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 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 its Lake"' river This must have been the Bear Yhen Ashley 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 Brand 3 co has nov 8 John Work exdwindled to the rather insignificant Weber" ploring southward from the Columbia toward California clearly himself came stated that the Buenaventura was the Sacramento "As such it was well known to the hunters and trappers of the Hudson’s Bay Company" 7 H C Q Dale The Ashley-Smi- th Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific 1822-18Dale is quoting from Miles Register December 9 1826 29 8 Ibid 9 John Work tion" xviii 165 153 Pur Brigade to the Bonaventura "Introduc- |