South Pass was a Shoshone and Crow crossing of the Continental Divide long before the Oregon Trail made it famous. Warren's 1857 map labels the Cheyenne and Arapaho on the Laramie plains. Today the Wind River Reservation is home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho.
Which routes to and from South Pass do you think predate the emigrant road?
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