Part 13 - Duck Lake Station to LaClede Station is now live.
Part 14 - LaClede Station to Almond Station is now live.
Part 15 - Almond Station to Rock Springs is now live.
Part 16 - Rock Springs Station to Fort Bridger is now live.

The Bitter Creek division:

“Bitter Creek is too miserable a stream to have a name. Tho’ I don’t know [how] Emigrants would get across this desert country without it.”

The 80 miles or so from Duck Lake Station until the Green River Station - and Green River itself - offered little comfort and much danger to passers-through and the Overland employees who lived here. The Overland Central Route ended somewhat past the Rock Springs Station where it re-joined the original Northern Road and the California/Oregon Trails. The country was still desolate; none of the towns of today existed before the railroad came through in 1868. Even "Little America" did not yet exist. :)

These four sections take the story through and past the Bitter Creek country and on to Fort Bridger - the trading post and "meeting of the trails" established by the mountain man Jim Bridger in 1844.

Coming up next: Fort Bridger to Weber Station ... and the end of this tale.

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