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