Show 2 Various geological expeditions and surveys have tributed to the vast amount of knowledge now available ment con- concerning ancient Lake Bonneville predecessor of Great Salt Because this phase of the lake has bsen thoroughly Lake the present study concentrates on the strictly "historical” period of activity about the lake since the coming of the white man to its shores in 1824 Only those explora- treated tions and activities was a major (and parts of factor are considered them) of which the lake Since the Indians evident- ly did little or nothing to explore or develop the lake no special attention is given them Likewise the "Mormon question" to which hundreds of volumes have been devoted receives no special consideration in this study Only in so far as their activities were directly related to the lake and its development are the Mormons considered at all In spite of the importance of the Great Salt Lake in the development of the Vfest most early journals contain relatively little information about it Trappers and explorers were men of deeds not of writing Even the Mormons shores meticulous record keepers that they were (and are) had little to say about the lake in their journals and publications On the other hand John who settled on its Stansbury and other government explorers left voluminous accounts chiefly concerning the physical characteristics of it It has been a chief task of the Fremont Howard C |