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The Southern Emigrant Trail should not be confused with the Applegate Trail, which is part of the Northern Emigrant Trails. The Southern Emigrant Trail, also known as the Gila Trail, the Kearny Trail, the Southern Trail and the Butterfield Stage Trail, was a major land route for immigration into California from the eastern United States that ...
Two major wagon-based transportation networks, one typically starting in Missouri and the other in the Mexican province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, served the majority of settlers during the era of westward expansion. Three of the Missouri-based routes—the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails—were collectively known as the Emigrant Trails.
Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los ...
An American wagon train on the Southern Emigrant Trail. Box Canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County, is a California Historical Landmark No. 472 listed on September 11, 1950. Box Canyon is a desert canyon and mountain pass on the Historic Southern Emigrant Trail.
The typical California Trail wagon weighed about 1,300 pounds (590 kg) empty with about 2,500 pounds (1,100 kg) of capacity (starting with less than 2,000 pounds (910 kg) recommended) and about 88 cubic feet (2.5 m 3) of storage space in an 11 feet
Cooke's Wagon Road or Cooke's Road was the first wagon road between the Rio Grande and the Colorado River to San Diego, through the Mexican provinces of Nuevo México, Chihuahua, Sonora and Alta California, established by Philip St. George Cooke and the Mormon Battalion, from October 19, 1846 to January 29, 1847 during the Mexican–American War.
Beale Wagon Road Marker in Kingman. Beale described the route, "It is the shortest from our western frontier by 300 miles (480 km), being nearly directly west. It is the most level: our wagons only double-teaming once in the entire distance, and that at a short hill, and over a surface heretofore unbroken by wheels or trail on any kind.
California State Route 99; California State Route 154; California Trail; Carson Trail; Central Overland Route; Conejo Grade; Cooke's Wagon Road; Cottonwood Creek (Kern County) County Line Road (Santa Clara–Stanislaus counties, California)