Show 23 throughout the vest almost anywhere As shown on Since it wasn’t subsequent maps real it could be placed the Buenaventura was often depicted flowing into what is now Utah Lake and from Utah Some maps showed it as Lake westward into the Pacific draining the Great Salt Lake Escalante had mentioned it others firmly believed in its existence William Henry Ashley’s brigade (1824) after crossing the divide "descended a river believed to be the Buenaventura about one hundred and fifty miles to Great Salt river must have been the Bear ’Then Ashley himself came to the Great Salt Lake he reached that body of water by way of the Weber river Said he in his journal: "The mighty Buenaventura which according to tradition entered the Pacific in the vicinity of San Francisco has now Q John Work exdwindled to the rather insignificant Weber” ploring southward from the Columbia toward California clearly stated that the Buenaventura was the Sacramento "As such it was well known to the hunters and trappers of the Hudson's This Lake" Bay Company"® 7 H C Dale The Ashley-Smi- th and the Explorations 1822-18- Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific Dale is quoting from Niles Register December 8 Ibid 9 John Work tion" xviii 29 9 165 1826 153 Fur Brigade to the Bonaventura "Introduc- |