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Emigration Canyon

Canyon to the east of Salt Lake City, Utah Territory.[1]

Situated in the Wasatch Mountains, it is named for the emigrant settlers that blazed the trail from the east across norther Utah Territory, first by the ill-fated Donner Party in 1846 and the Mormons in 1847.[1]

On July 5, 1876, Bart Maverick and Janet Kilmer tracked Quincy Bigelow along the Old Wagon Road[2] into Emigration Canyon.[3] At sundown, they couldn't follow Bigelow's tracks in the dark, so spent the night in an abandoned barn. The next morning, they continued following Bigelow's tracks into the ghost town[2] of Gifford in the hills of Emigrant Canyon.[3]

See: The Thirty-Ninth Star