• and Mormon Trails—were collectively known as the Emigrant Trails. Historians have estimated at least 500,000 emigrants used these three trails between 1843...
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    The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about 1,600 mi (2,600 km) across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns...
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    Nobles Emigrant Trail, also known as the Fort Kearney, South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road, is a trail in California that was used by emigrant parties...
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    Southern Emigrant Trail should not be confused with the Applegate Trail, which is part of the Northern Emigrant Trails. Southern Emigrant Trail, also known...
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    Applegate Trail was an emigrant trail through the present-day U.S. states of Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon used in the mid-19th century by emigrants on...
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    The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri...
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    Lassen Emigrant Trail, also called the Lassen Cutoff, is a historical wagon road in Bieber, California and Westwood, California in Lassen County. Peter...
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    The Emigrant Trail in Wyoming, which is the path followed by Western pioneers using the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails (collectively referred to...
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    the trail follows much the same route as the Oregon Trail and the California Trail; these trails are collectively known as the Emigrant Trail. The Mormon...
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    Emigrant Gap is a gap in a ridge on the California Trail as it crosses the Sierra Nevada, to the west of what is now known as Donner Pass. Here the cliffs...
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    traders through Indian country on the Plains, such as the Emigrant Trail and the Santa Fe Trail, and to maintain forts to guard them. The tribes were compensated...
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    Bozeman Trail ran across native Crow territory established by treaty. "For the Crows, the Bozeman Trail introduced them to a relationship [emigrants and army...
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    The Chisholm Trail (/ˈt͡ʃɪzəm/ CHIZ-əm) was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in southern Texas, crossed the...
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    Peter Lassen (category Danish emigrants)
    "Lassen Emigrant Trail Marker #678". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved October 7, 2012. "Lassen Emigrant Trail Marker...
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    Landmark number #111 about the Old Emigrant Trail. California Historical Landmark number 111 reads: NO. 111 OLD EMIGRANT TRAIL - Near the present Pit River-Happy...
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    the Oregon Trail, California Trail and Pony Express Trail, and was visible at a distance from the Mormon Trail. Over 250,000 westward emigrants passed by...
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    of today's highways, was State Route 88 over Carson Pass and Mormon Emigrant Trail and Sly Park Road to Pleasant Valley. John Calhoun Johnson of Placerville...
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    in 1923, who had come to Eastern Oregon to commemorate the Oregon Trail. "Emigrant Springs State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States...
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  • preservation and protection of overland emigrant trails and the emigrant experience. OCTA Chapters work closely with National Trails System partners to help interpret...
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    types of trails: the national scenic trails, national historic trails, national recreation trails, and connecting or side trails. The national trails provide...
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    The state park contains the Emigrant Trail Museum and the Pioneer Monument dedicated to the travelers of the Emigrant Trail. Donner Memorial State Park...
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    over Carson pass was previously used for the California Trail and the Mormon Emigrant Trail. The mountainous portion of the route is included in the...
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    Fort Laramie National Historic Site (category Mormon Trail)
    the Oregon Trail, and the subsidiary northern emigrant trails which split off further west. These included the California and Mormon Trails. The middle...
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  • up Emigrant or emigrant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An emigrant is a person who has participated in emigration The Emigrants or Emigrant may...
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    The Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area is the federal land in northwestern Nevada, under the Bureau of Land...
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  • Nevada Emigrant Pass (Oregon), in the Cascade Mountains Emigrant Pass (Lassen Volcanic National Park), a California crossing of the Nobles Emigrant Trail Emigrant...
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    Independence Rock (category California Trail)
    well-known landmark on the Oregon, Mormon, and California emigrant trails. Many of these emigrants carved their names on it, and it was described by early...
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    would be to remap the main emigrant trail on his way to Utah and to create a new guidebook for the Army and civilian emigrants. Having become interested...
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    (Emigrant Trail), el. 7,159 feet (2,182 m) Emigrant Trail, 42°35′5″N 110°01′22″W / 42.58472°N 110.02278°W / 42.58472; -110.02278 (Emigrant Trail)...
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    Trail Lolo Pass Meek Cutoff Mormon Trail Oregon Trail Pony Express Santa Fe Trail Southern Emigrant Trail Tanner Trail First transcontinental railroad Folklore...
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