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Ahead of him Gavin turned slightly off the trail and pointed for the Gap, no more than a mile away.
As whites began to settle the western territories, the spring continued to serve as a major watering place on the southern route of the Gold Rush Trail of the early 1850s and continued in use well beyond that time, as the cross-continental trail turned into a major road for later pioneers coming into the area.
This new " Liberation Route " turned west from the trail at Muong May, at the southern end of Laos, and paralleled the Kong River into Cambodia.
After eight days on the trail, scaling heights of, Sverdrup concluded that it would not be practical for troops to traverse the route and turned back.
Schilling also turned up on the campaign trail several times stumping for McCain.
Afterwards the Commission turned its attention to the foot trail development, and by 1913 it was able to boast that 17 trails existed on the mountain.
From the steamboat landing on the Missouri, the trail went north up the Cow Creek bottom for miles to Davidson Coulee, at which time the trail turned west and climbed up a long steep grade on Davidson Ridge to reach the plains north of the Missouri River Breaks.
In 1890 he left the trail to try his hand at business, but the venture failed, so he turned his hand to gold-mining in Colorado and Nevada.
A hiking path leads past the telescope ; in 2004 part of this was turned into a planet trail with information panels about the Solar System with its planets.
But in the space of three laps, the race turned upside down as on lap 27, Barrichello in fourth began to trail smoke.
After decimating Spanish forces in the westernmost mountains of Cuba, Maceo turned eastward again, crossing the mentioned trail in order to travel to Las Villas or Camagüey.
Attractions include the former provost's cottage ( turned into an open-air museum ) and the Koschach nature trail.
Over 150 years after completion, much of the former Southside Railroad route remained in active use until 2005 when the corridor was abandoned and subsequently turned over to the Virginia DCR ( Dept of Conservation and Recreation ) for conversion to a rail trail linear park called High Bridge Trail State Park.
Joseph ’ s Nez Perce ambushed the scouts, killing 2 and wounding one, and Mason turned back, but after having learned that the Nez Perce were traveling the Lolo trail.
Gardner also contended that a trail in the drywall dust on the floor showed Nichols turned Wilhelm over and dragged him after shooting him.
As if a switch had been turned, as if an eye had been blinked, as if some phantom force in the universe had made a move eons beyond our comprehension, suddenly, there was no trail!
It was removed in 1957, to be turned into a recreational trail for horse and snowmobile riders.
There the trail turned west near present day Tie Siding, and proceeded along the Colorado / Wyoming border to Green River and to Fort Bridger where it struck the other emigrant trails.
In 1849, Lieutenant Abraham Buford, escorting the mail from Santa Fe to the east, turned south at McPherson, Kansas, to follow the recently blazed Evans / Cherokee Trail to Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, and then connected with another trail to nearby Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The trail then proceeded north through difficult terrain to Spanish Valley near today's Moab, Utah, where a ferry crossed the deep and wide Colorado River and then turned northwest to a ferry crossing on the similarly sized and dangerous Green River near present day Green River, Utah.
Entering the Great Basin in Utah via Salina Canyon, the trail turned southwest following the Sevier River, Santa Clara River and Virgin River before ascending the Mormon Plateau and hitting the Muddy River in present-day Nevada.
Descending Cajon Pass to reach the coastal plains, the trail turned west along the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains to where the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and El Pueblo de Los Ángeles in California were located.

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Rarely did a trail herd pass through the Injun country on its march north that it wasn't stopped to receive demand for `` wohaw ''.
Some companies such as Topdeck Travel were set up to specifically use buses to drive the hippie trail or travel to places like north Africa.
The trail is paved from the village of Leroy 16 miles north to Cadillac.
An accessible portion of the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge lies immediately north of the western bridge terminus, where the Ravenswood trail runs.
A trail is marked from the northern end of Lake George to the area near Fort Ticonderoga, which is located to the north of the mouth of the La Chute.
After the Vermillion River the trail angles north west to Nebraska paralleling the Little Blue River until reaching the south side of the Platte River.
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.
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.
Another possible crossing was a few miles upstream of Salmon Falls where some intrepid travelers floated their wagons and swam their stock across to join the north side trail.
The trails on the north side joined the trail from Three Island Crossing about west of Glenns Ferry on the north side of the Snake River.
The trail climbs past Vernal and Nevada Falls, then continues into Little Yosemite Valley, then north to the base of the northeast ridge of Half Dome itself.
In Destination Moon, the trail of the Syldavian-launched rocket points to a location north of the Danube.
The Wicklow Way, a long distance waymarked walking trail, passes through Glendalough on its way from Rathfarnham in the north to its southerly point of Clonegal in County Carlow.
A second party, led by Dr. John S. Ford and financed by a group of Austin merchants, pioneered a trail that ran north of the Davis Mountains before turning southward toward El Paso.
Isaac McCoy and Lt. James L. Dawson blazed a trail up the north side of the Arkansas from Fort Gibson to its junction with the Cimarron River.
Research is underway to determine the importance of an ancient trail that was noted by the crew of the 1839 re-survey of Township 17 north Range 2 west, which later became Beaverton Township.
The trail entered the county, east of Canton, then south of Galva, then north of Inman, and west towards Lyons.
* Sand Ramp Trail, a hiking trail within the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve which skirts the east and north of the dune field.
View ( looking north ) along the Daveys Gully walking trail.
Following the historic Hammond Lumber Company railroad grade, the trail begins at the Hammond Bridge – which crosses the Mad River near the Mad River County Park – and extends north to Clam Beach County Park just south of Little River State Beach.
The main thoroughfare leading north and south was Lenna Avenue and leading east and west was Highway Number 23, renamed Buffalo Avenue because of its erstwhile use as a buffalo trail, and then renamed again in 1989 to its current name, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd ( Hwy 574 ).
In January 2006 speed limit signs of 15 to 20 mph have been added to sections of the trail north of 96th Street which is the county line with Marion County ( Indianapolis.
From north to south, the route of the trail may be summarised by the following landmarks in order: Parachilna Gorge-Flinders Ranges National Park-Hawker-Quorn-Mount Remarkable National Park-Melrose-Crystal Brook-Spalding-Burra-Kapunda-Adelaide Hills-Deep Creek Conservation Park-Cape Jervis

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