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The [[Steamboats of the Colorado River#Colorado River Gold Rush|Colorado River Gold Rush]], which started in the spring of 1862, prompted [[William D. Bradshaw]], a frontiersman, to seek a quicker route from Los Angeles to the [[Colorado River]]. Later that year he hired a guide, and with the help of the Cahuilla and [[Maricopa people|Maricopa Indians]], mapped a route from [[San Bernardino, California]], through the San Gorgonio Pass and Coachella Valley, past the northern shore of the [[Salton Sink]], through the passes between the [[Chuckwalla Mountains|Chuckwalla]] and [[Chocolate Mountains]], and up to the Colorado River across from La Paz in the [[New Mexico Territory]], (now the state of [[Arizona]]). Much of the route is thought to have followed the original southwestern trading path used by the Cahuilla.
Shortly after Bradshaw defined the trail from San Bernardino to La Paz, various stagecoach and freight companies began using the route. The stage and freight lines brought miners, supplies, and mail between San Bernardino and La Paz, and the route became known as the [[Bradshaw Trail]] or
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