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Description the "impassable" region beyond is one of the remarkable pioneering achievements in the West. With some 80 wagons and over 1000 cattle, the Mormon party left Escalante late in 1879 planning to reach their destination in six weeks. It took them six months instead. They traveled 200 miles through a region where wagons had never been before and they built road most of the way, much of it worked in solid rock. The expedition crossed Glen Canyon just south of the Escalante River where a natural... Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 14,319,616 bytes

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