A large permanent entry monument representative of an "open-book" marks the entrance to the Mojave River Valley Museum, located at 270 Virginia Way (just off Barstow Rd.) in Barstow, California. The monument represents that four Native American groups with ancestral ties in the greater Barstow area: Ute, Mojave, Chemehuevi & Paiute Indians.
Mojave River Valley Museum Monument
on the MONUMENT, MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY MUSEUMTHE STORY
of the MOJAVE RIVERBED TRAILYou are now traveling the Old Mojave Trail, a natural riverbed highway. First used by Ute, Mojave, Chemehuevi & Paiute Indians on the move.1776 - Padre Garces; Missionary, Explorer, Martyr
Thereafter used continually by Mormons, Immigrants, Fortune Seekers, Firefighters, Military Expeditions and Sight-Seeing Tourists
1826 - Jedediah Smith of Salt Lake City, Hunter, Trapper
1829 - William Wolfskill of New Mexico; First of the Annual Caravan Traders Bound for the Coast
1844 - Capt. John C. Fremont; Pathfinder & Mapmaker
1848 - Mormon Battalion disbanded in Los Angeles & bound for Utah
1849 - First Wagons of the Gold Seekers
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Hate to say it, but this does nothing to prove ancestral ties to Barstow. All it says is that these tribes traveled through the area. That is not enough to really prove ancestral ties, at least in my opinion. But it is still interesting that Big Lagoon and Los Coyotes are not on there.
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