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The story of a trail ; being an authentic record of the breaking of the Mormon Trail between the inter-mountain empire and California's "land of sunshine," with the story of the founding and building along this historic pioneer highway of the Salt Lake Route
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The old Mormon Pioneer trail from Salt Lake City to San Bernardino
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