Report of Explorations Across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah for a Direct Wagon-Route From Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The destination of Escalante, his journal Shows, was Monterey, on the Pacific coast; but being forced, doubtless by the desert immediately west of Lake Utah, to take the so-called southern or Los Angeles route, which Bonneville's party in 1834 and Fremont in 1844 followed, and finding that, while making a great deal of south ing, he had made but little progress toward Monterey, his provisions giving out, and he fearing the approach of winter, with some difficulty he prevailed upon his party to abandon the idea of reaching Monterey, and to return to Santa Fé by the way of the villages of the Moquis and of Zuni. (see the map of his route, Plate I, Appendix R.)
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Excerpt from Report of Explorations Across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah for a Direct Wagon-Route From Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859
The destination of Escalante, his journal Shows, was Monterey, on the Pacific coast; but being forced, doubtless by the desert immediately west of Lake Utah, to take the so-called southern or Los Angeles route, which Bonneville's party in 1834 and Fremont in 1844 followed, and finding that, while making a great deal of south ing, he had made but little progress toward Monterey, his provisions giving out, and he fearing the approach of winter, with some difficulty he prevailed upon his party to abandon the idea of reaching Monterey, and to return to Santa Fé by the way of the villages of the Moquis and of Zuni. (see the map of his route, Plate I, Appendix R.)
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The countly known since the date of the explorations of Fremont, in 1843 and 1844, and by his appellation, as the Great Basin, has been, since the days of Fathers Sylvester Velez Escalante, and Francisco Atanacio Dominguez, in 1776, one of great interest.a This interest has grown out of the circumstance of its reported inaccessi bility from extended deserts, its occupancy by Indians of an exceedingly low type, and the laudable curiosity, which prevails in the minds of men, to know the physical characteristics of a country which has so long remained a term incognita.
This Great Basin has a triangular shape, nearly that of a right - angled triangle, the mountains to the north of the Htunboldt River and of Great Salt Lake constituting the northern limit or border, and forming one leg of the triangle; the Sierra Nevada, or western limit, the other equal leg; and the Wahsatch range at the eastern, and (in continuation) the short mormtain ranges and plateau country to the north of and not far distant from the Santa Fe and Los Angeles caravan or Spanish trail route to the southeast, the hypothenuse. These limits are embraced approximately within the 111th and l20th degrees of west longitude from Greenwich, and the 34th and 43d of north latitude, or within a limit of nine degrees of longitude and nine of latitude.
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