History of Nevada; . n J. B. Bartleson in 1841—.T. C. KreniontsExpedition in 1S44—The Emi^ranta of 1844—FremontsExpedition in 1S45—Edwin Bryant and other Emigrants in1S4G—Tlie Donner Party Tragedy. H. Ashley, of St. Louis, Missouri, a celebratedmountaineer, discovered the Great Salt Lake ofUtah in 1824, and a smaller lake near by thatreceived his name, where he erected a fort, andestablished his headijnarters for the remaining yearsof his adventurous career as a Rocky Mountaintrapper. Mr. Ashley had a partner named JedediahS. Smith, a native of New York, whose m<nintainlife was a chapt
History of Nevada; . n J. B. Bartleson in 1841—.T. C. KreniontsExpedition in 1S44—The Emi^ranta of 1844—FremontsExpedition in 1S45—Edwin Bryant and other Emigrants in1S4G—Tlie Donner Party Tragedy. H. Ashley, of St. Louis, Missouri, a celebratedmountaineer, discovered the Great Salt Lake ofUtah in 1824, and a smaller lake near by thatreceived his name, where he erected a fort, andestablished his headijnarters for the remaining yearsof his adventurous career as a Rocky Mountaintrapper. Mr. Ashley had a partner named JedediahS. Smith, a native of New York, whose m<nintainlife was a chapter of thrilling adventure, until it wasended in 1831, by the arrow of an ambushed Indianassassin on the Cimarron River. jEnEDi. s. smiths expedition in 1825-26. The first white man to see any portion of what isnow Nevada was a comj)any of some forty trappersunder the charge, or leadership, of this noted mountaineer Smith, who crossed the country to Californiafrom his rendezvous on the Yellowstone River in. THE TRAPPERS AND EARLY EJUGRATION. 21 1825. His route was through a portion of what isnow westurn \V3oiniiiii. down the Iliiinboldl, thatwas named Marys Kivur b}- iiiin, atlor his Indian wife;thence to the Walker River coiintrj-, and out ihrouijiiwhat lias been since known as Walkeis Pass intoTulare Valley, California, where he arrived in Jul}-with two companions. In October he recrossed thecountry, leavinij his party trappini; in the Sacra-mento Vaiky. The only infonniition in our posses-sion in regard to the direction taken by Stnilh on hisreturn tri|) across the ciiuntry is contained in thefollowinic extract from a Idler to us M])on that sub-ject from Captain Lyon, of San Hueuaven-tura, California:— * * * His, Smiths, notes mention the discover}-of Jlono Lake (or dead sea) on his return trip in 182.).The upper end of Mono Gulch was very rich andshallow; and when the ijuich was first jiro-ipectedby Cord (the di-coverei) in 1S.)1), i!;ol<i could be see
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