Very attractive ochre-tinted plate Great Salt Lake City from the North. Clean plate showing a cattle grazing with very young Salt Lake City, UT in the background, at the foot of the mountains. 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).