Historical Marker
The Oregon Trail
Fremont County · Wyoming
Erected by Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming, 1943
The stone's heading year belongs to the first emigrant wagons over this road. John Bidwell's diary has his company of Missouri emigrants, traveling with Father De Smet's Jesuits under the mountain man Thomas Fitzpatrick, camped at Independence Rock on July 5, 1841, then working up this valley through the following days. By July 18 they were on the Big Sandy, west of South Pass, with the thirty-five miles the stone measures already behind them. Bonneville's supply train had taken wagons over in 1832, but these were the first emigrants'.
What the plaque says
The Oregon Trail 1841 Continental Divide at South Pass 35 miles west. Erected by the Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming. 1943
Where it stands
42.54431, -108.18853 · Directions
More markers nearby
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