Attractive peach-tinted plate View Looking West from Promontory Point, Great Salt Lake. Panoramic view of mountain landscape with leke in the distance. 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).
View Looking West from Promontory Point, Stansbury 1853
View Looking West from Promontory Point, Great Salt Lake., from Stansbury's 1853 Report