The film, titled Tabloid, features interviews with Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming, who was convicted in absentia for the kidnap and indecent assault of a Mormon missionary in England during 1977.

The approximately 1, 900 mile route roughly followed the Oregon Trail, and California Trail to Fort Bridger in Wyoming and then the Mormon Trail ( known as the Hastings Cutoff ) to Salt Lake City, Utah.

One of the better known ferries was the Mormon Ferry across the North Platte near the future site of Fort Caspar in Wyoming which operated between 1848 and 1852 and the Green River ferry near Fort Bridger which operated from 1847 to 1856.

In 1847, Brigham Young and the Mormon pioneers departed from the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming and followed ( and much improved ) the rough trail originally recommended by Lansford Hastings to the Donner Party in 1846 through the Wasatch Mountains into Utah.

As church president, Taylor oversaw the expansion of the Salt Lake community, the further organization of the church hierarchy, the establishment of Mormon colonies in Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona as well as in the Canadian province of Alberta and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, and the defense of plural marriage against increasing opposition.

Below there, it flows through open sage covered rolling prairie where it is crossed by the Oregon, California and Mormon emigration trails and then further south until it flows past the town of Green River and into the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Southwestern Wyoming, formed by the Flaming Gorge Dam in northeastern Utah.

By 1843 the Sweetwater River valley was a regular wagon trail providing the water, grass and fuel needed on the Oregon, California and Mormon Trails across Wyoming.

After suffering under persecution in several states, including a government-ordered expulsion from Missouri and the assassination of Joseph Smith by a mob in Illinois, Brigham Young was called to succeed Joseph Smith and led the Mormon pioneers to settle a large area now encompassed by the state of Utah and parts of Arizona, California, Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming.

During the last week of June, Sam Brannan, leader of the Mormon emigrant ship Brooklyn, met the company near Green River, Wyoming.

Smith led a group of Nauvoo Legion rangers east across Wyoming along the stretch where the California, Oregon and Mormon Trails merge.

He and his hunting companions sold meat, hides and some live animals to the emigrants along the Emigrant Trails near where the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail split away from each other ( southwestern Wyoming ).

The trail proceeded west along the route of present Interstate 80, finally joining the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails near Granger, Wyoming.

" During this conflict, known as the Utah War, Mormon militia were asked to engage in diversionary action on the plains and in Wyoming.

* Mormon communities in Wyoming

Between 1848 and 1868, South Pass was the preferred crossing point for emigrants westward, most of whom followed the Sweetwater River across Wyoming to its headwaters, following the Central Route.

) After the rail line's initial steep climb through the bluffs of west Omaha and out of the Missouri River Valley, the route followed the Platte River west through Nebraska, establishing many townships along the way ( Elkhorn, Grand Island, North Platte, Ogallala, Sidney, Nebraska ), the Colorado Territory ( Julesburg ), the Wyoming Territory ( Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Evanston ), the Utah Territory ( Ogden, Brigham City, Corinne ), and connecting with the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.

Through Nebraska it followed the Great Platte River Road, cutting through Gothenburg, Nebraska and passing Courthouse Rock, Chimney Rock, and Scotts Bluff, clipping the edge of Colorado at Julesburg, Colorado, before arriving at Fort Laramie in Wyoming.

After ferrying across the Missouri River and establishing wagon trains near what became Omaha, Nebraska, the Mormons followed the northern bank of the Platte River in Nebraska to Fort Laramie in present day Wyoming.

From there the trail followed Big Piney Creek west before passing over the Thompson Pass in the Wyoming Range.

The main Oregon and California Trail went almost due north from Fort Bridger to the Little Muddy Creek where it passed over the Bear River Mountains to the Bear River valley, which it followed northwest into the Thomas Fork area, where the trail crossed over the present day Wyoming line into Idaho.

Instead, the main trail lay farther to the east and followed Prairie Dog Creek, eventually leaving that drainage and taking a course now occupied by 5th street in Sheridan, Wyoming.

The trail generally followed rivers to South Pass, a mountain pass in Wyoming relatively easy for wagons to negotiate.

South of Ashland, continuing up the valley, there is another 20 miles of paved road, then another 38 miles of gravel roads to the pavement above the Tongue River Reservoir, followed by 10 miles of pavement to the Montana / Wyoming state line.

About beyond what is now Casper, Wyoming the main emigration trails left the North Platte valley and followed the Sweetwater River valley and other river valleys going further west.

The California and Oregon Trails followed the Bear River north out of Wyoming to Fort Hall in Idaho.

From their confluence there the combined trails followed in succession the Platte, North Platte, and Sweetwater rivers westward across the full widths of Nebraska and Wyoming, and crossed the continental divide south of the Wind River Range through South Pass in southwestern Wyoming.

It was the first in a trilogy, followed by Thunderhead ( 1943 ) and Green Grass of Wyoming ( 1946 ).

It was followed by film adaptations of the other two novels, Thunderhead, Son of Flicka in 1945 and Green Grass of Wyoming in 1948.

This strategy was evident in the chain's cautious contiguous expansion into Colorado Springs, Colorado, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Mason, Ohio in 2005, followed by a new opening in Bowling Green, Kentucky in July 2006.

He served two terms, followed by a stint in the Wyoming State Senate from 1973 to 1976.

He then followed a former lecturer, Dick Kiger, to Wyoming, where he helped start a company that provided computer services nationwide, before moving on to another company in Dallas, Texas.

From Wellington, it followed various roads back to the current I-25, where it continued north and terminated at the Wyoming border.

After crossing the Green the main trail continues on in an approximate southwest direction until it encounters the Blacks Fork of the Green River and Fort Bridger Wyoming.

From there the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff trail had to cross a mountain range to connect with the main trail near Cokeville, Wyoming in the Bear River valley.

The Lander Road departs the main trail at Burnt Ranch near South Pass, crosses the Continental Divide north of South Pass and reaches the Green River near the present town of Big Piney, Wyoming.

Interstate 25 is the main north – south expressway through Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.

The main city park in Wyoming is Thomas Park and there is also a Thomas street in honor of General Thomas.

Also a part of Clinton's history is the Wyoming house, a historic frame house that consists of three separate and distinct sections: the main block built in the third quarter of the 18th century, a c. 1800 kitchen, and a connecting two-bay section of c. 1850.

But his main views of the Johnson County War were ultimately proved true, and never again did the cattle barons attempt to invade Wyoming.

Founded in 1965, the main base is located in Lander, Wyoming, NOLS world headquarters ; satellite branches are located in Vernal, Utah and Boulder, Wyoming.

The main army left Easton on June 18, marching 58 miles to an encampment on the Bullock farm in the Wyoming Valley, which it reached on June 23.

Union Pacific Railroad ( UP ) introduced the Challenger-type ( 4-6-6-4 ) locomotives in 1936 on its main line across Wyoming.

A rail spur line extends to the mine sites from the BNSF main line near Sheridan, Wyoming allows this coal to be shipped by rail to coal-fired electric generating plants all over the United States.

The main trail crossed near where the Big Sandy River joins the Green River in Wyoming.

They are separated from the Absaroka Range, which lie on the main branch of the Rockies in western Wyoming, by the Bighorn Basin.

There were 71 restaurants as of April 2012, with about a third owned by the main company and two-thirds by franchisees, in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.

The three women were joined by a larger group of women church members from Mississippi who merged with the main party at Laramie, Wyoming.

Such melting is the main source of surface water in Wyoming.

The room on the Remount Ranch outside Cheyenne, Wyoming where Mary O ' Hara wrote " My Friend Flicka " was added to the main house by Mary O ' Hara and her husband around 1931.