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WESTERN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY
APPLEGATE TRAIL
A PARTY OF 15 MEN, STYLED THE SOUTH ROAD
EXPEDITION, AS LED BY CAPT. LEVI SCOTT, JESSE
APPLEGATE, AND DAVID GOFF, CROSSED THE 42ND
PARALLEL ON LATE JULY 4, 1846. IT WAS BLAZING
A ROAD ON WHICH TO LEAD AMERICANS FROM HARM,
FREE OF THE IMPENDING WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN.
SOUTH WAS MEXICO - AT WAR WITH THE UNITED
STATES SINCE MAY 13, 1846. GREAT BRITAIN AND
THE U.S. SIGNED A TREATY ON JUNE 15, 1846,
SETTING OREGON'S NORTH LINE AT LAT 49N. SCOTT'S
PARTY LEFT RICKREAL CREEK ON JUNE 20. THEY
HEARD THE TREATY STORY AT FORT HALL.
AS NO WAR BEGAN WITH THE BRITISH, THIS ROUTE
BLAZED EASTERLY SERVED AS A WAGON ROAD FOR
IMMIGRATION TO OREGON. FEB. 2, 1848, SAW THE
LARGE MEXICAN CESSION ADDED TO BLOCK-UP THE
WESTERN UNITED STATES. AND THE ROAD? IT
BECAME THE SCENE OF MORE INDIAN-WHITE KILLINGS
THAN ALL OTHER WESTERN ROUTES COMBINED.
THIS POINT WAS RECORDED BY U.S. SURVEYOR
DANIEL MAJOR, IN RUNNING THE STATE LINE FROM
HIS OWN 120TH MERIDIAN. HE TRIANGULATED OVER
LOWER KLAMATH LAKE NOV. 5, 1868, 94M-66.5 CH
"CROSSED EMIGRANT ROAD TO JACKSONVILLE."
THAT POINT LIES UNDER THIS MONUMENT.
July 4,1996
FL-LJ
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