page_title: Tejon Pass
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tejon Pass / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Canada de las Uvas, or Tejon Pass in Sierra Nevada, California, 1690 miles west of Missouri River. Image Description The Canada de las Uvas, or 'Canyon of the Grapes' - named after the canyon's native grapevines (Vitus californica). Location: At canyon landform between the Tehachapi Mountains (left—southeast) and San Emigdio Mountains (right—northwest), in Southern California, circa 1868. (Not in the in Sierra Nevada range, per 1868 title. ) View: To southwest, from the southwestern San Joaquin Valley floor towards Tejon Pass (on present day Interstate 5), and Fort Tejon. Gardner Series This is plate 106 - in a series of views by Alexander Gardner made in 1867 and 1868 starting in St. Louis, Missouri through Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona to San Francisco, California. Series made for the Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern Division later renamed the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Gardner accompanied the survey party seeking the best southern route for the railroad going through Kansas along the old Santa Fe Trail south to Albuquerque, then west along the 35th parallel to the Tehachapi Pass before heading north to San Francisco. The series is significant as the earliest comprehensive U.S. western landscape survey. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, soldiers, Native Americans, other people, forts, vegetation, geological formations, rivers, plains, mountain ranges, and railroad construction. Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen; 15 x 20.3 cm. on 30.3 x 45.7 cm. mount
context_page_description: The Tejon Pass, previously known as Portezuelo de Cortes, Portezuela de Castac, and Fort Tejon Pass, is a mountain pass between the southwest end of the Tehachapi Mountains and northeastern San Emigdio Mountains, linking Southern California north to the Central Valley. It has been traversed by major roads such as the El Camino Viejo, the Stockton – Los Angeles Road, the Ridge Route, U.S. Route 99, and now Interstate 5.
caption: Tejon Pass near Grapevine, California, in 1868
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