Show 77 Concerning Ashley’s advance to the lake Robert Greenhow says : 1 In 1824 Mr Ashley made another expedition up the and reached a great collection of Platte salt water called Utah Lake (probably the Lake Timpano -gos or Lake Tegayo of old Spanish maps) which lies among lofty mountains between the 40th and 42nd of latitude Near this lake on the south east parallels he found another and smaller one present Utah Lake to which he gave his name and there he built a fort or post in which he left about six hundred men trading cannon was drawn from Two years afterward a Missouri to this fort a distance of more than twelve hundred miles and in 1828 many wagons heavily laden performed the same journey This is the traditional view of many of the older histories of the Yifest However more thorough study leads one to believe that Ashley’s headquarters was not on Utah Lake im-boso- med six-pou- nd but on Great Salt Lake Dale suggests that Ogden was the logical site for such a post that Ashley’s post was probably built there during 1825-2- 6 2 There is much circumstantial In 1826 Jede-dievidence that upholds the Salt Lake location Smith left on his exploring expedition that took him to California from the Great Salt Lake according to his own statement It was at Great Salt Lake probably at the ah site of Ogden that the great rendezvous of 1825 was held boat expedition on the lake following Bridger’s discovery was dispatched from that rendezvous and no doubt The first 1 History of Oregon and California Dale Ashley-Smi- th Explorations 168 Robert Greenhov 2 H C 357 |