Emigrants heading west on the California Trail had to cross the Jordan River. A sign marks the spot of the Hastings Cutoff, a supposed short cut hyped by Lansford Hastings that proved disastrous for pioneers swayed by his self-serving promotion, as the cutoff led to the Great Salt Lake mudflats, where wagons became bogged down.
Place name
Jordan River Parkway
Drainage
Jordan River
Latitude
40°43'6.46"N
Longitude
111°55'14.11"W
Date
2009-11-06
Creator
Craig Denton
Type
image
Format
image.tif
Rights
Craig L. Denton 2009. Use of this file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
