INTRODUCTION TO REPORT AND .lOl'KNAL. 



i Spanish costume, jingling spurs, and horse 

 informed me that he belonged to one of the £ 

 or three days 1 ride, and that he had obtained 

 3 with his relations in the Sierra. Saving » 

 d to visit us. He appeared familiarly acqnai 

 lite and clear information in regard to the de 

 entered the pass with a strong disposition fa 

 sa toward the Great Salt Lake, in the view 



interior of the Great Basin, while pursuit.- 



by its sterility all the attempts of the Indiana to j 

 present to relinquish the plan, and, agreeably to hi 



to continue our intended route along its eastern ba> 



Tims, like Father Escalante attd Walker, IV. 



»]„ (J.-eat !>>asin. on aeeottttt of its reported arid 



is to be found in the pamphlet entitled "Geographical 



illustration of his map of Oregon and California, by ,h 

 the Senate of the United States." ,l This memoir am 

 Coldnel Fremont entered the Great Basin byway of 

 down the valley of Utah Lake and its outlet, the Jc 

 Salt Lake ; turned this lake at its southern extremi 

 Peak to Whitton's Spring ; and thence his party y 

 Joseph Walker as guide, striking northwestwardly 1 

 following it down to its sink, and thence striking so 

 the east shore of Carson Lake, to Walkers River ; a 

 and Godey as guides, and a portion of the part] 

 directly across the Great Basin to near Walker's L 

 Here separating again, Mr. Kern, guided by Walk* 

 head of and along Owens River and Lake, and tliei 

 Nevada, where he left the basin and crossed the Siei 



(«) Fr6mont (pp.248 and 270 of his Report) calls this Walter* Pi 

 the time, informs me that Walker's true pass was about half a degree 



\x hieh Walker ihe discoverer of ir. led him in 1845. The pass through 



Valker^. which i: 



ssed into The valley of the San .T..a M mn by tli 

 _, .n 1833, and the next year out of it by the other, th- Tah-e-ehay-oah. k >ee note ,>. , Tin . h.ii- «• 

 cmont has arisen, doubtless, from the ci: portof 1843 and 1-14 speak o 



both the passes, but refers to but one, and that not usually denominated tt alker s Pass. 

 (0 Fremont's Report, p. 254.. 



.,0 Senate Miscellaneous Doe. No. 148, 30th Cong., 1st Sess. 



{ r) Fremont's map represents that he passed from the Duchesne's Fork i hence across th 



divide to the Timpanogos. This was a physical impossibility, for Morin's Fork, or White Clay Creek as it is no, 

 rilled is a tributary of the Weber, and instead of running into Duchesne's Fork, and being thus a b 

 Colorado, is, on the contrary, a branch tributary of the Great Salt Lake. In other words Duchesne's Fork and Monu 

 Fork are on opposite sides of the divide (the Uintah range), and, therefore, could not both be followed up trom the Cole 

 rado side. 



