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cover of Exploring the Great Salt Lake: The Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50

Exploring the Great Salt Lake

The Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50

Brigham D. Madsen

University of Utah Press, 1989

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cover of Over The Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-50

Over The Rim

The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-50

edited by William B. Smart and Donna T. Smart

Utah State University Press, 1999

Over the Rim is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah. Led by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, the party traveled from Salt Lake City south across the rim of the Great Basin to the Virgin River near future St. George. They brought back to Mormon leaders their first detailed portrait of the country to the south that the church planned to settle.

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