CHAPTER XIV 



THE FRONTIER ONCE MORE 



BEFORE history began an ancient lake, 

 called by geologists Lake Bonneville, 

 covered a great portion of what are now 

 the fertile fields of northern Utah and southern 

 Idaho. Lake Bonneville was a fresh water lake 

 two-thirds as large as Lake Superior, a thou- 

 sand feet deep, with an outlet to the north 

 toward Snake River. Growing aridity of cli- 

 mate dried Lake Bonneville away until all that 

 is left of it now is Great Salt Lake, the "Dead 

 Sea of America," some eighty miles in length 

 and forty miles in width, with an extreme 

 depth of fifty feet, and lying 4,210 feet above 

 sea level. 



Through Baron La Hontan the world first 

 heard of Great Salt Lake, in the year 1689. In 

 1820 Mr. Miller, of John Jacob Astor's fur 

 company, visited its shores. It was seen and 



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