The sun is low over Wyoming's South Pass ... over maybe the most important landmark on the Oregon Trail without seeing it. The South Pass is a 20-mile-wide smooth spot over the Continental ...

Rachel Pattison, who died of cholera on the Oregon Trail in 1849 ... Location: Rest area south of Wyoming Highway 220, 55 miles west of Casper. » South Pass: Discovery of this area by John ...

Pony Express ride across the U.S. West crossed through central Wyoming on Tuesday. Rain and a little hail couldn’t slow the ...

Did you know that a 19th-century Irish trapper and mountain man helped emigrants reach the west coast of America in the 1800s by discovering South Pass ... Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.

Stark laughed when he retold the story Thursday in Casper, about 150 miles into a 468-mile, 11-day jog following the Oregon Trail across the southern half of Wyoming. “I’ve gotten the sense ...

according to the Oregon-California Trails Association. He discovered the South Pass, an important passage on what would later become the mass migration route. Sen. Lewis Linn of Missouri in 1841 ...

Overuse can even be a problem, with thousands of Mormon pilgrims hauling heavy handcarts across a Wyoming stretch ... Wagon ruts on the Oregon Trail at Keeney Pass south of Vale, Oregon.

Because of my interest in American history, I was drawn to retrace the Old Oregon Trail: 2,000 miles from ... I crossed the Rocky Mountains over the south pass, a much-dreaded route by overlanders.

The trail began in Independence, Missouri, and continued to the Willamette Valley in Oregon, where pioneers could decide to either stay put or continue north or south and settle. As the Oregon ...