Historical Marker Series

California Trail

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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1UMF_we-made-it-the-end-of-the-great-basin-historical_Minden-NV.html
You're now standing at the western edge of the Great Basin. If you were an emigrant headed to California, you would have entered the Great Basin 450 miles back along the trail in southern Idaho, or 500 miles back in Salt Lake City if you had taken the Hasti…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1UNF_about-your-journey-historical_Minden-NV.html
Whichever direction your travels take you, you're going to have a similar experience to what the California-bound immigrants had. You're going to see the same country, except for the towns and ranch meadows. The big difference, though, is that you'll be tra…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1VGU_two-ways-west-from-westport-historical_Overland-Park-KS.html
Imagine seeing Santa Fe Trail wagon trains coursing through Overland Park! Around you swirls the sights and sounds of wagons creaking, oxen braying, and wagon masters shouting commands. You are standing between two historic branches of the Santa Fe Trail, a…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1W45_opening-the-floodgates-historical_Overland-Park-KS.html
[Inset] "from 'Sappling Grove' where there is an excellent fountain spring & a very good place to camp.. The road runs a little round on the high ridge." The Santa Fe Trail began in 1821 when William Becknell and a small group of men from Franklin, Missou…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1W4N_two-routes-from-westport-historical_Overland-Park-KS.html
The Santa Fe Trail forked into two routes as it headed south from Westport. Along the routes were campgrounds for trail travelers — to the northeast of the junction was Sapling Grove and the southwest was a campground called Flat Rock or Indian Creek.…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1W4P_voices-from-the-trail-historical_Overland-Park-KS.html
The Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails proved to be both challenging and exhilarating for the travelers in the caravans passing through this junction along one of the Westport routes. Letters and diaries are filled with adventures and excitement, as we…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM1ZJV_the-donner-reed-party_Wendover-UT.html
passed this way on the 2nd of September 1846, having lost 36 oxen, several wagons, and suffered much. "Don't look for SHORT-CUTS"
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2150_the-plum-creek-massacre-a-war-memorial_Bertrand-NE.html
On the morning of August 8, 1864, a war party of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians attacked a Denver-bound freight wagon train killing thirteen men and taking captive Nancy Jane Morton of Sidney, Iowa, and nine-year old Daniel Marble of Council Bluffs, Iowa. …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2BOS_california-trail-raft-river-valley_Declo-ID.html
"We traveled up Raft River 16 miles. The road, water and grass, good. Entirely destitute of timber, except a little willow on the streams and the wild sage." — Chester Ingersoll, Aug 13, 1847 Guidebook Available Trails West Inc. P.O. Box 12045, Re…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM2BOT_california-trail-raft-river-recrossing_Declo-ID.html
"Arrived at Raft River, crossed and nooned. ... traveled five miles up Raft River and camped after recrossing it. Grass in abundance and plenty of wood" — Cyrus Loveland, Aug 3 1850 Guidebook Available Trails West Inc. P.O. Box 12045, Reno NV 89510
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