California Trail


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California Trail

route used by pioneers, extending from Wyoming to Sacramento. [Am. Hist.: WB, 21: 440f]
See: Wild West
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A federal judge on Tuesday demanded that local government and activists find a way to help hundreds of homeless people camped along a California trail before he forces them to move from the site.
Judge demands solutions for homeless
The California Trail Interpretive Center presents a temporary exhibit that features paintings by Native American students from Owyhee Combined School, located in the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, Owyhee, Nevada.
United States : California Trail Interpretive Center Presents Temporary Exhibit, Through Our Own Eyes: A Native American Youth Art Exhibition
Taking the Oregon Trail, the emigrants decided to follow a shortcut to their destination, the Hastings cut-off, a much-touted but untried route from Fort Bridger, Wyoming, to the California Trail.
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
Meldahl, a professor of geology and oceanography, draws on the diaries and letters of the emigrants, as well as his own experience trekking the 2,000-mile California Trail, to bring to life the settlers' experience in the harsh western landscape.
Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
The announcement was made at an event noting the upcoming California Trail Days on May19 and20, a statewide recognition of the importance of trails and their upkeep.
EQUESTRIANS TO GET ARENA OFF BARREL SPRINGS TRAIL
Ellen Taylor is an art teacher at California Trail Junior High School in Olathe, Kansas.
A passport to discovery
Or head down the central California Trail run where you can carve a nice wide slalom and weave from state to state.
Travel: Ski in heaven party like hell; GAMBLE ON LAKE TAHOE AND YOU CAN'T LOSE, SAYS PETER FENTON
This year a wagon train will travel the California Trail to commemorate the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Independence at South Pass
40 (1953), a biography of the highway; American Ways of Life (1954); Pickett's Charge (1959); The California Trail (1962); Not So Rich as You Think (1968), on ecology; American Place Names (1970); and American Given Names (1979).
Stewart, George R(ippey) (1895-1980)
The California Trail Interpretive Center presents a temporary exhibit, EIDOS: Contemplating the Pioneer Experience, by San Francisco Artist Ann Belden.
United States : California Trail Center Announces Temporary Exhibit, EIDOS: Contemplating the Pioneer Experience
As you can well see, this is a service to everyone who uses the trail,'' said Barry Wetherby, secretary-treasurer of the nonprofit California Trail Users Coalition, which coordinated the $290,532 project.
TRAIL OF DREAMS THIRTEEN YEARS OF PLANNING PAYS OFF IN SOLEDAD CANYON
Three years later the first emigrant party traveled the new Applegate Trail, which branched off the California Trail in Nevada and ran northwest across the Black Rock Desert and the Siskiyous into the Rogue and Willamette river valleys.
Betty of Sunny Valley

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