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  • The California Trail passed through the present states: Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and California.
  • More than 200,000 of those people traveled the 5,550 mile long trip.
  • The California Trail was a wagon trail west from Missouri to California.
  • The main reason of the California Trail was for gold-seekers

    to travel to northern California, looking for fortunes.

  • The journey took about between 3 and 6 months long.
  • The pioneers left in between mid-April

    and early May.

  • The first group to go on the California Trail was the Bidwell-Bartleson

    in 1841.

  • Wagons traveled 10 to 20 miles per day depending on the weather.

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