The Green River, just
west of South Pass, was from 1825
to 1840 the site of the annual
rendezvous of the mountain men and a main thoroughfare for mountain
trappers. It remained an important landmark for emigrants on the Oregon
Trail and for Forty-niners on their way to the California gold
fields. Following these pathfinders, the Union Pacific Railroad crossed
the Green River west of South Pass in 1868, on the last part of its
journey to Promintory
Point, Utah.
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