The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland ExpeditionsMarcy, Randolph B. (Randolph Barnes)
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The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
Marcy, Randolph B. (Randolph Barnes)
Overland journeys to the Pacific; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
19-1/2. Willow Creek.--Road at 6-1/2 miles passes a fine spring;
half a mile farther is another spring, where the road forks.
Take the right through a meadow; it is 3 or 4 miles shorter.
To the crossing is 3 miles; thence to the main road again 3
miles; to the village of Ephraim 5 miles. Good camp.
12. Lediniquint Creek.--At 6 miles pass Manti; thence to Salt
and Sulphur Springs is 3 miles. Good camp, with a fine
spring, wood, and grass.
15. Lediniquint Creek.--Road passes over a rugged country for 4
miles, to a creek; thence one mile it crosses another creek;
thence 2-1/2 miles up the creek, where there is a good camp.
The road improves, and for 8 or 9 miles camps can be found
by leaving the creek a short distance. The creek on which
the camp is muddy, with narrow channel.
18. Onapah Creek, or Salt Creek.--Road is good over a barren
country to the pointed red hills near the entrance to
Wasatch Pass, 7 miles. From the red hills cross Salt Creek 3
times in 4 miles; grass fair at 2d crossing; very good at 3d
crossing, and a good camp. Road rough for 3 miles after
leaving the creek. The road then enters a fine valley, with
plenty of blue and bunch grass. Road is level to within a
mile of the camp. Wood, water, and grass abundant at camp.
7-1/2. Head of Branch of Salt Creek.--Road runs over a ridge at
2 miles, thence one mile to a small branch. Grass abundant.
Road runs along the branch 3 miles; in places very rough,
with some sand; ascends the entire distance, and the camp is
very elevated. Good spring at camp.
5-3/4. Salt Creek.--Road passes over a ridge 2-1/2 miles to a
spring. Good camp at this spring. Colonel Loring worked the
road at this place. It crosses the creek 6 times within the
5-3/4 miles. Good camp, with abundance of wood, water, and
grass.
6-1/2. Silver Creek.--Road traverses a rolling section, is good,
passes several springs where there are good camps, and
crosses several trails which lead from California to New
Mexico.
17-1/2. Media Creek.--At two miles the road passes the dividing
ridge between the waters of Salt Lake and Green River;
thence two miles' descent to Shipley Creek, where is a good
camp. For about a mile the road is rough, but then descends
into an open plain where the road is good. The ground is
rough about the camp, and covered with sage and greasewood.
Two miles up the creek, near the canon, is some grass, but
it is not abundant here.
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