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	''[[United States\|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[United States Migration Internal\|Migration]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[US Migration Trails and Roads\|Trails and Roads]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Central_Overland_Trail\|Central Overland Trail]]'' <br><br>[[Image:UT-NV-CA Trails.png\|thumb\|right\|350px]]The [[Central_Overland_Trail\|Central Overland Trail]] (aka Central Overland Route, Central Route, Simpson's Route, Egan Trail, and Pony Express) was a shortcut of the [[California Trail]]. It was surveyed, improved for stagecoaches, and opened by the U.S. Army in 1859 from and Salt Lake City, Utah through central Nevada to Carson City, Nevada, a distance of about 650 miles (1046 km). This more direct route shaved off 280 miles (450 km), about two weeks travel time, from the length of the original California Trail.<ref name="COR">"Central Overland Route" in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Overland_Route (accessed 13 September 2011).</ref><br><br>		''[[United States Genealogy\|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[United States Migration Internal\|Migration]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[US Migration Trails and Roads\|Trails and Roads]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Central_Overland_Trail\|Central Overland Trail]]'' <br><br>[[Image:UT-NV-CA Trails.png\|thumb\|right\|350px]]The [[Central_Overland_Trail\|Central Overland Trail]] (aka Central Overland Route, Central Route, Simpson's Route, Egan Trail, and Pony Express) was a shortcut of the [[California Trail]]. It was surveyed, improved for stagecoaches, and opened by the U.S. Army in 1859 from and Salt Lake City, Utah through central Nevada to Carson City, Nevada, a distance of about 650 miles (1046 km). This more direct route shaved off 280 miles (450 km), about two weeks travel time, from the length of the original California Trail.<ref name="COR">"Central Overland Route" in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Overland_Route (accessed 13 September 2011).</ref><br><br>

	=== Historical Background ===		=== Historical Background ===