Exploring the Great Salt Lake: The Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50
by Brigham D. Madsen
University of Utah Press, 1989
Cloth: 978-0-87480-325-9
Library of Congress Classification F832.G7E98 1989
Dewey Decimal Classification 979.24202
TOC
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- EDITORIAL METHOD
- 1.
- THE TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS
- 2.
- RECONNAISSANCE FROM FORT BRIDGER TO OGDEN AND GREAT SALT LAKE CITY
- 3.
- RECONNAISSANCE OF A ROAD TO FORT HALL, THE RESOURCES OF CACHE VALLEY, AND OF THE DESERTS WEST OF GREAT SALT LAKE
- 4.
- ESTABLISHING A BASELINE AND SURVEY OF THE JORDAN RIVER AND UTAH LAKE
- 5.
- A WINTER IN GREAT SALT LAKE CITY
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.
- SURVEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE
- 7.
- TRIANGULATION OF SALT LAKE VALLEY AND UTAH VALLEY
- 8.
- THE CASE OF DR. JAMES BLAKE
- 9.
- RETURN TRIP FROM SALT LAKE VALLEY TO FORT LEAVENWORTH AND WASHINGTON, D.C
- 10.
- THE WINTER OF 1851 IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
- 11.
- PUBLICATION OF THE REPORT
- 12.
- HOWARD STANSBURY, Expedition to the Great Salt Lake AND J. W. GUNNISON, The Mormons
- EPILOGUE
- APPENDIX A: PLANT SPECIMENS
- APPENDIX B: BIRD AND MAMMAL SPECIMENS
- APPENDIX C: AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE SPECIMENS
- APPENDIX D: CRUSTACEANS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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