Oregon Trail 10: Scotts Bluff National Monument - Fort Laramie National Historic Site
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 58.02 mi
- Elevation gain
- 840 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 705 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,333 ft
- TrailRank
- 26
- Min elevation
- 3,921 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- one hour 6 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2039
- Uploaded
- April 11, 2020
- Recorded
- April 2020
near Gering, Nebraska (United States)
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The designers of The Oregon Trail video game displayed impressive faithfulness to source material. They probably researched the sites included in the game, and found the attached picture taken by William Henry Jackson in 1870. Jackson had served in the American Civil War before he relocated to Omaha, NE and pursued the nascent art of photography. On a federally-funded expedition across Wyoming to Yellowstone with geologist and fellow veteran Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, Jackson assembled a photography portfolio that helped justify establishing the area as the first American National Park. One of his photographs captured what is now Fort Laramie National Historic Site.
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