Show 170 other party of emigrants attempted to reach California via this route A trail was later established connecting Salt Lake City with the regular Fort trail Ho Hall-Humbo- ldt kept considerably north of the Bartleson-Bidwe- ll track and made no attempt to follow the west lake This northern trail became very popular shore to Pilot Peak and was used extensively during the gold rush in 1849-5- 0 In April 1846 James Clyman at the head of a group of This however including three women and children left Sutter’s Fort destined to make the first west-ea- st trip across the center of the Salt Desert Among the group was Lansford W Hastings who had grandiose schemes for California and who hoped to be able to prove the feasibility of a route eastward bound emigrants the south end of Salt Lake for use by future emigrants to California Fremont had come west over the route the previous year so the party was not traveling over new and unexaround Well mounted on mules they reached Pilot Peak without serious difficulty where preparations were plored territory for the desert crossing Clyman ’s Journal entries for May 28 and thorough descriptions of this desert crossing made 29 1846 give and all the hardships endured® Following Fremont’s route they arrived in good time at the Jordan river After crossing that stream 219-2- 4 5 James Clyman James Clyman Ameri can Frontiersman |