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maintained the records. He regarded it as routine to take readings on the stars late at night, sometimes standing waist-deep in snow. His maps were used by thousands of immigrants on their travels to Oregon and California. Fremont's report containing the description of the Great Basin was submitted to the Chief of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers in 1845 and ordered by Congress to be printed. The publication was very popular. Fremont's descriptions of the topography of the west were undoubtedly influential in the Saint's decision to settle in the Salt Lake Valley.' Fremont launched an expedition in October 1848, to establish the feasib'ity of a railroad to the Pacific, which terminated in disaster in the snows of the San Juans in Colorado. In 1853 Congress appropriated money for five Paciiic railroad surveys. Failing to land a spot at the head of one of these surveys, Fremont decided to go on another winter expedition at his own expense. He wanted to show that winter snow was not a deterrent to such a railroad route and, in the process, cover himselfwith glory. He recruited a party of twentytwo men. The expedition included the American-born, JewishPortuguese artist and daguerreotypist, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, whose narrative is the only source of detail about this adventure. Ten Delaware Indians were among the party. "A more noble set of Indians I never saw," wrote Carvalho, "the most of them six feet high, all mounted and armed." The expedition got underway on Sept. 22, 1853, from the St. Louis area. They traveled up the Arkansas River, worked their way over the Rockies and down the western slope into Utah. Before reaching the Green River, they diverged south and crossed the river near the mouth-of the San Rafael and wandered through unexplored country to Circle Valley on the Sevier River, and ultimately reached Parowan in the southwest comer of the present state of Utah. Carvalho chronicles vividly the sufferings of the little party as they doggedly pushed though the wintry wilderness, sometimes encountering raging snowstorms with temperatures as low as thirty degrees below zero. On one occasion the lead mule slipped on a snowy mountain slope and tumbled, head over heals, several hundred feet to the bottom of a canyon, carrying fifty other mules with him.
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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