The California Trail led to the state's gold fields 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 to …

Pioneer travel correspondent Bayard Taylor made this observation in 1849 as thousands of adventurers on the southern trails to the California gold fields crossed the desert country between the Colorado …

Paradise “Ho for California!” Free land. Gold. Adventure. Between 1841 and 1869, more than a quarter million people answered this call and crossed the plains and mountains to the “El Dorado” of the …

Its highest elevation, at Brown Bear Pass, California, is 9751 feet. The length of the trail from the Carson River at Fort Churchill, Nevada to Sonora, California, is 173.4 topographic miles. 1849 Henness …

edit region Accompaniment to the Map of the Emigrant Road – “Brief Practical Advice to the Emigrant or Traveller" [in case you want to go] T.H. Jefferson printed a map for use by emigrants following his …

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The California Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the goldfields and rich farmlands of the Golden State during the 1840s and 1850s, the greatest mass migration in American history. …

The Hudspeth Cutoff, which was opened in 1849 by the wagon train captained by Benoni Hudspeth and guided by John Myers, joined the California Trail about a mile south of Marker C-4 where the trail …