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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FDO_the-hastings-cutoff_West-Wendover-NV.html
In 1846, Lansford W. Hastings led a group of about 60 emigrant wagons on a route that diverged from the California Trail near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. After encountering almost impassable difficulties getting through the Wasatch Mountains via Weber …
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Imagine Lake Bonneville some 10,000 years ago as a vast lake larger than the present Great Salt Lake. Its eastern boundary would be the Wasatch Mountains at Salt Lake City and its western boundary the Toano and Goshute Mountains to your left. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AB4_can-anything-survive-here_West-Wendover-NV.html
Summer temperatures in this high desert can exceed 100 degrees; winter temperatures may fall below zero. Rain and snowfall total a mere six to eight inches per year. Only drought tolerant plants such as Indian ricegrass, shadscale, and greasewood …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19ZZ_tough-traveling-in-the-desert_West-Wendover-NV.html
The Bidwell-Bartleson wagon train was the first emigrant party to see Pilot Peak in 1841. Four years later, Captain John c. Fremont also saw this distinctive landmark, but from the Cedar Range in Utah - some 75 miles away. He wanted to establish a…
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The high, symmetrically shaped mountain seen rising to the north is Pilot Peak. In the period 1845-1850, it was a famous landmark and symbol of hope and relief to the Reed-Donner party and all other wagon train pioneers who traveled the 70-odd dea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7X_wendover-will-reclaims-skyline-once-again_West-Wendover-NV.html
Wendover Will has been greeting travelers to Wendover since 1952. His name comes from the founder of the State Line Hotel & Casino, Mr. William "Bill" Smith, who started the State Line Service, a cobble stone service station, on the Utah/Nevada bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6D_509th-composite-group-first-atomic-bombardment_West-Wendover-NV.html
"The Atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world ... we pray that (God) may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes."—President Harry S. Truman, August, 1945. In Memory. This monument is dedicated to the member…
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