The Hastings Cutoff was an alternative route for westward emigrants to travel to California, as proposed by Lansford Hastings in The Emigrant's Guide...

Donner Party was slowed after electing to follow a new route called the Hastings Cutoff, which bypassed established trails and instead crossed the Rocky Mountains'...

Lansford Warren Hastings (1819–1870) was an American explorer and Confederate soldier. He is best remembered as the developer of Hastings Cutoff, a claimed...

Lansford Hastings in 1846, the Hastings Cutoff left the California Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming. In 1846 the party, guided by Hastings, passed successfully...

the main trail and followed (and improved) the rough path known as Hastings Cutoff, used by the ill-fated Donner Party in 1846. Between 1847 and 1860...

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by Lansford Hastings, a lawyer and the author of The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California; Hastings' book promoted the Hastings Cutoff, which was...

Lansford Hastings and his "Hastings Cutoff," Tamsen Donner was wary of the gamble of trusting Hastings on his word. No one had actually met Hastings, and...

with Lansford Hastings by way of a new route, which will soon be known as Hastings Cutoff. Clyman urges the emigrants to avoid Hastings Cutoff and take the...

the Hastings Cutoff alternative route to California, came by in 1846. Journal entries and interviews describe the Donner Party meeting the "Hastings Trail"...

the West and North. As the trail developed it became marked by numerous cutoffs and shortcuts from Missouri to Oregon. The basic route follows river valleys...

modified routing of a lesser used branch of the trail called Hastings Cutoff. The cutoff rejoins the main route of the trail in the Humboldt River canyon...

landmark for their crossing of the Great Salt Lake Desert, part of the Hastings Cutoff emigrant route. Running out of water, they had to temporarily abandon...

crossing the desert and in the 1840s, westward emigrants used the Hastings Cutoff through 130 miles (210 km) of Great Salt Lake desert to reduce the...

Bonneville Salt Flats Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative Hastings Cutoff Hidden Cave, an archaeological cave site located in the Great Basin...

decided to split off from the main trail and take a new route called the Hastings Cutoff, which had been advertised as a shortcut across the Great Basin. They...

Kelsey and wife Edward Rogers James Ross Richard Williams and wife Hastings Cutoff Nunis, Doyce, ed. (1991). The Bidwell-Bartleson Party: 1841 California...

City-Provo-Orem, UT Combined Statistical Area. An early route of the Hastings Cutoff ran through the Morgan Valley and down through a narrow gorge in Weber...

to Fort Bridger in Wyoming, and then the Mormon Trail (known as the Hastings Cutoff) to Salt Lake City, Utah. From there, it followed the Central Nevada...

original route used by pioneers entering the area. It was part of the Hastings Cutoff route used by the Donner Party in 1846 (not affiliated with the Mormon...

The Salt Lake Cutoff is one of the many shortcuts (or cutoffs) that branched from the California, Mormon and Oregon Trails in the United States. It led...

California immigrants and forging what would later be known at the "Hastings Cutoff" across the south end of the Great Salt Lake. The Donner Party followed...

for a time. He was a member of the first recorded crossing of the Hastings Cutoff in 1850. Abbotts Lagoon in the Point Reyes National Seashore is named...

California Trail, modern 2100 South is a less common branch called Hastings Cutoff that became infamous because of the Donner Party. The Lincoln Highway...

for the Overland Pass route across the Ruby Mountains – part of the Hastings Cutoff. Overland Pass was also the site of much activity in the 1860s. A transportation...

line, Luelling, against the advice of his wagon master, takes the Hastings Cutoff to Oregon, where he intends to plant an apple orchard. Tim McIntire...

1846–47. Those pioneers had started late and elected to follow the Hastings Cutoff, a new route which slowed the group, and they reached the Sierra Nevada...

Hastings set out with teams of men in recruiting settlers to use the Hastings Cutoff. Many of the settlers who tried the new route found it very challenging...

landmark in Tooele Valley ever since the first pioneers traversed the Hastings Cutoff trail. Though not officially a national monument like its nearby peer...

40.978823°N 117.741971°W / 40.978823; -117.741971 3 West End of Hastings Cutoff Elko 4 Junction House—The First Settlement Washoe 39°29′20″N 119°47′42″W...