![]() ![]() Hearst hired William Rishel of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.įifty years after the Donner-Reed party slogged their way across the flats, the area'sįirst use as raceway was conceived by publisher William Randolph Hearst Yield scientific information to the expeditions of Captain Howard Stansbury in 1849 and of Captain J.H. The tragedy of the Donner-Reed Party inhibited extensive use of the HastingsĬutoff as an overland migration trail. Were still visible in 1986 when archaeologists examined several sites The flats well into the 1930s, and the wheel tracks of their wagons Abandoned wagon parts from the party were present on ![]() A factor contributing to the Donner-Reed tragedy in the Sierra Nevadas was the delay the party experienced on the saltįlats when their wagons became mired in the mud found just below the The Cutoff, promoted by Lansford Hastings as a faster and easier route to California, proved to be just the opposite for the ill-fated Donner-Reed party of 1846. In the following year, Fremont's route across the flats would ![]() The salt flats in an effort to find a shorter overland route to the Fremont and his expedition crossed through the very heart of That Bonneville himself ever saw the flats.Ĭ. It is from Benjamin Bonneville that the salt flats and prehistoric lake derive their name, although it is unlikely Lake and crossed the northern perimeter of the flats while in the employ Six years later, Joseph Reddeford Walker, another trapper, mapped and explored the areas around the Great Salt White man to cross the salt flats in 1827 while returning from his firstĮxpedition to California. In 1827, trapper, trader, explorer, and frontiersman Jedediah Smith was perhaps the first The flatsĪre composed mainly of potash salts ranging in thickness from less than Massive lake which rivaled in size present Lake Michigan. The salt flats are actually the bed of that once The Bonneville Salt Flats of the western Great Salt Lake Desert were formed through the evaporation of the Pleistocene-era Lake Bonneville. ![]()
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