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California National Historic Trail South Pass - virtually all emigrants passed through here on their way west.
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California National Historic Trail
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Site of ill-fated Donner-Reed winter camp.

Images on the California Trail (16 Photos)

Photo images from along the California Trail between Missouri and the Sierra Nevada.

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Photo image of a circa 1800s Union Pacific Railroad engine.

Did You Know?
It is estimated that between 350,000 and 500,000 people emigrated to the west between the 1840s and 1870s. They came by ox drawn wagons, on foot, & pulling hand carts until the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads completed a rail line in May of 1869 at Promotory Point in Northern Utah.
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