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Great Salt Lake : an anthology / edited by Gary Topping.

Van Pelt Library F832.G7 G74 2002
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Topping, Gary, 1941-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Great Salt Lake Region (Utah)--History--Sources.
Great Salt Lake Region (Utah).
Great Salt Lake Region (Utah)--Description and travel--Sources.
Physical Description:
276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Logan : Utah State University Press, [2002]
Contents:
A Celebrated Historian and the Lake 8
The Mountain Sea / Dale L. Morgan 12
II. Natives and Newcomers 23
Prehistoric Indians 24
The Human Prehistory of the Great Salt Lake Region / David B. Madsen 27
Mountain Men 43
The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah S. Smith: His Personal Account / Jedediah S. Smith 46
Journal of a Trapper or Nine Years Residence among the Rocky Mountains / Osborne Russell 52
III. Explorers and Emigrants 59
Exploring Fremont Island 60
A Report of the Exploring Expedition to Oregon and North California / John C. Fremont 64
Surveying the Lake 81
Reconnoissance around the Great Salt Lake / Howard W. Stansbury 84
The Infamous Hastings Cutoff 103
Overland Emigration, the California Trail, and the Hastings Cutoff / Gary Topping 105
IV. Settlers 121
Corinne: The Gentile Capital of Utah 122
The Burg on the Bear ... / Wallace Stegner 124
Grazing and Living on Antelope Island 129
Building a Home in the Wilderness / Marlin Stum 131
The Thoreau of Gunnison Island 147
Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead / Alfred Lambourne 150
V. Playing, Racing, and Boating 163
A Pleasure Palace on the Great Salt Lake 165
Saltair / Nancy D. McCormick, John S. McCormick 167
Speed on Salt 187
"These Bloomin' Salt Beds": Racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats / Jessie Embry, Ron Shook 189
Boats on the Lake 202
Sail and Steam: Great Salt Lake's Boats and Boatbuilders, 1847-1901 / Peter G. Van Alfen 204
VI. Fantasies, Tales, and Phenomena 229
Weird Weather, Odd Creatures, and a Vanishing Act 230
Artists and the Great Salt Lake 238
Coming Around: First a Joke, Then a Jewel for the Guys Who Built "Spiral Jetty" / Dan Egan 241
VII. The Great Salt Lake Today 247
A Threatened Refuge 248
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place / Terry Tempest Williams 250
Deciding the Future of the Lake 265
The Lake at a Crossroads / Jim Woolf, Heather May, Glen Warchol 267.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
087421436X
OCLC:
48858190

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