Attractive tinted plate First View of Great Salt Lake Valley, from a Mountain Pass. Shows one of the party's wagons crossing a mountain pass.. 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).
First View of Great Salt Lake Valley, from a Mountain Pass
First View of Great Salt Lake Valley, from a Mountain Pass, from Stansbury's 1853 Report