ArdraF
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Yes, and you can still see where wagons rutted the Oregon Trail and our other famous trails going across the frontier.
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Jim Dick said:Ardra,
Some of those ruts will never disappear. George Akers took us to some in Wyoming that were about a foot deep in solid rock!!! Just imagine all the wagons that had to pass in order to carve out ruts that deep!
Carl L said:A lot of wagons but remember those wagon wheels were rimmed with steel, not rubber.
Jim Dick said:Ardra,
Some of those ruts will never disappear. George Akers took us to some in Wyoming that were about a foot deep in solid rock!!! Just imagine all the wagons that had to pass in order to carve out ruts that deep!
Yes there are and I have seen several of them even in Nebraska. One thing a lot of folks are not aware of is that when those early travelers reached Fort Laraimie, Wyo is when they got their first look of the rockies in the distance which were known to be very challanging to cross. They called the rockies the Black Hills. Now I suspect the guy that named the Black Hills of SD may have been lost. ;D Sam has a copy of one of her relatives diary written when he crossed to CA with the 49ers and even in that diary he mentions seeing the black hills to the west from Fort Laramie. Oh BTW you can't see the black Hills of SD from old Fort Laramie.Jim Dick said:Ron,
I'm sure there are lots of tracks left all along that trail. I really enjoyed watching those two programs on both trails.
Jim Dick said:Ron,
I'm sure there are lots of tracks left all along that trail. I really enjoyed watching those two programs on both trails.
Carl L said:Traveling east of Reno one year, we ran across the trace of the old Pony Express Trail still visible and so labeled by a marker.
ArdraF said:Mention of the stagecoach trail reminds me that Jerry's parents had 80 acres near Fayetteville AR. They learned after buying it that the Butterfield Stage went across their property (obviously long before they owned it!) and there probably was a stagecoach stop there at a wonderful sweet water spring.
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Barb said:Also there is the National Trails Museum in Independence, Mo. Where all the western trails began. Excellent museum. They also have wagon ruts.
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Lowell said:Picture of wagon ruts in rock on Oregon Trail near Ft. Laramie, WY. (son and granddaughter)