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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZF_the-river-route_Gering-NE.html
In the 1840's and 50's, thousands of pioneers followed the shallow Platte and North Platte Rivers across the plains on their way to Oregon and California. Covered wagons passed Scotts Bluff on both sides of the river.Emigrants could not lead their…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZC_the-way-west_Gering-NE.html
Only a few of the pioneers who reached Scotts Bluff scaled the cliffs to witness this aerial view of the country ahead. The wagons had to keep rolling to reach Oregon or California before cold weather set in.Ft. Mitchell, the next stop on the trai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZ2_pony-express_Gering-NE.html
Go back in time to 1860 or 1861 and picture the traffic on the Oregon Trail - the freight wagons and stagecoaches, and the emigrants, soldiers, and Indians. But most colorful, perhaps, was the Pony Express rider streaking through Scotts Bluff.Mark…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MYZ_scotts-bluff_Gering-NE.html
You are standing on the northern section of Scotts Bluff, looking across to the southern section. On the horizon the Wildcat Hills stretch far to the east (left). Below, the route of the Oregon Trail cuts through Mitchell Pass. A few traces of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MYT_the-overland-experience_Gering-NE.html
To your left, vast flatlands extend eastward - for hundreds of miles. In the mid-1800's this expansive, semi-arid grassland was known as "The Great American Desert." For early travelers it was an unfamiliar, often inhospitable landscape.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MYO_traces-of-the-trail_Gering-NE.html
Out on the prairie, wagons following the Oregon Trail spread out to avoid the dust stirred up by wagons in front. But here at Mitchell Pass the emigrants encountered a difficult bottleneck where wagons had to squeeze through narrow ravines in sing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MYM_the-bullwackers_Gering-NE.html
After the great migrations of settlers and goldseekers passed here in the 1840's and 50's, the Oregon Trail remained an important communications and supply route. Wagon trains hauled provisions to Ft. Laramie and other army posts west of here. The…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MXB_oregon-trail_Gering-NE.html
Scotts Bluff, the dramatic series of clay and sandstone highlands surrounding you, is known chiefly as a landmark on the old Oregon Trail. Emigrants heading west encountered the bluffs after a six to eight-week trek across the monotonously flat gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MWY_scotts-bluff_Gering-NE.html
The sight of Scotts Bluff thrilled emigrants journeying west on the Oregon Trail. After weeks of plodding across the wild and expansive plains, they were confronted by this massive promontory rising some 800 feet above the valley floor. The clay a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MKY_the-road-to-zion_Scottsbluff-NE.html
From the late 1840s through the 1860s, an exodus of more than 70,000 Mormons passed by here on their way to their "New Zion" in Utah. Starting from Nauvoo, Illinois in February 1846, the first group of at least 13,000 Mormons crossed int…