CONTENTS. 9 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Survey of Salt Lake — Mouth of the Jordan — Antelope Island — Formation of 

 salt — Fremont's Island — Ancient water levels — Egg Island — Carrington's 

 Island — Hat Island — Volcanic character — Bear River Bay — Mud Island — 

 Larvae of insects — Curious excrescences — Landing to encamp — A night on 

 the mud flats — Alum Cliff — Stansbury's Island — Black Rock — Flat Rock 

 Point — Indian springs — Shoshonee Indians — Silk plant — Spring Bay — 

 Larvae beds — Bitumen — Density of the lake water — Gunnison's Island — 

 Water fowl — Eggs — Northern bay of the lake — Western shores — Fresh 

 water — Its scarcity — Dolphin Island — Field of salt — Perilous adventure — 

 Strong's Knob — Sand flats — Utah digger — A night voyage — Bay on Antelope 

 Island — The dome — Completion of the survey of the lake — Triangulation — 

 Salt water bathing — ^Termination of the exploration of the valley — Sum- 

 mary — Hospitality of the Mormons Pagt 151 



CHAPTER IX. 



Departure from Great Salt Lake City — Golden Pass of the Wahsatch moun- 

 tains — Snows in the canons — Camass Prairie — Heads of the Timpanogas — 

 Proposed change in the location of the present route through the Wahsatch 

 range — Storm in the mountains — Singular dyke — Red Fork of the Weber 

 — Mormon emigrants — Echo Creek — Cache Cave — Yellow Creek — The 

 Needles — Bear River — Coal, and mineral tar — Eastern rim of the Great 

 Basin — Proposed route for Pacific railroad, from Fort Bridger to the valley 

 of Salt Lake — Fort Bridger — Military post — Exploration of a new pass 

 through the Rocky Mountains — Valley of the Colorado of the West — *< The 

 church" — Pilot butte — Charge of Indian warriors — Green River — Bitter 

 Creek valley — Beds of bituminous coal — The '* Haystack" — " Red Gate" — 

 Muddy Creek — Trappers' tale — Beaver dams — Dividing ridge between the 

 waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific — North Fork of the Platte — In- 

 dian forts — Cotton-wood parks — Medicine-bow Butte — Buffalo -butchering, 

 "mountain fashion" — ** Running buffalo" — Laramie river — Alarm of 

 Indians — Ogallalah Sioux — Language of signs — Sioux village — Buffalo 

 feast — Laws of hunting — Black Hills — Heads of Crow Creek — Cheyenne 

 Indians — Cheyenne Pass — Lodge Pole Creek — Successful result of the re- 

 connoissance — Rail road to Salt Lake — Different routes to the valley of the 

 Humboldt — Mormon route to San Diego — Route from Salt Lake City to the 

 Humboldt — Chugwater valley — Fort Laramie — Fort Leavenworth 217 



APPENDIX A. 



Tables of Measured Distances from the Missouri River at Fort Leavenworth, 



to Salt Lake City 270 



From Salt Lake City to the Missouri, upon the Return Route 278 



From Salt Lake City to Fort Hall in Oregon 293 



From Salt Lake City to the San Pete Settlement 294 



