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Fort Hall was a fort in the Western United States that was built in 1834 as a fur trading post by Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth.It was located on the Snake River in the eastern Oregon Country, now part of present-day Bannock County in southeastern Idaho.
The trail then proceeded almost due west to meet the main trail at Fort Hall; alternately, a branch trail headed almost due south to meet the main trail near the present town of Soda Springs, Idaho. [21] [22] Numerous landmarks are located along the trail in Wyoming including Independence Rock, Ayres Natural Bridge and Register Cliff.
The trail then proceeded almost due west to meet the main trail at Fort Hall; alternatively, a branch trail headed almost due south to meet the main trail near the present town of Soda Springs. [63] [64] Numerous landmarks are along the trail in Wyoming including Independence Rock, Ayres Natural Bridge, and Register Cliff.
The cutoff left the trail near Fort Hall, crossed the Snake River Plain to the Lost River, and then turned west to the area of Boise, crossing Camas Prairie. It rejoined the main trail from Ditto Creek to Boise, then ran to the north of the main trail, crossing the Snake River into Oregon at Brownlee's Ferry.
Own work based on: Fort Hall Location Map.svg. Shaded relief: Tom Patterson; State and territory borders: National Historical Geographic Information System; Trail routes: National Park Services California Trail map and Oregon Trail map; Author: Tentotwo; Johannes Kalliauer: Permission (Reusing this file) Fort Hall Location Map.svg: SVG development
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.
Emigrants marked their path on this juniper limb, found southeast of present-day Redmond, Oregon.The limb is now on display in the Deschutes County Museum. Meek Cutoff was a horse trail road that branched off the Oregon Trail in northeastern Oregon and was used as an alternate emigrant route to the Willamette Valley in the mid-19th century.
Harris often led pioneers west from Fort Hall in Idaho to northern Nevada, California and Oregon. To do so, he helped find better routes across the Cascade Mountains. [2] Fort Hall was initially established by American fur traders, but it was sold to the North West Fur Company by 1841. Harris wrote to Thornton Grimsley of his concern that the ...