American Experience: Scouting the Route
Piedmont, Wyoming
In Nevada especially, along the long-abandoned original line, we'd find spots where the only traces of a town were a few foundations sprouting weeds and a graveyard with four or five markers to the people who had the bad fortune to die there.
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In the Sierra Nevada, California Donner Lake, California Western Nevada desert Western Nevada desert Eastern Nevada desert Eastern Nevada desert near the Great Salt Lake, Utah Promontory Summit, Utah Ogden, Utah Echo, Utah Piedmont, Wyoming Piedmont, Wyoming near Green River, Wyoming near Green River, Wyoming Point of Rocks, Wyoming Sherman, Wyoming Dale Creek, Wyoming Dix, Nebraska Julesburg, Colorado Roscoe, Nebraska North Platte, Nebraska Brady, Nebraska Shelton, Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska