Show 78 reached the lake via the Weber directly from the rendezvous or from the Ashley post Peter Skene Ogden repeatedly refers to the Ashley post as being located on the shores of Great 5 Lake Salt Ashley sold out to Smith Jackson and Sublette in 1826 This deal was probably consummated at the post on Dale states that Ashley's cannon Great Salt Lake (at Ogden) was probably taken to a rendezvous at Bear Lake rather than It is also quite evident as already indicated that Etienne Provot spent the winter of 1824-2- 5 on the Yeber near Great Salt Lake rather than on the Provo at Utah Lake Although rather conflicting in some of the information given Ashley's own report of his journey and location of his post would seem to indicate that it was on the Great Salt Lake rather than the Utah Dated December 1 1825 the report states that the lake was reported to be about eighty to Utah Lake' miles long by fifty broad It was represented as "a beautiful sheet of water deep transparent and a little brackish though in this latter quality the accounts differ some in- - sist that it is not brackish" 5 Certainly this describes a lake much larger than Utah Lake could ever have been thought to be surely the Great "Peter Skene Ogden's Journals" Oregon Historical Quarterly XI 1910 365 368 369 4 Dale Ashley-Smi- th Explorations 168 5 Ibid 154 3 |