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Long ago, Mohave Indians
used a network of pathways to cross the Mojave Desert.
In 1826, American trapper Jedediah Smith used their paths
and became the first non-Indian to reach the California
coast overland from mid-America. The paths were worked
into a military wagon road in 1859. This 'Mojave Road'
remained a major link between Los Angeles and points east
until a railway crossed the desert in 1885.
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