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Photographer: Jeremy Snow
Taken: February 16, 2024
Caption: Old Spanish Trail Park Marker
Additional Description: This part of the Old Spanish Trial connected Las Vegas Springs to Red Rock Canyon with its Cottonwood Springs and other water sources. The trail then led over Mountain Pass and into Pahrump Valley, then to Stump Spring at the state line and California. When the Salt Lake, Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad opened the railroad line through Las Vegas in 1905, it took the flatter course generally followed today by Interstate 15. This particular patch of ground was a dry and uninteresting peice of desert to be passed over quickly on the way to water either at Las Begas Springs or Cottonwood Springs. Orgiginally wagons were not used on the trail; travelers and traders usually walked, sometimes riding horses, and used mules to carry their goods. A mule is a cross between a burron and a horse. It's a strong and durable animal and orignally the most important vehicle, mostly carrying good, on the Old Spanish Trail - Old Spanish Trail Association.
Submitted: February 23, 2024, by Jeremy Snow of Cedar City, Utah.
Database Locator Identification Number: p775679
File Size: 3.202 Megabytes

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