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Pioneers of California will include those who emigrated to California prior to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 . Although California was admitted to the Union in 1850, travel between California and the rest of the continental U.S. remained time consuming and dangerous. Once the Transcontinental Railroad was completed, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens came west, mar...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Independence, Missouri. Official Website Independence is the county seat of Jackson County . It is known as the "Queen City of the Trails" because it was a point of departure for the California Trail, Oregon Trail , and Santa Fe Trail . Independence was also the hometown of President Harry Truman ; the Truman Presidential Library an...