Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Shortest Route to California: Illustrated by a History of Explorations of the Great Basin of Utah, With Its Topographical and Geological Character and Some Account of the Indian Tribes
The country known since the date of the explora tions of Fremont in 1848 and '44, by his appellation of the Great Basin, has, since the days of Fathers Silvestre Velez Escalante and Francisco Atanacio Dominguez, in 1776, been of great interest. This interest has grown out of its inaccessibility on ao count of extended deserts; its occupancy by Indians of an exceedingly low type, who subsist chie?y on roots, grass-seed, rats, lizards, grasshoppers, etc.; and the laudable curiosity which prevails in the minds of men to know the physical characteristics of a country which until a very recent period has been a terra 13n cognita.
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