July 22 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail Just north of where the Lander Road crossed Green River is the site of the Green River Rendezvous. You can visit the interpretive markers at Trappers Point Overlook near Pinedale, WY (GPS coordinates -109.982, 42.880). The Historical Marker Database provides information about those [...]
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July California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 3
July 15 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail If you were traveling along the Sublette cutoff, you would reach the Little Sandy river at this point (GPS coordinates -109.302, 42.260). There are no modern roads through this region and the area is nearly unchanged from the days of the California Trail. [...]
July California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 2
July 8 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail There is a pullout (GPS coordinates -108.009, 42.517) on Highway 287 west of Jeffrey City that has a historical marker regarding an Ice Slough. Emigrants discovered that this particular valley has a marsh which maintains ice at depth well into the summer and [...]
July California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 1
Here is a continuation of my posts regarding a virtual road trip along the California Trail, posted on the Facebook page of the California Trail Interpretive Center. July 1 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail Continuing down the road from Poison Spring / Clayton’s Slough (yesterday’s virtual site) is Willow Spring [...]
June California Trail Social Media Posts: Week 4
June 22 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail 3-year-old Ada Magill died from dysentery on July 3, 1864. You can read her story on the Wyoming History webpage of the Wyoming State Historical Society at https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/ada-magill-grave. The photograph of her gravesite (GPS coordinates -105.978,42.849) was downloaded from the Historical Marker Database [...]
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