Show 24 his companions in making their circuit of the Great Salt Lake in 1826 had definitely proved that no river flowed out of that lake and Joseph Yalker had just as definitely shown that the whole region of the lake is a great interior basin with interior drainage only out of which no river reached the Pacific through the Sierra Nevada James Clyman and l mountains Yet Fremont and Carson were still looking for that mythical stream as they made their way southward along the eastern slopes of the Sierras during the winter of 1843-4- 4 river often featured on early maps of the region was the Timpanogos Although this is often considered just another name for the Present Provo river it was certainly not just that to earlier map makers The Timpanogos river Another closely associated with the lake of the same name To Escalante the Timpanogos Lake was the present Utah Lake his was river by that name However during a half century after his expedition many misconceptions concerning the It Timpanogos found expression in the maps of the day gradually came to be believed that the Timpanogos river must have an outlet to the Pacific and since there were numerous rivers flowing down the west slopes of the Sierra Nevadas it seems that some of these were imagined to be those draining the great seas of the interior The name Timpanogos was naturally given to one of these mythical rivers And it was maps show no |