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OCTA > Utah > Salt Lake County

Salt Lake County

The Trail Location & the Trials and Tribulations of the Emigrants While Crossing This Desert on the Hastings Cutoff

Wagon Ruts Hastings Cutoff

The greatest suffering by the pioneers traversing Hasting Cutoff in Utah took place on the Great Salt Lake Desert. For this reason it is important to grasp how the salt desert or mud flats were geologically formed. so that historians Read More …


Some Enigmatic Stations of The Pony Express and Overland Stage Between Salt Lake City And Nevada

Echo Canyon Pony Express

Since its inception in 1860, the Pony Express has been an important part of the opening of the west to the American public. However, prior to the 1970s, there was little serious scholarly work on it. In conjunction with the Read More …


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