Circle Those Wagons Traditional Cache
LaughingGravy: this one has been replaced one too many times, time to archive. apologies. bea (momma)_gravy
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It is hard to believe that between 1840 and 1850 the pioneers heading for California circled their wagons were the Reno-Sparks convention center now stands. This is an easy small cache container, but it is rated a 2 & 2 because it is not easy to find a safe place to park.
According to the “TRAILS WEST -- MARKERS OF THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL” Website at: www.emigranttrailswest.org
Walt Mulcahy described the original emigrant trail as a single, fixed route that remained unchanged throughout the emigrant period of the 1840s and 50s. He believed the trail went all the way through the Truckee River Canyon, coming out at its mouth on the south side of the river near the present water treatment facility. Immediately after leaving the canyon, according to Mulcahy, emigrants confronted impenetrable sloughs (associated with present Steamboat Creek) which forced them to travel south about 4-1/2 miles, through present Hidden Valley, over a pass or ridge, to a point where they could cross Steamboat Creek. From this crossing, emigrants with their wagons turned west along the north side of Huffaker Hills to some springs and meadows where emigrants camped, after which they continued northwest from the base of Rattlesnake Mountain, by the present Reno-Sparks Convention Center, to the Truckee River near the later Mayberry Crossing. Mulcahy found impressive trail ruts running south of Hidden Valley and equally impressive wagon artifacts and springs at the base of Huffaker Hills/Rattlesnake Mountain that were obliterated by housing developments. Knowing the later Henness Pass Toll Road to Virginia City of the early 1860's followed this route alignment; Mulcahy assumed this later freighting road was laid over the earlier emigrant trail.
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