NoeHill Travels in California
Historic Sites and Points of Interest in Modoc County
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It is easy to picture a wagon being mashed to atoms while attempting this descent.
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Applegate Trail Marker 32
Descent to Goose Lake
US 395
Descent to Goose Lake
US 395
The marker reads:
Applegate Trail - Descent to Goose Lake"Traveled ... to Goose Lake. The descent ... is sidling and dangers. While we were nooning here 2 wagons of other trains were upset and mashed to atoms" - Simon Doyle, Sep 19, 1849
Reading this marker, I was surprised to learn that hardy pioneers "nooned." I thought nooning was a modern indulgence limited to privileged women in Beverly Hills and the Upper East Side of Manhattan.