Attractive peach-tinted plate Landing to Encamp, Shores of the Great Salt Lake, Bear River Bay showing a party pulling a boat ashore.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).
Landing to Encamp, Shores of the Great Salt Lake, Stansbury, 1853
Landing to Encamp, Shores of the Great Salt Lake, Bear River Bay, from Stansbury's 1853 Report