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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 28, 2017
Caption: The South Alternate Route of the Oregon Trail Marker, detail
Additional Description: Captions: (clockwise from 12 o'clock) Farewell Bend State Park "Here we bade adieu to snake river, which is said to henceforth to pursue its course amingst impracticable mountains where no possibility of traveling with animals." - William J. Watson, August 12, 1849; Ontario, Ontario Rest Stop Gateway tp Oregon; Nyssa; Ft. Boise, Hudson Bay Company "Crossed Snake River at Fort Boise, the water being four feet deep." - Charles H. Brandt, August 22, 1851; Glenns Ferry Road Some emigrants departed the main trail and took the South Alternate trail; South Alternate Trail, Adrian You Are Here; Keeney Pass "Proceeded about five miles against an increasingly west wind over a very dusty road till it became so bad we could not see our teams or breathe..." - Cecelia Adams and Parthenia Blank, September 21, 1852; Vale "At this place there is a large butte of red lava that looks like it had not cooled yet, and one would hardly suppose it had, from the number of hot springs along its base" - P.V. Crawford, August 21, 1851; Alkali Springs "13 miles to a sulphur spring, where we mooned. This distance is up arm of the Malheur, though dry at time." - Riley Root, August 9, 1848; Birch Creek "...by 7:00 o'clock we were on a creek with plenty of water and a little grass, having had neither for twenty miles" - Basil Nelson Longsworth 1853.
Submitted: August 13, 2017, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p394166
File Size: 3.711 Megabytes

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