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"The Early Days: Reminiscences of a Pioneer Settler of '46," The Daily Examiner (San Francisco), 8 March 1885, p. 1, cols. 1–4. Korns, J. Roderic [and Dale L. Morgan], eds. West from Fort Bridger: The Pioneering of the Immigrant Trails Across Utah, 1846–1850: Original Diaries and Journals. Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Quarterly XIX, 1951.
Salt Lake City also has the Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument, where Young, Eliza R. Snow, and other Mormon pioneers are buried and where a memorial exists dedicated to all who crossed the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. Additionally, the "Pioneer" (characterized as "Pioneer Pete") is Lehi High School's mascot. [21]
The Salt Lake Valley was founded first upon an agrarian system and later combined with non-agrarian techniques by way of manufacturing and the use of the railroad. [34] The early agrarian development began by appointing crews to "plow, plant, survey, build fences, saw timber, build a public shelter, and explore [ 35 ] ".
Heading south and following river valleys southwestward to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, Brigham Young led the first Mormons into present-day Utah during 1847. The Mormon Trail is 1,300 miles long and extends from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. The Mormon Trail was used for more than 20 years after the Mormons used it and has ...
Downtown Salt Lake City circa 1913 Salt Lake City suburb, 1909 Armed delivery of liquor & beer, 1917. The Great Depression hit Salt Lake City especially hard. At its peak, the unemployment rate reached 61,500 people, about 36%. The annual per capita income in 1932 was $276, half of what it was in 1929, $537 annually. Jobs were scarce.
The Great Salt Lake Desert (colloquially referred to as the West Desert) is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States, between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert , and noted for white evaporite Lake Bonneville salt deposits including the Bonneville Salt Flats .
On August 24, 1841, the party headed west and north around the Great Salt Lake, camping in the vicinity of the Hansel Mountains until September 9 while they scouted the route to Mary's River (known today as the Humboldt River). By September 12 wagons and possessions were beginning to be abandoned.
The State of Deseret (modern pronunciation / ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ DEZ-ə-RET, [1] contemporaneously / d ɛ s iː r ɛ t / dess-ee-ret, [dubious – discuss] as recorded in the Deseret alphabet spelling 𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻) [2] was a proposed state of the United States, promoted by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who had founded ...