File:Pass Sierra Nevada CA.jpg

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English: First Transcontinental Railroad's pass in the Sierra Nevada of California.
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Source Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44 by John C. Fremont. Senate Doc. 174. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1845
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