Historic Trails and Roads in Iowa - California Trail, Mormon Trail, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lawrence, Kansas, Independence, Missouri (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 284. Not illustrated. Chapters: California Trail, Mormon Trail, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Lawrence, Kansas, Independence, Missouri, Douglas County, Kansas, Eudora, Kansas, Shawnee, Kansas, Garden Grove, Iowa, Lecompton, Kansas, Interstate 80 in Nevada, Emigrant Trail in Wyoming, Platte River, Fort Kearny, Fort Caspar, Fort Hall, South Pass, Scotts Bluff National Monument, Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Fort Bridger, Great Platte River Road, Winter Quarters (North Omaha, Nebraska), Martin's Cove, Chimney Rock National Historic Site, Blacks Fork, Florence Mill (Omaha, Nebraska), the Chisholms, Pacific Creek (Sweetwater County, Wyoming), North Platte River, Independence Rock, Salt Lake Cutoff, Westport, Kansas City, Mount Pisgah, Names Hill, Ash Hollow State Historical Park, Massacre Rocks State Park, Emigration Canyon, Utah, Courthouse and Jail Rocks, Beckwourth Pass, Mahaffie House, Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Fort Mcpherson, Nebraska, Register Cliff, Cutler's Park, Devil's Gate, Sweetwater River, Cooks Station, Joseph Chiles, Big Mountain Pass. Excerpt: The California Trail was a major overland immigrant trail of about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California. It was used primarily from 1841 to 1869. It followed the same corridor of trails, following different river valleys, as the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail till it turned off in Idaho, Wyoming or Utah to follow trails leading to the Humboldt River valley. Most of the trail across the Great Basin in Nevada followed the Humboldt River valley to obtain the water, grass and 'wood' needed by all travelers. Once in western Nevada and eastern California the pioneers worked out several paths over the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains into the gold fields, settlements and cities of n...