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Show 649 he went over a large part of the trail himself four times. As far as can be determined, the " Spanish Trail" was first laid out by William Wolfskill, who was the first man to establish a fruit farm in Los Angeles and who went over the trail in 1830. The trail was used after that annually in each direction by a caravan from Monterey to Santa Fe and from Santa Fe to Monterey, interchanging goods at different localities. Los Angeles was also a destination, Monterey being the headquarters at that time, Santa Fe, a thriving town in 1830, was the capitol of New Mexico, and before that Monterey was the headquarters of the missions on the Pacific Coast. R. 1562. Jedidiah Smith was the first Mormon to go through to Southern California, he believes in 1827. He went from what is now Salt Lake City, down past Utah Lake and up the Sevier River. He crossed from the Sevier River about where Parowan, Utah, is now located, and continued over to Nevada about where the railroad [ the Salt Lake Route] cuts the state line and bit the head of Meadow Valley Wash and down the Muddy River now called the Adam's River. Manly, of whom he had previously spoken, had nothing to do with the " Spanish Trail". They were trying to get to California in 1849. As he had made an attempt to go down Green River, he joined a party to go to California. He got on the Green River at what is now Green River, Wyoming, and he left the green River in the Uintah Valley. |
