Lansford Warren Hastings (1819–1870) was an American explorer and Confederate soldier. He is best remembered as the developer of Hastings Cutoff, a claimed shortcut to California across what is now the state of Utah, a factor in the Donner Party disaster of 1846. He was a Major in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Lansford Warren Hastings (1819–1870) was an American explorer and Confederate soldier. He is best remembered as the developer of Hastings Cutoff, a claimed...
The Hastings Cutoff was an alternative route for westward emigrants to travel to California, as proposed by LansfordHastings in The Emigrant's Guide...
From there, pioneers had a choice of routes to their destinations. LansfordHastings, an early migrant from Ohio to the West, went to California in 1842...
came to Fort Bridger and were assured by Bridger and Vasquez that LansfordHastings' proposed shortcut ahead was "a fine, level road, with plenty of water...
erected by LansfordHastings, a lawyer and the author of The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California; Hastings' book promoted the Hastings Cutoff, which...
Pioneered by LansfordHastings in 1846, the Hastings Cutoff left the California Trail at Fort Bridger in Wyoming. In 1846 the party, guided by Hastings, passed...
followed (and much improved) the rough trail originally recommended by LansfordHastings to the Donner Party in 1846 through the Wasatch Mountains into Utah...
LansfordHastings and his "Hastings Cutoff," Tamsen Donner was wary of the gamble of trusting Hastings on his word. No one had actually met Hastings,...
followed (and much improved) the rough trail originally recommended by LansfordHastings to the Donner Party in 1846 through the Wasatch Mountains into Utah...
Bridger’s Pass, which he discovered, was also named for him. In 1845, LansfordHastings published a guide entitled The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California...
Halleck Representing the District of Sacramento Elisha Oscar Crosby LansfordHastings Morton Matthew McCarver John McDougall William E. Shannon Winfield...
west) – At this, one of the last river crossings on the Mormon Trail, LansfordHastings and his company turned north, while the Reed–Donner Company turned...
California with LansfordHastings by way of a new route, which will soon be known as Hastings Cutoff. Clyman urges the emigrants to avoid Hastings Cutoff and...
negotiations or in armed conflict. American Consul Thomas O. Larkin and LansfordHastings communicated about the approach of thousands of American Mormons overland...
trying to attract settlers to the Oregon or California territories”. LansfordHastings said that the area “offers inducements to no civilized people, sufficient...
dwelling and settled on his grant in 1847. He became the second (after LansfordHastings) permanent settler of what was to become Shasta County. With the cession...
independent country. Those favoring an independent nation were led by LansfordHastings, then employed by Dr. McLoughlin, while George Abernethy led those...
Plumptre (1910); Guthrie (1992), p. 46; Halteman Finger (2007), p. 39; Lansford (2007), pp. 24–25; The London Quarterly and Holborn Review, Volume 26 (1866)...
serfs [who] performed all the drudgery and labour." White American Lansford Warren Hastings wrote "the natives...in California...are in a state of absolute...
Israel Juarbe, Dermot Mulroney, Robert Clohessy, Mitchell Page, Carney Lansford, Bill Dear, Milton Davis Jr., Albert Garcia, Danny Walcoff, O.B. Babbs...
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