I know it says that the Mormon Emigrant Trail is closed during winters but after looking at Google street view, I don't see a gate preventing vehicles from accessing Bonetti Rd.
For those who do not live in the area but know where to go shooting the road is closed. Police has Mormon emigrant trail rd blocked off. Gotta find another spot fellas..
Hello all! I am going to be traveling the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail this fall. I have never followed the trail before and wondered if anyone on here has done it before? (Or at least portions of it!) I am going to be traveling the whole thing from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City.
If you have any tips or must see stops please let me know! I’m leaving in mid-September so still have time to plan.
Hey there, anyone who has been up to Sly Park/Pollock Pines recently.....I know that Mormon Emigrant Trail is not open all the way to 88 but I was hoping to use it to get to North/South Road, which is pretty low elevation and closer to Pollock Pines. Anyone know if there is a gate and whether there is access for a short bit of the road, or do they have it closed off?
After listening to my BoM mother-in-law praise the pioneers for their journey “across America” I finally had to correct her; they walked across two mostly flat to-be states (Nebraska and Wyoming) for a total of 980 miles. Which sure, isn’t nothing. But come on, I could ride my bike from Omaha to Salt Lake over a long weekend. The Donner Party? Yeah they had a long journey to California and resorted to eating each other. The Oregon Trail? Same. I mean, Meriwether Lewis went coast-to-coast twice, a total of 5,600 miles (the Lewis and Clark journey, though officially starting in St. Louis, actually began in Washington DC with Lewis meeting with Jefferson, heading over the Cumberland Trail to Pittsburgh, down the Ohio River to St. Louis, then up the Missouri River, then overland to the Oregon coast, then all the way back to DC).
So yeah; they had to use handcarts and some people died at Winter Quarters because of poor planning, but in reality the Mormons had by far the shortest and easiest route of any western pioneers, even if you add the prior year’s journey from Nauvoo to Omaha.
I’m all for giving credit where credit is due, and again that journey isn’t nothing, but BoMs make it sound like they climbed Everest in their underwear. Give me a break.
The general consensus here is that NKLA is a scam (which I wholeheartedly agree).
I did find the whole "rolling a non-working truck" fiasco mentioned in the Hindenburg Research article to be a bit hilarious.
The scathing article: https://hindenburgresearch.com/nikola/
However, some madlad actually drove to those coordinates and conducted this experiment to confirm that it's true!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-_z2d9qmzs
Position: 1x NKLA 20P 10/16 because I feel this will be like Luckin Coffee and get halted by the SEC thus screwing me if I went all in.
I didn't, even in the few chapters on religion that were included in some history classes.
It's odd that we have a working, modern example of how a single person can change a religion and amass his following into a billion-dollar global cult, originating in America, and yet it's not talked about.
Preferably non-fiction and/or diary format that are decently read by a human narrator.
Also interested in most any other quality NON-fiction titles related to 1800’s expeditions to or life in the American west. I’ve already enjoyed Caspion and the White Buffalo [which was loosely based on a true life experience]
Thanks
