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USA:
Places to Go
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Amazon.com
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Amazon.com
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Yellowstone in winter means fire and ice.
Text and photos by Heike Schmidt
December 2006
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Go World Travel
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Miscellaneous sources
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006, 12:54:35 PM
They've been the ultimate great escape, but America's national parks have been loved a little too much.
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National Geographic Magazine
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The Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail is a partnership to develop and sustain a system of trails for recreation, transportation, health, and education between the mouth of the Potomac River and the Allegheny Highlands.
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National Park Service
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In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a law declaring that Yellowstone would forever be "dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people."
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National Park Service
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Amazon.com
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Most of the trail follows the Missouri & Columbia Rivers. Much has changed in 200 years but trail portions remain intact.
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National Park Service
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Led by Brigham Young, roughly 70,000 Mormons traveled along the Mormon Pioneer Trail from 1846 to 1869 in order to escape religious persecution.
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National Park Service
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There was money to be made in transporting New Mexico serapes and other woolen goods to Los Angeles, and in wrangling California-bred horses and mules back to Santa Fe.
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National Park Service
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As the harbinger of America's westward expansion, the Oregon Trail was the pathway to the Pacific for fur traders, gold seekers, missionaries and others.
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National Park Service
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The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (OVNHT) commemorates the campaign leading to the battle of Kings Mountain by following the Revolutionary War route of Patriot militia men from Virginia
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National Park Service
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The Pony Express National Historic Trail was used by young men on fast paced horses to carry the nation's mail across the country, from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, in the unprecedented time of only ten days.
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National Park Service
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Between 1821 and 1880, the Santa Fe Trail was primarily a commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1821 until 1846, it was an international commercial highway used by Mexican and American traders.
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National Park Service
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In 1838, the United States government forcibly removed more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory
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National Park Service
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Epicurious.com
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