The Great Salt Lake Trail

Book Description

Topeka, Kansas Crane & Company 1914 Hardcover Later printing 529pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green decorative cloth with a tipi scene on the front board. Very good. A few pencil marks and a bookseller's label on front pastedown. Internally fine.  "Over this historical highway the Mormons made their lonely Hegira to the valley of that vast inland sea. On its shores they established a city, marvelous in its conception, and a monument to the ability of man to overcome almost insuperable obstacles - the product of a faith equal to that which inspired the crusader to battle to the death for the possession of the Holy Sepulchre. Over this route, also, were made those world-renowned expeditions by Fremont, Stansbury, Lander, and others of lesser fame, to the heart of the Rocky Mountains, and beyond to the blue shores of the Pacific Ocean." Includes a recounting of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Flake/Draper 4254. Howes I55

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