Between 60 and 75 wagons did so and traveled with Hastings on his cutoff. He stayed in the vicinity of the Sweetwater River while an eastbound traveler carried his open letter inviting emigrants on the California Trail to meet him at Fort Bridger. In April, Hastings set out with a few companions to meet the emigration of 1847. Frémont, who had just explored the Great Salt Lake Desert and whose letter describing a new route to California would be widely published in Eastern newspapers. Significantly, his stay at Sutter's Fort coincided with a visit by John C. Hastings led a small party overland late in 1845 and spent the winter in California. The west end of the cutoff is marked as Nevada Historical Marker 3. The cutoff left the Oregon Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming, passed through the Wasatch Range, across the Great Salt Lake Desert, an 80-mile nearly water-less drive, looped around the Ruby Mountains, and rejoined the California Trail about seven miles west of modern Elko (also Emigrant Pass). The most direct route, for the California emigrants, would be to leave the Oregon route, about two hundred miles east from Fort Hall thence bearing West Southwest, to the Salt Lake and thence continuing down to the bay of St. The ill-fated Donner Party infamously took the route in 1846.Ī sentence in Hastings' guidebook briefly describes the cutoff: The Hastings Cutoff was an alternative route for westward emigrants to travel to California, as proposed by Lansford Hastings in The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California.
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