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It is there that the Reed, Donner and other families decided to take the Hastings Cutoff. The Cutoff would shave 300 miles off their journey, rejoining the California Trail on the other side of the Sierra's.
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Here, the Donner Party completed the crossing of Hasting's Cut-off, ... From here you can see the narrow canyon cut by the South Fork Humboldt that the Donner Party traveled through (over the red roof of the ranch house with the trees nearest the road). This canyon marks the end of the Hastings Cutoff.
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He wrote that it was around July 9 upon crossing the Green River on their way from South Pass to Ft. Bridger, that the Simpson company in which he was traveling had met several mountaineers who warned them that the new Hastings Cut-off was “an impracticable route for teams, and if they attempted it,
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Hastings advised the fourth company, the Donner-Reed party, to cut a road through Emigration Canyon. Having crossed the salt desert on horseback, he did not foresee difficulties in the soft surface; however, the heavier wagon trains encountered problems there.
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www.media.utah.edu/UHE/h/HASTINGSCUTOFF.html
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Hastings is my district Rep. but he doesn’t represent me so to speak. He is too busy helping illegal Haitian aliens and undermining anything ... Palm Beach Escorts: House votes 345-75 to cut off ACORN money; Wexler votes “no” and … | A News Escort For Palm Beach Escorts. Says: September 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 pm...
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This road branched off from the Rio Grande main thorofare at about thirty-three degrees, ... Then they took a short cut across the plains to the Big Horn Branch of the Yellowstone. From there they went up Wind River to Great Dome of the Shoshone Range, thence to a head stream of the Snake and thence to the Columbia.
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[From The Nevada State Historical Society Papers vol. IV 1923-1924, pp. 29-189.] ... THE DEVELOPMENT OF RENO ... If, on the other hand, the rate from eastern points to San Francisco compels the carriers to handle freight at a loss there is no justification for penalizing Nevada and other intermountain states by assessing a...
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True West Magazine, December 1976; . Offered by RareNonFiction.com ... Sumpter Valley - the Hastings-Hudspeth Cut-off; Midnight Alarm - S.J. (Sid) Overton; The Eccentric Men of La Porte - Tom Watson, Long-Time Cattle Buyer, Northwestern Colorado; Davis' Mine, Gillham, Arkansas - clearcutters are near;
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That’s absolutely disgusting. He should be torturted. If I had my hands on him I would be glad to have the honor. He needs his ears and fingers chopped off and sent to jail!! ... A TORTURED puppy whose ears and tail were cut off with scissors in a cruel attack is looking for a loving home. ... Hastings Leader...
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