Show 134 you to think of Utah?" Young "How came replied: read an account of General Fremont’s travels — how he found a large salt lake in the interior of our continent in the middle of a great fertile plain Ye read the account of his rowing to an island Yell from Fremont’s reports we determined to get our wagons together form a great caravan and travel through the country to Salt Lake 1000 miles from any civilized settlement Although it would he an over simplification to state that Yell the Mormons we had chose their site just because of the Fremont reports these reports did doubtless influence the Mormon leaders in their choice of the Great Salt Lake valley nr state that and Yallace Stegner Both Allen Nevins Fremont’s reports were very influential in Brigham Young’s choice of the Great Salt Lake valley as a refuge for the Mormons 29 Fremont Memoirs of My Life 415 30 Allen Nevins Fremont I 157 31 Yallace Stegner Mormon Country 33 |