who made the route that the donner party took
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Lansford Hastings Hastings told people the desert was only 40 miles across and that they would find water after 24 hours. It was in fact 82 miles wide and water was only to be found after 48 hours of travelling. Hastings told the Donner Party that three wagon trains had already opted for this route. As they had made poor time the Donner Party decided to take the risk of taking the Hastings Cutoff. The Donner Party was the worst disaster in wagon train history. Forty-two emigrants and two Indian guides had died. However, the remaining forty-seven travellers survived.
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The Tragic Story of the Donner Party The Tragic Story of the Donner Party “My father, with tears in his eyes, tried to smile as one friend after another grasped his hand in a last farewell. Mama was overcome with grief.
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California Trail The Lander Road, located further north than the main trail to Fort Hall, also bypassed Fort Bridger and was about 85 miles (137 km) shorter to Fort Hall. It was built under the supervision of Frederick W. Lander by federal contractors in 1858—one of the first federally sponsored roads in the west.
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- The Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Association is proud to offer this book that tells, for the first time in such detail, the very significant part played in our nation’s history by the pioneer settlers of the western frontier during the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
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- Gen. George Crook’s Troops in 1872 began construction of a trail connecting Prescott’s Fort Whipple to the west with Fort Apache, a feat of amazing grit at a time when the Rim rated as wild as any place in the Territory. His trail later became the third major road built in northern Arizona.
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- The culprit was snow. As the Donner Party approached the summit of the Sierra Mountains near what is now Donner Lake (known as Truckee Lake at the time) they found the pass clogged with new-fallen snow up to six feet deep. It was October 28, 1846 and the Sierra snows had started a month earlier than usual.
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Oregon Trail From about 1811-1840 the Oregon Trail was laid down by traders and fur trappers. It could only be traveled by horseback or on foot. By the year 1836, the first of the migrant train of wagons was put together. It started in Independence, Missouri and traveled a cleared trail that reached to Fort Hall, Idaho.
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Colter the Mountain Man Colter's Circuit Through Crow Country. Lisa sent four men out in different directions during the winter of 1807-1808 to acquaint area Indians with his new post—the young mountain man Edward Rose (c. 1786-c.1823), and Lewis and Clark Expedition veterans Weiser, Drouillard, and John Colter.
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Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail In 1775 Daniel Boone took a party of 30 ax men from what is today Scott County and blazed a frontier pathway from the Holston Valley through Moccasin Gap across southwest Virginia to Kentucky. Following the Great Warriors Path of Athawominee, as it was called by Indians, the trail Boone marked was to become the first gateway to the west.
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The Wilderness Trail At the Long Island trading grounds in what is now Kingsport, TN, a well-known woodsman named Daniel Boone was waiting for word from the land company that the purchase had been accomplished so that he could immediately leave to blaze—mark—a trail for others to follow into the land that had just been purchased.
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California Trail The California Trail forked about four miles south of the wells. The left branch was the Carson Trail, opened in 1848, and the right branch was the Truckee Trail opened in 1844.
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- It is to be 1600 feet in length, and the work will be prosecuted night and day until completed.” October 14, 1865 Placer Herald (Auburn) The first American transcontinental railroad crosses Donner Pass at an elevation of 7,000 feet, through an area that gets an average of 34 feet of snow a year.
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- General Sumner led the Sixth, Third, and Ninth Cavalry and the Rough Riders down the trail, with instructions for the First and Tenth to follow. The trail, virgin as yet from the foot of an American soldier, was as wide as its narrowest part, which was some ten feet across.
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What is an EXD File? A file with the EXD file extension is a Control Information Cache file. Microsoft Office programs build EXD files automatically when an ActiveX control has been inserted into a document. The EXD file is just a temporary file with the single purpose of speeding up the process of adding controls into the document, like option buttons and text boxes.
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The Origin of the Grand Canyon In 1883, Hance became the first white settler in the Grand Canyon. He was one of the canyon’s most colorful personalities, tour guides, and explorers. Children loved John Hance, and to them he always explained how the canyon came into being.
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Travels with Charley Travels with Charley. Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle, Charley.
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Since 2003Why am I seeing the old web design?Legends of AmericaTip JarHomeWhats NewAbout Us - ContactNewsletterAmerican HistoryDiscovery & ExplorationExplorers & TradersOverland TrailsSpanish ExplorationMoreEarly AmericaHistoric PeopleNative AmericansHeroes & LeadersIndian WarsMyths & LegendsNotable Native AmericansTribesMore ...Old WestFeuds & Range WarsFrontier TrailsFur TradeMiningPeopleRailroadsTreasure TalesWestward ExpansionVicesMore ...20th CenturyWar & MilitaryMore ...DestinationsStatesByways & TrailsGhost TownsNational ParksQuirky RoadsideRoute 66Travel InformationMore ...Legends-LoreGhosts & ParanormalLost TreasuresNative American LegendsMysteriesMore ...Legends StoreAmericanaNative AmericanOld WestRoute 66Books & MapsPostcardsPosters & Wall ArtT-Shirts & MoreMore ...Legends PhotosStates & PlacesRoute 66Old WestNative AmericanGhost TownsVideosMore ...SocialFacebookFB - Legends of AmericaFB - Ghost TownsFB- Legends StoreFB - Native AmericansFB - Legends' Photo PrintsGuestbookNewsletter-MailPhoto BlogPinterestTwitterYouTubeContact & About UsLegends Blog (2004-14) Johnnie - The story of Johnnie begins with the Lost Breyfogle Mine.. This tale begins in 1863 when a prospector by the name of Joshua Breyfogle brought a very rich piece of ore into the mining center of Austin, Nevada in 1863.
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California Trail Pioneered by Lansford Hastings in 1846, the Hastings Cutoff left the California Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming. In 1846 the party guided by Lansford Hastings passed successfully through the rugged, narrow, rock-filled Weber River canyon to get over the Wasatch Mountains.
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Sugar Bowl Ski Resort Sugar Bowl Ski Resort - Ski trails. 1  Mt. Judah is named after Theodore Judah who was the railroad design engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad, who surveyed and planned the route that the rail road tracks follow through Donner Pass to Nevada.
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Montana's Continental Divide In 1880, James Hill, founder of the Great Northern Railway, was planning the layout of tracks for his new venture. He selected John F. Stevens to find the lowest route across the Divide in the northern portion of Montana's mountains.
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- We will however endeavor to list and describe the main westward trails with our focus being on the early emigrant trails and roads. Some of these trails carry more than one name. All state lines shown are modern. Three brothers, Lindsay, Jesse, and Charles Applegate and their families traveled the Oregon Trail in 1843.
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Fremont Seven land speculators from Illinois, calling themselves Pinney-Barnard & Co., claimed land for a town site on August 23, 1856. They named it for the Pathfinder and famous explorer, Gen.John C.Fremont, who was also a candidate for U.S.President of the newly organized Republican party. The decision to plat a town at this particular location was not just by chance.
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- The bargain was struck, and he, Abner, had paid the hare-lipped stranger four dollars and seventy-five cents to boot; whereupon the mysterious one set down the sleigh, took the press on his cart, and vanished up the road, never to be seen or heard from afterwards.
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Workshops held in an effort to revitalize Boone Trace PINEVILLE, Ky. (WYMT)- In 1775, Daniel Boone and his crew of 35 axmen, created the first trail in Kentucky. The trail is now known as Boone Trace. Leaders across Kentucky are on a mission to revitalize the trail, in an effort to preserve and protect it. Friends of Boone Trace is a non-profit group dedicated to saving Boone Trace. It's kind of been forgotten about, said John Fox, the President of Friends of Boone Trace.
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Location, Information, ann. snowfall, introduction & Map Location, Information, ann. snowfall, introduction & Map. Donner Summit sits at the top of the Sierra along Interstate 80 on the route from San Francisco to Salt Lake City and points east. Click on the map link above. When you get off I-80 you are at about 7,000 feet. Some nearby peaks soar another thousand feet higher.
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Nancy Kelsey Nancy Kelsey. Nancy Kelsey (August 1, 1823, Barren County, Kentucky – August 10, 1896, Cuyama, California) was a member of the Bartleson-Bidwell party. She was the first white woman to travel overland from Missouri, seeing Utah and Nevada before crossing the Sierra Nevada mountains into California on November 25, 1841.