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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BSE_pinnacle-pass_Malta-ID.html
After dinner a ride of 2 miles brought us to the outlet of this romantic vale, a very narrow pass, just wide enough for a wagon, and on either side very high, jagged. and thin walls of granite.... This is called the "Pinnacle Pass." — J. Gol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BSD_california-trail-pinnacle-pass_Malta-ID.html
"A ride ... brought us to the outlet of this romantic vale, a very narrow pass - just wide enough for a wagon, and on either side very high, jagged and thin walls of granite ... called the 'Pinnacle Pass'" - J.G. Bruff, Aug 29, 1849
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BSA_twin-sisters_Almo-ID.html
They rise in a cone-like form from the bottom of the valley to a height of from 400 to 600 feet they are round and quite regular in form, tapering gradually to a point. — Emigrant journal entry (Sawyer) describing the Twin Sisters, circa 185…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BS6_passing-through_Almo-ID.html
At City of Rocks we were met with all kinds of Christmas greeting ... we sat down to a Christmas dinner that only youth and vigor could do justice to.... Jim has erected a Christmas tree, and decorated it with cranberries and pop corn, and on it …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BS5_california-trail-trail-junction_Almo-ID.html
''About one mile from the last of these granite spires we came to the junction of the Northern Salt Lake Road to California." — John Steele, Aug 8, 1850
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Trails West Inc. P.O. Box 12045, Reno NV 89510
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BRL_fading-away_Malta-ID.html
There are thousands of names here I registered on a large Rock. — Richard Augustus Keen at City of Rocks, June 22, 1852
Throughout the West emigrants recorded their passing by writing their names — often with axle grease — at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BRJ_a-pleasant-place_Malta-ID.html
Surrounded by high Rocky and very ragged looking mountains — this valley we take the liberty to call Pleasant Valley, as it is a very good and pleasant for camping. — Leander V. Loomis, circa 1850, describing the Circle Creek Basin. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BR7_camped_Almo-ID.html
...with a wide plain at our left and high mountains at our right and being within sight of the...Salt Lake Route which road intersects our trail seven miles further on. - Emigrant journal entry (Lewis), circa 1850, describing their camp near her…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BR6_replica-wagon_Almo-ID.html
That this journey...is perilous, the deaths of many testify...as I passed the fresh made graves, I have glanced at the side boards of the wagon, not knowing how soon it might serve as a coffin for some one of us. Lodisa Frizzell, 1852
The wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BR4_california-trail-nearing-city-of-rocks_Almo-ID.html
"We enter a gorge of the hills which in a short time brings us to a large ampitheatre surrounded with rock of every kind of fanciful character." — Joseph Middleton Aug 26, 1849 Guidebook Available
Trails West Inc. P.O. Box 12045, Reno NV …