The Hastings Cutoff was an alternative route for westward emigrants to travel to California, as proposed by Lansford Hastings in The Emigrant's Guide...

Donner Party was slowed after electing to follow a new route called the Hastings Cutoff, which bypassed established trails and instead crossed the Rocky Mountains'...

Lansford Warren Hastings (1819–1870) was an American explorer and Confederate soldier. He is best remembered as the developer of Hastings Cutoff, a claimed...

Lansford Hastings in 1846, the Hastings Cutoff left the California Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming. In 1846 the party, guided by Hastings, passed successfully...

the main trail and followed (and improved) the rough path known as Hastings Cutoff, used by the ill-fated Donner Party in 1846. Between 1847 and 1860...

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with Lansford Hastings by way of a new route, which will soon be known as Hastings Cutoff. Clyman urges the emigrants to avoid Hastings Cutoff and take the...

Lansford Hastings and his "Hastings Cutoff," Tamsen Donner was wary of the gamble of trusting Hastings on his word. No one had actually met Hastings, and...

the West and North. As the trail developed it became marked by numerous cutoffs and shortcuts from Missouri to Oregon. The basic route follows river valleys...

by Lansford Hastings, a lawyer and the author of The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California; Hastings' book promoted the Hastings Cutoff, which was...

the Hastings Cutoff alternative route to California, came by in 1846. Journal entries and interviews describe the Donner Party meeting the "Hastings Trail"...

modified routing of a lesser used branch of the trail called Hastings Cutoff. The cutoff rejoins the main route of the trail in the Humboldt River canyon...

Bonneville Salt Flats Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative Hastings Cutoff Hidden Cave, an archaeological cave site located in the Great Basin...

Kelsey and wife Edward Rogers James Ross Richard Williams and wife Hastings Cutoff Nunis, Doyce, ed. (1991). The Bidwell-Bartleson Party: 1841 California...

crossing the desert and in the 1840s, westward emigrants used the Hastings Cutoff through 130 miles (210 km) of Great Salt Lake desert to reduce the...

City-Provo-Orem, UT Combined Statistical Area. An early route of the Hastings Cutoff ran through the Morgan Valley and down through a narrow gorge in Weber...

California immigrants and forging what would later be known at the "Hastings Cutoff" across the south end of the Great Salt Lake. The Donner Party followed...

to Fort Bridger in Wyoming, and then the Mormon Trail (known as the Hastings Cutoff) to Salt Lake City, Utah. From there, it followed the Central Nevada...

landmark for their crossing of the Great Salt Lake Desert, part of the Hastings Cutoff emigrant route. Running out of water, they had to temporarily abandon...

original route used by pioneers entering the area. It was part of the Hastings Cutoff route used by the Donner Party in 1846 (not affiliated with the Mormon...

California Trail, modern 2100 South is a less common branch called Hastings Cutoff that became infamous because of the Donner Party. The Lincoln Highway...

through the range at Flower Pass (which was itself part of the historic Hastings Cutoff route). Both of these railways now operate under Union Pacific Railroad...

for a time. He was a member of the first recorded crossing of the Hastings Cutoff in 1850. Abbotts Lagoon in the Point Reyes National Seashore is named...

decided to split off from the main trail and take a new route called the Hastings Cutoff, which had been advertised as a shortcut across the Great Basin. They...

the Shafter Subdivision, loosely follows the historical route of the Hastings Cutoff, tunneling underneath the Pequop Mountains and crossing the Toano Range...

landmark in Tooele Valley ever since the first pioneers traversed the Hastings Cutoff trail. Though not officially a national monument like its nearby peer...

Hastings set out with teams of men in recruiting settlers to use the Hastings Cutoff. Many of the settlers who tried the new route found it very challenging...

for the Overland Pass route across the Ruby Mountains – part of the Hastings Cutoff. Overland Pass was also the site of much activity in the 1860s. A transportation...

40.978823°N 117.741971°W / 40.978823; -117.741971 3 West End of Hastings Cutoff Elko 4 Junction House—The First Settlement Washoe 39°29′20″N 119°47′42″W...

the highest importance"[10]―as a source in their research on the "Hastings Cutoff"[11] since Lienhard and his friends were among the first to cross that...