lake Desert and whose letter describing a new route to California would be widely published in Eastern newspapers.

  7. Southern Emigrant Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Southern Emigrant Trail should not be confused with the Applegate Trail, which is part of the Northern Emigrant Trails. The Southern Emigrant Trail , also known as the Gila Trail , the Kearny Trail , the Southern Trail and the Butterfield Stage Trail , was a major land route for immigration into California from the eastern United States ...

  8. History of the mapping of California - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after statehood, the California state government appointed its first State Geologist and began commissioning geologic surveys of its own. The state appointed John B. Trask to the position of State Geologist, and he served from 1850 to 1856. He compiled a report titled "On the Geology of the Sierra Nevada, or California Range."

  9. California gold rush - Wikipedia

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    New York, 1849. from raremaps.com accessed October 4, 2018. Lawson's map of the Gold Regions is the first map to accurately depict California's Gold Regions. Issued in January 1849, at the beginning of the California gold rush, Lawson's map was produced specifically for prospectors and miners.