History and stories of Nebraska . n, Morrilland Scotts Bluff. The third celebratedtrail across Nebraskawas from the MissouriRiver to Denver andwas called the DenverTrail. It had manybranches between theMissouri River and FortKearney. Near thispoint they united andfollowed up the south bank of the Platte to Denver. Theroute from Omaha to Denver was up the north bank of thePlatte to Shinn s ferry in Butler County where it crossed tothe south side and continued up the river to Fort was also a road from Nebraska City up the southbank of the Platte, which was joined by the Omaha road
History and stories of Nebraska . n, Morrilland Scotts Bluff. The third celebratedtrail across Nebraskawas from the MissouriRiver to Denver andwas called the DenverTrail. It had manybranches between theMissouri River and FortKearney. Near thispoint they united andfollowed up the south bank of the Platte to Denver. Theroute from Omaha to Denver was up the north bank of thePlatte to Shinn s ferry in Butler County where it crossed tothe south side and continued up the river to Fort was also a road from Nebraska City up the southbank of the Platte, which was joined by the Omaha road after it crossed the was called the FortKearney and NebraskaCity Road. A new. andmore direct road was laidout in 1862 from Ne-braska City westthrough the counties ofOtoe, Lancaster, Seward,York, Hall and was the shortestand best road to was called the Nebraska City Cut-off. It became verypopular and during the years from 1862 to 1869 was trav-eled by thousands of immigrants and freighters. Over the. Oregon Trail Monument at Kearney 90 STORIES OF NEBRASKA Denver Trail went the Pikes Peak immigrants and thesupphes and machinery for opening the mines in Colorado. After a few years the mail and stage coach and pony ex-press followed the immigrant and freight wagons along theOverland Trails. In 1850 the first monthly mail coachesbegan running from the Missouri River to Salt Lake andCalifornia. The hard winter of 1856-57 blocked this routefor several months. The California mail coach was thenplaced on a southern route through Arizona but with thebreaking out of the Civil War it was brought north again andin 1861 the first daily overland mail began running from theMissouri River to California. This mail at first started fromSt. Joseph. After a few months it ran from Atchison, join-ing the Oregon Trail a few miles south of the Nebraska stateline and following it as far as the crossing of the South Plattenear Julesburg, where it diverged making a new road
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