Sand Springs - A Stop on the Oregon Trail
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JacobBarlow
N 42° 37.584 W 109° 39.538
12T E 609966 N 4720200
Located on the Pinedale-Rock Springs Road (Highway 187) approximately half way to Farson, a marker reads:
Waymark Code: WM1Z5H
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 08/07/2007
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This Site is a crossing of the Lander Cut-off - the northern fork of the Oregon Trail, following a route of the fur traders. It was suggested as an emigrant road by Mountain Man John Hockaday in order to avoid alkali plains of the desert, shorten the trip to the Pacific by five days and provide more water, grass and wood. In 1857 it was improved as a wagon road by the Government under the supervision of F.W. Lander and termed the Fort Kearney-South Pass-Honey Lake Road. As many as three hundred wagons and thousands of cattle, horses and mules passed here each day. An expanding nation moved with hope and high courage. The trail, cut deep into the dirt of the plains and the mountains, remains as a reminder of a great epoch."
The sign was erected in Late June of 1965 with the help of the B.L.M., Dept. of Interior, and Sublette County Historical Society.