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KAI
Presented to the
MOJAVE EMPIRE by the
BARSTOW WOMENS CLUB
of the MOJAVE
You are now trave
ling the Old Mojave Trail.
a natural river bed high-
way. First Used by
UTE,MOHAVE, CHEMEHUEVI and
PAHUTE Indians on
on the
1776 PADRE GARCEZ of ARIZONA
who described it in his diary.
1826-JEDEDIAH SMITH of
Salt Lake hunter & trapper,
IV
1829 William WOLFSKILL of
New Mexico first of the Annual
Caravan Traders bound for the Coast,
move,
Story
RIVER-BED TRAIL.
1844 CAPT. JOHN C.FREMONT
Pathfinder and Mapmaker.
disbanded in Los Angeles
1848 MORMON BATTALION,
and bound for Utah.
-VII-
1849 First Wagons of the
GOLD SEEKERS.
Thereafter used continually
by MORMONS, IMMIGRANTS.
FORTUNE-SEEKERS. FREIGHTERS,
MILITARY EXPEDITIONS and
SIGHT SEEING TOURISTS.
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STORY OF THE MOJAVE TRAIL. The great MOJAVE DESERT
ranges over 50 blistering valleys and wind scarred hills.
In ancient geologic times great chains of warm lakes was
linked by the Mojave River. The area supported a life of
tropical verdure and roaming prehistoric animals. Today
the road follows the dry Mojave River, passes numerous
small desert towns with a scattering of desert shacks, rises
several times over low mountain chains and crosses over
cracked mud flats and dry lakes...M.P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
Published by Royal Pictures, Colton, California
AC-187
5000
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