MEXICO

Willie Handcart RouteMartin Handcart RouteBoth Companies

Route of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies

Salt Lake CityRocky Ridge

Rock CreekMartin’s Cove

Independence Rock

Devil’s Gate

Scotts BluffChimney Rock

Fort Kearny Des Moines

MISSOURI

ILLINOIS

Iowa City

Rock Island

ChicagoToledo Cleveland

Dunkirk

Buffalo

Albany

IOWA

INDIANAOHIO

PENNSYLVANIA

MASS.

LAKE ER

IE

KANSASCOLORADO

UTAH

IDAHO

WYOMING

NEBRASKA

Fort Laramie

CANADA

MISSO URI RIVER

Willie Rescue Area

Fort Bridger South

PassRed Buttes (Bessemer Bend)

Greasewood Creek (Martin Rescue Site)

Last Crossing of the Platte (Modern Casper)

Florence (Winter

Quarters)

Council Bluffs

Boston (Martin)

New York City (Willie)

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