Up The Hill
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Up The Hill
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
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Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Finished Photograph.
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This photograph was made about 100 yards west of the deep Oregon Trail Rut site near Guernsey, Wyoming. It was over terrain similar to this covered wagons traveled as brave pioneers advanced upward toward the South Pass crossing.
South Pass, at an elevation of 7,412 feet, is the collective term for two mountain passes on the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming. The passes are located in a broad low region, 35 miles wide, between the Wind River Range to the north and the Oregon Buttes and Great Divide Basin to the south, in southwestern Fremont County, approximately 35 miles south - southwest of Lander. South Pass is the lowest point on the Continental Divide between the Central Rocky Mountains and the Southern Rocky Mountains and provided a natural crossing point. Now designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark, the pass became the route for emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails to the West during the 19th century.
Image copyright 2015 Jon Burch Photography
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July 26th, 2014
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