Where History Happened! You are looking Southwest. Here the "49'ers" Faced 300 miles of This Wasteland, and Then They Faced the Notorious "Forty Mile Desert"!
California Trail, 2.5mi NW of Wells, NV. No water or forage for the oxen for 40 miles! Only after another second 40 mi of desert trials would rest and sustenance be available at Donner Lake. But then they had to face Donner Pass in the High Sierra Mountains. Donner Pass required hand-lifting the covered wagons, piece-by-piece, up a near vertical rock-strewn granite cliff as shown in my photo.
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