Amazing Oregon Trail Swales in Wyoming

The Child’s Cutoff of the Oregon Trail was opened in 1850. This new route allowed emigrants who had been following the Council Bluffs Road along the north bank of the Platte River to remain on the north side and so avoid having to cross the North Platte at Fort Laramie and then again in the area near what’s now Casper, Wyo. Wyoming historian and OCTA member Kylie L. McCormick takes us to pristine trail swales near Douglas, Wyoming

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