Photo: We Made It! The End of the Great Basin Marker

Caption: We Made It! The End of the Great Basin Marker - Marker Inset (caption below)
Additional Description: “At twelve oclock we arrive at a mormon station…The best of Pine timber is to be seen here….After Seven miles travel this morning, we Enter a Canyon pass through which the Head waters of this river (which we have been Assending) Descends….When I look at the Large Rocks, the Large Pine & Fir Trees, the Steep precipices and lastly the Machy and Swampy places near the Head of the Canyon, I only Consider bare Passable. “
William H. Kilgore, July 30 & 31, 1850.
Submitted: September 25, 2016, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p363851
File Size: 0.601 Megabytes

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