Rose–Baley Party
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The Rose–Baley Party was the first European American emigrant wagon train to traverse the 35th parallel route known as Beale's Wagon Road, established by Edward Fitzgerald Beale, from Zuni Pueblo, New
E.F. Beale
A "prairie schooner" covered wagon, 1909
A classic image of the American cowboy, as portrayed by C.M. Russell
El Morro in 1873
Gillum Baley
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Gillum Baley was an American pioneer and judge. With Leonard Rose he led the ill-fated Rose–Baley Party, the first emigrant wagon train to attempt the journey from New Mexico to California via Beale's
Rose–Baley Party
…company left Iowa in early April, and in mid-May they were joined by the Baley company, led by a forty-four-year-old veteran of the Black Hawk War, Gillum Baley. Their combined outfits numbered twenty wagons, forty men, fifty to sixty women and children, and nearly five hundred head of cattle. John Udell, a…
Baley circa 1885
19th-century depiction of wagon trains entering Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ruins of Fort Miller, California in 1936. Gillum Baley and his family lived in the fort's disused buildings from 1860 to 1861