Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . Little Zion Valley, Virgin River Character of the region of South-Western Utah, through which Fremont passedon his return in 1844. >/>^. ? * t The Great Temple Butte, Virgin River, Southern Utah Altitude 7500 feet above sea Escalantes Entrada 33 established in 1830 by the American, WilHam Wolfskill, wentover, about on latitude 39°; but if this was so they failed tostrike the proper route, and continued north, against theremonstrances
Frémont and '49 : the story of a remarkable career and its relation to the exploration and development of our western territory, especially of California . Little Zion Valley, Virgin River Character of the region of South-Western Utah, through which Fremont passedon his return in 1844. >/>^. ? * t The Great Temple Butte, Virgin River, Southern Utah Altitude 7500 feet above sea Escalantes Entrada 33 established in 1830 by the American, WilHam Wolfskill, wentover, about on latitude 39°; but if this was so they failed tostrike the proper route, and continued north, against theremonstrances of some Utes they met, to the next possiblecrossing, Wonsits Valley, where they put themselves on thewestern bank of what they called the Rio Buenaventurain about latitude 40° 15. Going down to the Rio de SanCosme (Uinta branch) a short distance above its mouth,they followed its valley westward to the crest of the Wasatchbarrier, and descended into the Great Basin at Utah Lake,which they called Nuestra de la Merced and which Escalantesays the natives called Timpanogo. They heard of Salt Lake but did not go there. Insteadthey turned south, travelled along the western flanks of theWasatch, crossing the Santa Isabel River (Sevier), till theycame to the neighbourhood of the pre
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