Attractive tinted plate East side of Stanbury's Island. Panoramic view of a camp scene in a rocky landscape. From Stansbury's 1853 Exploration and Survey of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Howard Stansbury, a Captain and topographical engineer, was assigned in to survey the region of the Great Salt Lake in search of a possible transcontinental railway route and of a better route between Fort Bridger (Wyoming) and Salt Lake City (Utah).
East side of Stanbury's Island, Stansbury, 1853
East side of Stanbury's Island, from Stansbury's 1853 Report