Show Famous Fous Trails of Old West Now Geographically Located w S e 1 ORE O q L LAND AND ITS IT'S ITSe e Ia OM TO 17 spaS spaS- LM E I 5 e II I J Ocr bG NEBRASKA 7 I 5 h- h o oF Q M F I 7 o I t- t 4 e ers rs UTAH 6 J i ii i 0 C. C 7 COLORADO L 0 D 0 A rj L 0 R. R I 0 I P 4 L. L 0 GON F. F e G 0 I TRAI L r i- i 0 9 4 ERS ANO TH E. E PONY OP TO FT BRI COER crt cA L I F FO 0 R N I IA r TRAI L. L OF i 1849 8 4 9 BRANCH p. 1 C H ING O eGON TRAIL ON RAFT RIVER IDAHO ri j I All IL a EXPRESS AND EMt E-IAP-E-r E Ar AN CUT a OFF IN tri USE 1869 1809 FORT e SAlT lAKE CALU ORNIA S roo IOD I 7 84 l g PONY h 1 I I I 1 I C. C T-OJ T FORT vO GAN 0 DENVER 1 V E. E F F ORT FORT COLlINS L I 4 8 C C C 55 LAT lATER EJ E. E R. R L 4 D Vot II- II L L LINE I P-I P E. E 5 SALT A LT LAs 5 CAR TRAi DENVER Colo Cob June 27 AP AP- AP j AP-j The courses traveled by the pioneers pioneers pioneers pio pio- of the west are much better better better bet bet- ter known by students today than by those hardy adventurers This is the result of five years spent by Professor Archer Butler Hulbert in mapping the trails He HeIs Heis Heis is with the Stewart commission on western history at Colorado college Colorado Springs The Oregon Santa Fe and Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon trails the route of the pony express those lines of ot O communication communication cation made famous by Kit Carson John C. C Fremont Buffalo Bill Jini Jim Bridger and others have been traced an and mapped in terms of section sec see tion township and range The trek of overland wagon trains the westward push of the pony express and nd Its allied caravans caravans caravans cara cara- vans vans the routes they traversed the places wh where re they st stopped now are definitely known for the first time A A general map of the roads of ot Fremont remont Carson and the Forty- Forty shows lines following the shadow cast east today by the airmail airman planes as they wing their way across the continent The he landing places usually are near points made famous a century ago aso by overland cara caravans vans If in imagination declares Professor ProCessor Hulbert one swings the old Oregon trail tran or the SantaFe Santa SantaFe Fe trail trait eastward from Crom froni Independence ence Mo Io Instead of westward he will find a clearer Idea of the length of the journey which the covered caravans made from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast I I Gong east on the Oregon trail one would cross South Pass in northwestern northwestern north north- western Pennsylvania and find that Portland Ore was in Nova ova Scotia Going east on the Santa Fe trail trall one would find that Santa Fe was in the Tennessee mountains and that Los Angeles was was was' miles beyond Cape Hatteras in the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic lactic ocean With this rearrangement of the routes one can readily grasp the magnitude of the trips undertaken by those intrepid pioneers who carried car car- car tied ried civilization into the wilds beyond beyond be be- I yond the Ohio river The rhe work vork of Professor Hulbert I t- t I was accomplished t through ugh the co cooperation cooperation cooperation co- co operation of the tho American Geographical Geographical Geographical Geo Geo- graphical society the library of congress Harvard Yale ale and oth other r universities The results results' have been compiled Into five five- volumes containing some maps showing show show- ing about abet miles of trails traUs In more than 2300 townships In Iii 1 12 western vestern states The work is to to be followed b by the compiling and editing of ot Journals journals journals Jour jour- nals and diaries of the pioneers which form a documentary history of the west from the war of f 18 1812 2 to the completion of dt the Union Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- I railroad ALEXANDER I |