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California National Historic TrailThousands of iron-rimmed emigrant wagon wheels have carved a deep cut into solid rock at near Guernsey, WY.
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The Silver Mountains and Bonneville Salt Flats along the Nevada and Utah border.  

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After struggling across nearly 100 miles of salt flats and soft, wet sand in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert in the late summer of 1846, the Donner-Reed wagon train reached the Silver Mountains and fresh water just north of this location along Interstate 80 near the Nevada/Utah border.
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