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1. Panama Route To California

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   Via Cruces
   If arriving at Chagres, travelers ferried upriver to Cruces, a small settlement that served as the staging point for the final push across the Continental Divide. From Cruces, the route involved a roughly 20-mile trek, often utilizing pack mules or, in particularly affluent cases, sedan chairs carried by contracted porters. The primary navigational hazard in this section was the "Miasmic Slump," a poorly understood…