Pioneer Graffiti
« Back to Public Land - The BLM-The Big Open, August 2001 National Geographic Magazine
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Nineteenth century inscriptions attest to the fortitude of emigrants who crossed the plains into central Wyoming on the Oregon Trail. Many paused to carve their names near Independence Rock and Devil's Gate. Ahead lay greater travails: little water, few buffalo, the Continental Divide.
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