Crossing the Great Divide. (South Pass, Wyoming)(includes related article on the historic South Pass City of Wyoming)

Sunset | May 1, 1998| | Copyright

I went to South Pass, Wyoming, to mark my son's 4-month birthday and my 43rd. People might think the middle of Wyoming a strange place to commemorate passing time, but I had my reasons. At 43, you look forward and backward, like a driver shifting his gaze from windshield to rearview mirror. At 4 months, you look straight ahead. From both my on's vantage point and mine, I thought South Pass would be enlightening.

We followed the Oregon Trail in from the east, past Independence Rock, where the wagon trains stopped to let emigrants carve their names in splintered granite. ...

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