https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw en-us 2023-09-20 17:01:19 UTC 2023-09-24 23:43:51 UTC hello@padlet.com 26staisch https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2713197590 Fort Ross was established by the Russian-American Fur Company in 1812 for the threefold purpose of exploiting the rich fur hunting grounds of the California coast, opening trade with Spanish California, and providing an agricultural depot to supply Russian settlements in Alaska.]]> 2023-09-20 17:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2713197590 26staisch https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2713234349 Chimney Rock has become one of the most famous landmarks in the American West, largely due to its stop along the Oregon Trail. This unique formation came to symbolize the greatest voluntary migration in the history of mankind.]]> 2023-09-20 17:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2713234349 26staisch https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2713237133 Fort Laramie played an important role hosting several treaty negotiations with the Northern Plains Indian Nations, the most famous of which were the Horse Creek Treaty of 1851 and the still controversial and contested Treaty of 1868.]]> 2023-09-20 17:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2713237133 26staisch https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2718282416 Chimney rock is a popular hiking spot now. ]]> 2023-09-24 23:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2718282416 26staisch https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2718286382 Devil's Gate marks the boundary line between Storey and Lyon Counties. Through this narrow gorge paraded thousands of the most adventurous souls of the mining West as they made their way to the gold and silver mines of the Comstock Lode.]]> 2023-09-24 23:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2718286382 26staisch https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2718287492 South Pass, a 20 mile wide, gently sloping gap in the Rocky Mountains, was perhaps the most important landform along the emigrant trails. It opened the West to settlement by providing a route over the Continental Divide that wagons could negotiate.]]> 2023-09-24 23:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/26staisch/abkeq3okkb838gsw/wish/2718287492