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OCTA > Overland Journal Volume 10 Number 2 Summer 1992

Overland Journal Volume 10 Number 2 Summer 1992

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Overland Journal 10-2, Summer 1992
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Oregon-California Trails Association

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June 25 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California TrailAlso located in Casper, Wyoming is the Fort Caspar museum (https://www.fortcasparwyoming.com/fort_caspar_museum GPS coordinates -106.370, 42.837) which has a reconstructed military post that was near the ferry crossing of the North Platte river. In addition to the Museum building and reconstructed fort, the Museum includes a reproduction Mormon ferry and Guinard bridge section, a carriage shed with open storage of the wagon collection, river trail, and memorial cemetery. The photo comes from their website.Margaret Frink (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101079825640&view=1up&seq=1) described this crossing of the North Platte river in 1850: "Sunday, June 16 - We remained in camp at this place all day. A great many emigrants are gathered here and above, preparatory to crossing the river. The water is too deep to ford and the ferry charges are very high. Some are making ferry-boats of their wagon bodies taken off the wheels, and launched in the water, with long ropes to haul them back and forth across the river. In some cases, empty casks are tied to the four corners of the wagon body, to keep it from sinking. This plan is very dangerous in the swift current, and we hear of many persons who have lost their lives in these attempts. Monday, June 17 - A great crowd was waiting to cross the ferry. But by starting early, we were not delayed, and got over by six o'clock. This ferry was established by Kit Carson, the famous hunter and trapper, one of Fremont's guides. There were several ferry- boats. The water was deep and swift. The boats were attached to strong ropes stretched across the river, and were driven quickly from shore to shore by the strong current. We paid $5.00 each for our two wagons, and $1.00 each for our seven horses. The Platte River at this place comes out of the mountains from the southward, making a sharp bend at the ferry." ... See MoreSee Less

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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OCTA E-News for Friday, June 24, 2022 - https://mailchi.mp/indepmo/e-news-for-monday-july-13665605 ... See MoreSee Less

OCTA E-News for Friday, June 24, 2022

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Please continue to turn in your volunteer hours, mileage, expenses paid by you and not reimbursed, time traveling to meetings (including the San Diego Symposium), research, etc. We are attempting to ...

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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Saturday, August 27, 2022Pre-Convention Tour: Red Desert Indigenous Sites TrekThe landscape of the Red Desert south of South Pass is scattered with remains telling stories of people who lived there from time immemorial. Most anchored in the area were the Shoshone and Ute tribes, with the Arapaho, Lakota, Crow and Cheyenne prevalent as well. More recently, the Red Desert was among the vast Shoshone lands recognized in the 1863 Treaty of Fort Bridger, around 44 million acres in parts of what are Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, and Wyoming. Just five years later, the treaty was amended, and the Eastern Shoshone were assigned a reservation on Wind River, north of the Red Desert, about one-tenth the size of the lands identified in the 1863 agreement.Tour leaders Yufna Soldier Wolf, northern Arapaho, and Jason Baldes, Eastern Shoshone, will meet the group at the South Pass Rest Area on Wyoming Rte. 28 at 9 a.m. Saturday, August 27, and head south on dirt roads from there. Sites will include places tribal elders have long identified as significant, including thousand-year-old rock art sites, stone circles, a buffalo jump and much more. Tour will last all day and is limited to 10 vehicles; four-wheel drive highly recommended. For the nights before and after the trek, a reasonably priced hotel in Lander is the Holiday Lodge at $90 per night. Phone (307) 332-2511 before August 12 if possible to make your own reservation. Other Lander hotels will be more expensive. From Lander it’s 150 miles to Casper.On the trek, bring lunch, water and sunscreen—and dress for the weather. Limited to 10 vehicles.Price $10.00The registration link is in the comments. ... See MoreSee Less

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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Check out the solar cars built by college students as they travel the Oregon Trail next month. Link to details in the comments. ... See MoreSee Less

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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June 24 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California TrailThe National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming is a "sister" facility to the California Trail Interpretive Center in Elko, Nevada. Along with the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Baker City, Oregon these three Bureau of Land Management Centers focus on the stories of the westward migration. The NHTIC (https://nhtcf.org/ GPS coordinates -106.337, 42.866) provides interpretation about all four trails that pass through this point: the California Trail, Oregon Trail, Mormon Trail, and Pony Express. The picture came from their website.On June 28, 1850 Madison Berryman Moorman (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106000651817&view=1up&seq=51&skin=2021) described the territory covered during the last few days of our virtual road trip: "Nine miles from camp in the morning we came to Deer Creek where a large number of emigrants were encamped. The grass was not very good, but it being a cool, pleasant looking place, there being large, beautiful trees densly covering the broad bottom of the creek, we concluded to stop and wait for Dr. Thomas and J. W. W., who were behind with a jaded mule. The latter had to stop the evening before in consequence of its refusing to travel & did not get up with the train. After spending two hours in fishing etc., they came up with the mule much improved. Ten miles from this place we came to Crooked Muddy Creek, one of the most difficult & trying places to pass I ever saw. The banks were very steep & muddy—but caution, good teams & luck brought us over safely. Six miles more and we were at Muddy Creek, (& never was anything more appropriately named, for the water has the appearance of being near one half mud, rushing down the steep hill side into the Platte.) After having seen evidences of no little distress caused by the breaking down of wagons, which were left, deserted, & for want of them no inconsiderable amount of clothing & sundry articles were cast away. The rough road had broken one of the spindles of our axles, and fortunately we picked up wheels & axles that just suited. This was some good luck for our side.—For the first time I nodded as I rode along, it being irresistable in the melting sun. All well & in fine spirits." ... See MoreSee Less

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Oregon-California Trails Association updated their status.

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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Hiram Young arrived in Independence in 1850 after buying freedom for his wife and him, then proceeded to become one of the wealthiest people in the region by building wagons for the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe Trails. ... See MoreSee Less

Independence honoring a famous citizen by rededicating a park and school named in his honor - NewsBreak

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INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — The city of independence is honoring one of its famous residents on Thursday, Hiram Young. At Hiram Park, they’re holding a ceremony to rededicate the location after several im...

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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June 23 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California TrailIn the winter of 1852-1853, John Richard (pronounced Reshaw) built a bridge across the North Platte. Emigrants would soon be leaving the North Platte en route to follow the Sweetwater and they needed to be on the north side of the river. A replica of the bridge (that doesn't span the river) can be viewed at Reshaw Park (GPS coordinates -106.267,42.870) in Evansville, WY. The photograph was downloaded from the Historical Marker Database at https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=92052.John Murray wrote on June 9, 1853: "The bridge is a substantial structure - it has 8 wood framed piers filled & sunk with rock & the reaches are supported by heavy braces. The sides are railed up & bottom planked. The bridge is about 150 yards long & comes out this side (north) on a high rocky bank... At each end of the bridge are Indian lodges and trading houses & a blacksmith shop. Above the bridge a mile is another trading post where they have lots of horses and mules to sell or trade." ... See MoreSee Less

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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Good news for the start of summer!It's the first day of summer, and we've got great news! The child of the Oldest Apple Tree in the Pacific Northwest is bearing fruit! The Old Apple Tree, located on the southern end of the Vancouver Land Bridge, died in 2020 at 194 years of age. However, park rangers at Fort Vancouver worked with Vancouver, Washington City Government leadership as well as staff in the Urban Forestry Department, Friends of Trees, and Arborscape Tree Care to salvage 14 root sucker trees from the oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest. One root sucker was transplanted next to the stump of the Old Apple Tree. These offspring of the Old Apple Tree are pieces of living history. The Old Apple Tree lives on through these trees! ... See MoreSee Less

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Oregon-California Trails Association

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June 22 – A 5-month virtual road trip along the California Trail3-year-old Ada Magill died from dysentery on July 3, 1864. You can read her story on the Wyoming History webpage of the Wyoming State Historical Society at https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/ada-magill-grave.The photograph of her gravesite (GPS coordinates -105.978,42.849) was downloaded from the Historical Marker Database at https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=92079. The Wyoming State Historical Society website (https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/graves-martin-ringo-and-jp-parker) also tells the story of Martin Ringo, whose grave is on private land not far from Ada's. Unfortunately, death of a loved one was a common experience along the Trail. It was near this spot that Mary Ringo, whose journal can be read in the Library of Congress at (https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdclccn.56014477/?sp=36&r=0.281,0.624,0.857,0.357,0), lost her husband and recorded the event in her journal on July 30, 1864: "And now Oh God comes the saddest record of my life for this day my husband accidentally shot himself and was buried by the wayside and oh, my heart is breaking, if I had no children how gladly would I lay me down with my dead – but now Oh God I pray for strength to raise our precious children and oh – may no one ever suffer the anguish that is breaking my heart, my little children are crying all the time and I – oh what am I to do. Every one in camp is kind to us but God alone can heal the breaking heart. After burying my darling husband we hitch up and drive some 5 miles. Mr. Davenport drove my mules for me and Oh, the agony of parting from that grave, to go and leave him on that hillside where I shall never see it more but thank God tis only the body lying there and may we meet in Heaven where there is no more death but only life eternally." ... See MoreSee Less

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