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California National Historic TrailIndepence Square & Courthouse, Independence, Missouri
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Oregon, California, & Mormon emigrants, as well as Pony Express riders traveled over South Pass, Wyoming  

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Until discovered by William Sublette in the 1830s, most Americans thought the Rocky Mountains were impassable. Lewis and Clark passed through the Rockies north of this location, via the Missouri River in 1805.
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