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After four and a half miles of fighting boulders and brush along a streambed, the Donner Party gave up here and on August 22, 1846, climbed a steep hill to the southwest. A survivor wrote, "We doubled teams, almost every yoke in the train (of 23 wagons) being required to pull up each wagon." Mormon pioneers a year later built a road through to the mouth of the canyon with four hours labor.
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Emigration Canyon, Utah · United States
