The Great Salt Lake
1986
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The Great Salt Lake, moody and mysterious and fabulous, is the subject of this book by Dale L. Morgan, eminent historian of the American West. Early in the nineteenth century, the lake was a scenic backdrop for mountain men and trappers in search of beaver pelts. For Brigham Young and his Mormon followers it was the place of destiny. But for Spanish, British, and American explorers and traders, it was a barrier sea "strangely removed from common experience," a starling "joke of nature." Approached as a history, geography, geology, or high adventure, "The Great Salt Lake" is fascinating reading. This Bison Book reprints the original 1947 edition published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company in the American Lake Series edited by Milo M. Quaife.
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