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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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Photo image of a circa 1800s Union Pacific Railroad engine.  

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It is estimated that between 350,000 and 500,000 people emigrated to the west between the 1840s and 1870s. They came by ox drawn wagons, on foot, & pulling hand carts until the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads completed a rail line in May of 1869 at Promotory Point in Northern Utah.
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