The Pioneers, on their way to the Salt Lake Valley, quit the Oregon Trail, which turned north, and begin the last leg of their journey, following Hastings Cutoff, the barely visible track left through the Rockies by the Reed-Donner party of 1846, which perished in the Sierra snows.
[source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
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