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California Trail. The California Trail led to the gold fields. The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about 1,600 mi (2,600 km) across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California.
The call of California was irresistible—health, cheap and fertile land, and a paradise without cyclones or blizzards. (Poster, California Cornucopia of the World, 1883 poster, advertises 43,795,000 Acres of Government Lands) Huntington Library.
Enjoy your photo tour of the California Trail from the Raft River to the Humboldt Sink. A PHOTO TOUR OF THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL. PARTING OF THE WAYS OF THE TRAILS—MARKER C-1. Near the base of the flat-top hill in the background, the California Trail left the Oregon Trail and headed south up the Raft River valley.
1 sie 2024 · West of South Pass travelers could go several ways: to Idaho and the Raft River area, where the main branch of the California Trail separated from the Oregon Trail; or to Utah and the settlements of the Latter-day Saints, Mormons, which were popular way stations.
12 sie 2024 · Includes California Trail maps, photos, site descriptions, and diary quotations. For an index of overland trail documents see www.paper-trail.org/search.asp. Trails West, Marking the Emigrant Trails to California at http://emigranttrailswest.org/virtual-tour/california-trail/ (accessed 1 August 2011). Lots of images of various routes over the ...
20 maj 2024 · The National Park Service Geographic Resources Program hosts an interactive trails map viewer. Choose the California National Historic Trail and then zoom in to find the details you need for trip planning.
The American Discovery Trail enters California on the Tahoe Rim Trail on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains at about 9000 feet. Lake Tahoe lies a few miles to the south and its magnificence can occasionally be seen from the trail.
