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At this site, the National Old Trails Highway, later Highway 66, crossed the Colorado River. It linked Mojave Indian lands visited by Father Garces in 1776. Near here, the American explorer Jedediah Smith and his band of Rocky Mountain men crossed the river in 1826 and opened the Pioneer Trail into Southern California.
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Needles, Arizona · United States
