Jeffrey City Wyoming. A uranium mine nearby gave Jeffrey City a brief boom in the 50s and then even briefer in the 80s. It is now a ghost town with a few hardy residents.
Jeffrey City Wyoming. A uranium mine nearby gave Jeffrey City a brief boom in the 50s and then even briefer in the 80s. It is now a ghost town with a few hardy residents.
Entrance to the Willie Handcart historic site. An important historic location to the Mormon migration.
Entrance to the Willie Handcart historic site. An important historic location to the Mormon migration.
Dilapidated wagon at Willie Handcart historic site. An important historic location to the Mormon migration.
Along the Oregon trail heading from 6th crossing up to Rocky Ridge. A very popular stretch of Oregon and Mormon Trail for folks who want to walk an original section of the Trails.
Sweetwater River near the seventh crossing along the Oregon Trail heading up to the Rocky Mountains and South Pass. Wyoming
Bart along the Oregon Tail heading up to Rocky ridge and South Pass.
Monument designating location of the rescue of the Willie Handcart Company who were starving and freezing in bitter winds of an early winter storm in October of 1856. it is an important location to the Mormon migration to Salt Lake.
Remnants of former town of Lewiston a few miles west of Rocky ridge. Wyoming.
Remnants of former town of Lewiston a few miles west of Rocky ridge. Wyoming.
Memorial to the 15 members of the Willie handcart Company who passed away from hunger and exposer near this vicinity along Rock Creek Wyoming.
Fenced gravesite of unknown travelers along the Oregon trail near Rock Creek crossing, Wyoming.
Richard and Connie Wakefield, husband and wife volunteers at the Rock Creek Camp which is operated by the Church of the Latter day Saints. They cooked me up both dinner and a breakfast.
Saloon at small hamlet of Atlantic City. Wyoming.
South Pass, where the Oregon/California/Pony Express/Mormon Trails cross from the Atlantic drainage to the Pacific drainage.. The stone memorial was placed by Ezra Meeker.
Bart at South Pass, where the Oregon/California/Pony Express/Mormon Trails cross from the Atlantic drainage to the Pacific drainage.. The stone memorial on the right was placed by Ezra Meeker.
Metal sculpture over historic pullout entrance along HW 28 near South Pass, Wyoming.
Rainbow along HW 28 nearing South Pass Wyoming.
Remnants of the Ghost town of Pacific Springs, a few miles west of South Pass Wyoming.
Remnants of the Ghost town of Pacific Springs, a few miles west of South Pass Wyoming.
Walking the Oregon Trail 2012 