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The California Trail came into heavy use after the California Gold Rush enticed over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to travel overland the gold fields and rich farmlands of California during the 1840s and 1850s. Today, over 1,000 miles of trail ruts and traces can still be seen in the vast undeveloped lands between Casper, Wyoming, and the ...
Boston Post Road or King's Highway First ride to lay out Post Road January 1, 1673. [2] San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line (1857–1861) San Antonio, Texas to San Diego, California; Butterfield Overland Stage Route (1858–1861) St. Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California; Pony Express Route (1860–1862) Saint Joseph, Missouri, to ...
The road from St. Louis to Springfield to Ft. Smith was known as Telegraph Road or Wire Road, later Old Wire Road. 28 August 1860: Line from St. Joseph, Missouri, constructed by W.H. Stebbins, reaches Brownville, Nebraska, and communications commence the next day. [95] 29 August 1860: Line reaches St. Paul, Minnesota. [90] [96]
The non-Indian population of California in 1840 was about 8,000, as confirmed by the California 1850 U.S. census, which asked everyone their place of birth. The Indian population is unknown but has been variously estimated at 30,000 to 150,000 in 1840.
Barclay was a British-born frontiersman of the American West. After working in St. Louis as a bookkeeper and clerk, he worked at Bent's Old Fort. He then ventured westward where he was a trapper, hunter, and trader. [1] Beckwourth, Jim: 1798–1866 1824–1866 United States Bent, Charles: 1799–1847 1828–1846 United States Bent, William
This made Saint Paul a gateway to the Upper Midwest for settlers heading westbound to the Minnesota frontier or the Dakota Territory. In 1858, more than 1,000 steamboats unloaded cargo and passengers at Saint Paul. [4] The Saint Anthony Trail, a cart and wagon road, led from Saint Paul to the Red River valley.
In 1848 when the Minnesota Territory was formed there were four major "white" settlements: Saint Paul, Saint Anthony (part of modern Minneapolis), Stillwater, and Pembina (now part of North Dakota). [84] New settlements began to appear more rapidly. Mankato was established in 1852 by entrepreneurs Jackson, Johnson, and Williams. [104]
September 14 – Joseph Smith Sr., 1st Presiding Patriarch of the Latter Day Saint movement (born 1771) September 18 – Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, French polymath (born 1783 in the Ottoman Empire) June 14 – Anson Brown, lawyer and U.S. Representative from New York from 1839 to 1840 (born 1800)