Back in Time The Hastings Cutoff and Highway 80 Tragedy of the Donner Party

Longfellow, Rickie; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration

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Back in Time The Hastings Cutoff and Highway 80 Tragedy of the Donner Party

2023-06-30
By Longfellow, Rickie
Series: FHWA Highway History Website Articles

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The Hastings Cutoff and Highway 80 Tragedy of the Donner Party
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Longfellow, Rickie
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
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Cold Weather Donner Party History Interstate Highways Migration Weather Conditions
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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United States ; California

United States ; California Less -
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
Abstract:

More than 155 years ago one of the worst tragedies in American travel occurred during the westward migration. The 1840s wagon train journey to California usually began at Independence, Missouri, around the first of May. Taken into consideration were rainfalls that could wash out roads and flood riverbanks, immature grass to feed livestock, or grass that would be eaten by previous wagon trains if they left too early. Travelers had about 123 days to go 2,200 miles and be on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains before October ended. If not, they ran the risk of being stranded in artic-like conditions.
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The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software
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