A portion of South Pass (two nearby passes, really) that formed the most-traveled and most-trusted low valley through the fearsome Rocky Mountains for 19th-Century westward emigrants on the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails, which followed much the same route to this point and beyond before diverging, as well as Pony Express riders
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This was no stroll through a valley for the travelers. The passes themselves lie more than 7,000 feet above sea level in what is now Fremont County in southwestern Wyoming
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Date
01/01/2016
Location
fremont county
Source
Library of Congress
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