Show £ &' V CHAPTER IX BONNEVILLE SENDS UALKER TO EXPLORE THE NORTHWEST SHORE Captain B L E Bonneville has left his name indelibly stamped on the Great Salt Lake region the prehistoric ancestor of the present lake still bears his name That Bonneville has been given greater honor than he deserves from any actual contributions he made toward the exploration and knowledge ofthe lake is generally conceded by historians However that he did nothing constructive in the field of lake ex- ploration must be emphatically denied Let us examine his actual accomplishments in connection with the Great Salt Lake Bonneville was a Yest Point graduate and after many years service applied for frontier' duty Stationed at Et Gibson (on the Arkansas river) he was in almost constant contact with frontiersmen Indians trappers and western soon captivated by the western spirit the desire to lead a trapping expedition into the adventurers and felt He was region beyond the Rocky Mountains By promising to obtain certain geographical information and make maps of interest to the government and to note numbers of various Indian tribes their disposition toward the United States formation concerning natural resources ar a leave dated August 3 1831 two-ye- etc supply in- he was granted This was of course |