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Emigrants participating in the great continental migrations of the mid-nineteenth century left enduring traces of their arduous passage along trails. On soft rock faces they inscribed their names and dates of passing. These etchings no only confirm their prsence on the frontier, they are evidence of the pioneers’ realization that they were participants in a dramatic process; the settlement of the trans-Mississippi west. After the first day out of Fort Laramie emigrants paused to mark their passing at Register Cliff, a sandstone bluff one and a half miles southeast of here.
Register Cliff can be observed more closely by traveling 2.5 miles southeast of downtown Guernsey.
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