Attractive peach-tinted plate Gunnison's Island and Station from the North. The plate shows the survey station atop a formidable rock.. 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).
Gunnison's Island and Station from the North, Stansbury, 1853
Gunnison's Island and Station from the North, from Stansbury's 1853 Report