Before it was the Old Government Road, the route across the Mojave Desert from the Colorado River toward the coast was a Mojave trading trail, strung between the few reliable springs.
Warren's 1857 map covers California only at a small scale. Where do you know of good published sources on the Mojave trail and the springs it depended on?
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