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Foster's Farm
Philip Foster, one of Oregon’s earliest pioneers, was a...
Barlow Summit
Ascending from the White River, the emigrants turned up Barlo...
Devil's Backbone
The Barlow Road ascended the south flank of Mt. Hood and desc...
East Gate Creek
West of the Tygh valley, the emigrants moved along a grassy r...
Laurel Hill
Laurel Hill was infamous in the guidebooks used by emigran...
White River Station
The White River drainage begins on Mount Hood's southern flan...
Summit Meadow
From the East Fork of the Salmon River, the road turns wes...
Tygh Valley
The road from the Dalles to Tygh Valley was very hilly. ...
East Fork of the Salmon River
Following the scouting expedition, the trail blazed into the ...
The Dalles
The Barlow Road was started because the wagon train that Samu...
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Foster's Farm
Philip Foster, one of Oregon’s earliest pioneers, was a leader in the establishment of Oregon. His farm and home in Eagle Creek played an important part in the history of the Barlow Road, which followed the south side of Mt. ...
Barlow Summit
Ascending from the White River, the emigrants turned up Barlow Creek to try to drive on as far as the base of Barlow Road. The forest was dense. Nowhere could the starving livestock find fodder. Repeatedly the emigrants tried to ...
Devil's Backbone
The Barlow Road ascended the south flank of Mt. Hood and descended the watersheds of the Zigzag and Sandy Rivers. Emigrants entered the valley below by following the long ridge to the east, called the Devil's Backbone, and then descended ...
East Gate Creek
West of the Tygh valley, the emigrants moved along a grassy ridge about 10 miles to Rock Creek, a tributary to the White River. From there they entered a small canyon at the east end of a half-mile long meadow, ...
Laurel Hill
Laurel Hill was infamous in the guidebooks used by emigrants heading west. Originally a series of at least three chutes, wagons were tied to trees by ropes, or held back in the steep chutes by dragging big logs. This was ...
White River Station
The White River drainage begins on Mount Hood's southern flanks, with its headwaters draining the White River Glacier and flowing through White River Canyon, the steep canyon between Mount Hood's Timberline Lodge and the Mount Hood Meadows ski areas. The ...
Summit Meadow
From the East Fork of the Salmon River, the road turns westerly and descends into swampy Summit Meadows and the watershed of Still Creek. From Summit Meadows, the road turns northerly again and passes through the center of Government Camp, ...
Tygh Valley
The road from the Dalles to Tygh Valley was very hilly. The valley was small, but fertile, and inhabited by the Tygh valley tribe.
On October 1, 1845, Barlow and three men scouted ahead of their company and ...
East Fork of the Salmon River
Following the scouting expedition, the trail blazed into the drainage of the East Fork of Salmon River, crossed that stream, and headed almost due north on an ash flow toward the base of Mount Hood.
The Dalles
The Barlow Road was started because the wagon train that Samuel Barlow and William Rector were in reached the Dalles too late in the fall to head down the Columbia and Willamette Rivers to Oregon City – the last of ...
