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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.
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.After it was established, the first half of the California Trail followed the same corridor of networked river valley trails as the Oregon Trail and the ...
Explore the California trail to follow in the footsteps of over 250,000 emigrants who traveled to the gold fields and rich farmlands of California during the 1840s and 1850s-the greatest mass migration in American history.
This is an interactive tour map of the California Trail that allows students to click on important points from Independence, Missouri, to Sutter's Fort, California.
There are too many trails, cutoffs, short cuts, stage routes, and military roads out here in the west to list them all. We will however endeavor to list and describe the main westward trails with our focus being on the early emigrant trails and roads.
80 wagons of late-starting emigrants to try this new cutof across the Great Salt Lake Desert. The last of them was the ill-fated Donner-Reed party. In 1846 a party from the Willamette Valley opened a southern route to Oregon, now known as the Applegate Trail. Peter Lassen branched south from this route in 1848 to reach his
23 kwi 1999 · These are markers about the Pony Express found along the trail that ran from Sacramento, California to St. Joseph, Missouri.
