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This insignificant-looking swale many miles west of Casper in Natrona County, Wyoming, was not insignificant to emigrants tramping along the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails (actually one trail at the time; they diverged far to the west). Now called Emigrant Gap, this place offered the weary travelers a sweeping view of what lay ahead over the weeks to come: endless, mostly dry, sagebrush prairies leading to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains
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Summary
The Agate Fossil Beds were the scene of important Miocene age discoveries in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Visitors now walk the Fossil Hills Trails and stand where paleontologists worked. From the historic quarries the mixed grass prairie holds stories of ages gone by.
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agate fossil beds national monument
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agate fossil hills
agate fossil beds
fossil hills trails
miocene age discoveries
ages
grass prairie
national parks gallery
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nebraska
farm
Date
1800
Source
National Parks Gallery
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Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication