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Photographed 4 September 2018.
South Pass
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South Pass was discovered in 1812
by a small party of Astorians led by
Robert Stuart as they traveled east
with dispatches for John Jacob
Astor. It was “rediscovered” in 1824
by a party led by Jedediah Smith as
they searched for a winter crossing
through the Wind River Mountain
Range. William Sublette led a small
caravan of wagons to South Pass in
1828. While the party did not take
the wagons over the pass, they
proved that wagon travel was
possible.
| | Captain Benjamin Bonneville took
the first wagons over South Pass
into the Green River Basin in 1832.
But it wa Lt. John Charles
Fremont who would be credited
with widely publicizing the route
over South Pass as a result of his
expedition in 1842. Scattered
references to the easy passage over
the Rocky Mountains has appeared
in newspapers for a decade, but
Fremont ignited enthusiasm for
South Pass by explaining that a
traveler could go th[r]ough the pass
without any “toilsome ascents.”
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With the discovery of South Pass,
the great western migration began.
Thousands of Mormons, future
Oregonians and Californians would
use the trail in the following twenty
years.
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Donated by the Trans Sierra Alliance, E. Clampus Vitus
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