California Trail
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19UW_traveling-through-hell_Wilmington-NV.html
Look at the barren country south of here just beyond this Rest Stop. This is the Forty-Mile Desert—a barren stretch of waterless alkali wasteland. It was the single-most dreaded section of the entire California Trail from the banks of the Missouri Riv…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19UY_about-your-journey_Shenandoah-NV.html
Whichever direction your travels take you, you're going to have a similar experience to what the California-bound emigrants had. You're going to see the same country, except for the towns and the ranch meadows. The big difference, though, is that you'll be …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19WX_about-your-journey_Winnemucca-NV.html
Whichever direction your travels take you, you're going to have a similar experience to what the California-bound emigrants had. You're going to see the same country, except for the towns and the ranch meadows. The big difference, though, is that you'll be …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19X6_about-your-journey_Crescent-Valley-NV.html
Whichever direction your travels take you, you're going to have a similar experience to what the California-bound emigrants had. You're going to see the same country, except for the towns and the ranch meadows. The big difference, though, is that you'll be …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19X7_a-tale-of-two-highways_Crescent-Valley-NV.html
You have arrived at this place by driving east on Interstate Highway 80. Did you know that since entering Nevada you have been traveling along the route of the historic California Trail? From 1843 to 1869, an estimated 250,000 people made the trek from the …
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19X9_gravely-ford_Crescent-Valley-NV.html
7 miles southeast of here was a favorite pioneer crossing of the Humboldt River, Gravely Ford. Campsite of the Donner Party, here occurred the Snyder-Reed fight, as Snyder lashed at Reed he missed and hit Reed's wife. Reed then killed Snyder. Reed was banis…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19XQ_west-end-of-hastings-cutoff_Elko-NV.html
?????Across the Humboldt Valley southward from this point a deeply incised canyon is seen opening into the valley. Through that canyon along the South Fork of the Humboldt ran the disaster-laden route called the Hastings Cutoff. It joined the regular Fort H…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19XR_hoppe-lienhard-wagon-group_Elko-NV.html
This site is approximately 2½ miles from the Humboldt wagon trail. Hoppe-Lienhard traveled west with the Harlan-Young wagon train in 1847 to Fort Sutter. History reveals this party was part of the group which was responsible for the California Gold Rush.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19YY_marking-time_Lorain-NV.html
California Trail ruts and swales wind across Northern Nevada some touched only by the forces of nature since they were made by emigrant wagon trains on their way west in the mid 1800s.
Many of these irreplaceable historic trail segments lie on public lan…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HM19YZ_the-end-of-the-hastings-cutoff_Lorain-NV.html
Across the valley you can see the canyon of the South Fork River, a major tributary to the Humboldt River. This portal is also the western end of the infamous Hastings Cutoff, which rejoined the main California Trail not far from the California Trail Center…