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Dempsey - Hockaday Trail -- An experience in history Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
Annals of Wyoming 54:1:58-66
By Robert G. Rosenberg
MAP: Dempsey-Hockaday Trail by Elizabeth M. Rosenberg.
The Dempsey-Hockaday Trail was a "'short cut' on the Sublette Cut-off, which was the original Oregon Trail across what is now western Wyoming." The 16.7 mile trail crosses Commissary Ridge, the Ham's Fork River, the Ham's Fork Plateau, and Dempsey Basin before joining the Sublette Cut-off again on Dempsey Ridge. Blazed by John Hockaday, an experienced mountaineer and government surveyor, and Ropert D. Dempsey, a trapper and fur trader, the trail was used for emigrant travel from the mid 1850's through at least 1902.

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