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Making America's Best Idea Even Better
California National Historic TrailDuring the Gold Rush, new jumping-off places were developed further up the Missouri River such as this one at St Joseph, Missouri to shorten
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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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