Evans’s wagon route over the mountains wrecked other wagons attempting it.

Evidence

In several of the gulches over which the track hangs there are the remains of wagons which have come to grief in the attempt to emulate Evans’s feat, which without evidence, I should have supposed to be impossible. It is an awful road. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 129

Categorization

• SHARE: A very specific, ghoulish detail about wrecked wagons rotting in the gulches below the trail — best sent to someone who loves frontier-travel minutiae.
• CANDY: Twitter-ready image: broken wagons piled in the gulches beneath the road as proof the road is nearly impassable.
• XREF: connects to: Western emigrant wagon families spent months crossing with devastating losses — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 344

Broader Connections

• Western emigrant wagon families spent months crossing with devastating losses #qualifies (1.00) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 344