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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › California_TrailCalifornia Trail - Wikipedia

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   The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about 1,600 mi (2,600 km) across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California. After it was established, the first half of the California Trail followed the same corridor of networked river valley trails as the Oregon Trail and the ...

2. highway50.usThe Digital Museum of U.S. Highway 50 – A Cultural History of ...

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   Circa 1920 California road map, featuring Highway 50 as the Lincoln Highway. The California Trail, the era’s most popular overland migration route into the state, brought thousands to the mining frontier. One of the trail’s most popular branches, Johnson’s Cutoff, ultimately became Highway 50’s path into California.

3. www.route50.com › historyUS50 - History of Highway 50 and Route 50

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   The primitive beginnings of the Highway 50 route through Colorado began in 1821 with Captain William Becknell's Santa Fé Trail. A debt-ridden Kentuckian -- no doubt influenced by stories of Zebulon Pike and a host of courageous mountain men -- Becknell left Missouri in '21 and headed west with a small pack train, and three companions.

4. www.legendsofamerica.com › california-trailThe California Trail – Rush to Gold - Legends of America

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   The California Trail carried over 250,000 gold-seekers and farmers to the goldfields and rich farmlands of the Golden State during the 1840s and 1850s, the greatest mass migration in American history. The general route began at various jumping-off points along the Missouri River and stretched to various points in California, Oregon, and the ...

5. andthewest.stanford.edu › 2019 › u-s-route-50-wasU.S. Route 50 Was the Best Way to the Pacific; Now, It’s a ...

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   Sep 24, 2019 · It was the birth of Route 50, a highway at the heart of the West. A course following the Overland Stage and Pony Express route through Utah and Nevada was the birth of Route 50, a highway at the heart of the West. The first big test of this route’s viability came 100 years ago, when the U.S. Army, flush with victory in World War I and needing ...

6. www.cahighways.org › ROUTE050California Highways (www.cahighways.org): Route 50

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   Sep 2, 2024 · Alternate US 50 is signed along a route consisting of county mileage and portions of Route 88 and Route 89. It runs from US 50 near Pollock Pines, then S and E on Sly Park Road and Mormon Emigrant Trail, including a 20 mi segment of National Forest Highway 5. It joins Route 89 at Picketts Junction, continuing until the north Route 89 junction ...

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   How did the California Trail become Highway 50?

   • The California Trail, the era’s most popular overland migration route into the state, brought thousands to the mining frontier. One of the trail’s most popular branches, Johnson’s Cutoff, ultimately became Highway 50’s path into California.

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   When did Highway 50 start?

   • The primitive beginnings of the Highway 50 route through Colorado began in 1821 with Captain William Becknell's Santa Fé Trail. A debt-ridden Kentuckian -- no doubt influenced by stories of Zebulon Pike and a host of courageous mountain men -- Becknell left Missouri in '21 and headed west with a small pack train, and three companions.

   US50 - History of Highway 50 and Route 50

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   Why did Route 50 end in Sacramento?

   • The route was truncated when U.S. Route 50 arrived on the Eastern Shore due to the impending completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and as a result US 213 no longer crossed US 13. he Bay Bridge opened in 1952. Highway 50 and the Lincoln Highway share history from Ely, Nevada to San Francisco, California. Today US 50 ends in Sacramento.

   US50 - History of Highway 50 and Route 50

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   Where did Route 50 start?

   • Route 50 was never where the West began. It is where it existed and still exists, rolling through quintessential western geography — desert lands and the mountains between them. The industries along it were and are extractive. Other businesses along the route were built to carry something across long, empty distances.

   U.S. Route 50 Was the Best Way to the Pacific; Now, It’s a Road to the

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   When did Route 50 become a freeway?

   • By the mid-1960s, Route 50 was temporarily placed on the 29/30 Freeway (co-signed with US 99 E and I- 80) between the current Route 51 /US 50/Route 99 junction and Folsom Boulevard; this arrangement only lasted until the El Dorado Freeway (US 50 east of the Route 99 interchange) was completed.

   California Highways (www.cahighways.org): Route 50

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   What happened to Route 50 in Nevada?

   • Interstate 80’s appearance meant the abandonment of Route 50 as a significant cross-country route. In Nevada, it is now a road to the past. Traveling eastwards in 2019 over 400 miles of Nevada’s Route 50 — almost the end of the route the military convoy took westwards — the changes wrought by the last century are palpable.

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8. www.oregonencyclopedia.org › articles › californiaOregon–to–California Trail (1820s–1860s)

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   The trail, which began as a rough trappers’ route, became a crucial overland link that eventually established the course of a north-south rail line and a modern highway on the West Coast. Horse-mounted Hudson’s Bay Company fur trappers, operating out of Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River , began using the northernmost section of what became the Oregon–to–California Trail during the ...