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South Pass
Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through South Pass, a high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. Within this book Author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to U.S. history and the development of the American West.
South Pass offers a rich history. The Overland Stage, Pony Express, and first transcontinental telegraph all came through the region, and nearly a century later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower designated South Pass as one of America’s first National Historic Landmarks.
Description
South Pass – Gateway to a Continent
Fur Traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the first transcontinental railroad almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass, transforming the American West in a single generation.
ISBN: 978-0-8061-4442-9
325 Pages
Soft Back
6″ x 9″
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014