Over the Rim : the Parley P. Pratt exploring expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-50 / William B. Smart and Donna T. Smart, editors.
Material type: TextCopyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585164339
- 0874213541
- 9780585164335
- 9780874213546
- Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857
- Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857
- 1800-1899
- Mormons -- Utah -- History -- 19th century
- Discoveries in geography
- History & Archaeology
- HISTORY -- State & Local -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
- Mormons
- Regions & Countries - Americas
- United States Local History
- Utah -- Discovery and exploration
- Utah
- 979.2/01 21
- F826 .O84 1999eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- The journals -- Great Salt Lake to San Pete -- San Pete to the Little Salt Lake -- Over the rim to Dixie -- Exploration of Little Salt Lake and Cedar Valleys and beyond -- Reunion and celebration -- The long, cold trip home -- The official report -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Related papers -- Biographies of expedition members -- Robert Campbell's Ute alphabet -- Robert Campbell's emigrant guides -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Over the Rim is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah. Led by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, the party traveled from Salt Lake City south across the rim of the Great Basin to the Virgin River near future St. George. They brought back to Mormon leaders their first detailed portrait of the country to the south that the church planned to settle. By 1849, the new Mormon settlement at Great Salt Lake City was taking on an air of permanence as companies of Latter-day Saints continued to arrive. Brigham Young and other leaders nee.
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