History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

34 ADVENT OF TRAPPERS AND TRAVELLERS.
they passed on to Great Salt Lake, made camp near
where Great Salt Lake City is situated, crossed to
Antelope Island, and examined the southern portion
of the lake. After this they passed by way of Pilot
Peak into Nevada. 18
Of the six companies comprising the California immigration
of 1845, numbering in all about one hundred
and fifty, five touched either Utah or Nevada,
the other being from Oregon. But even these it is
not necessary to follow in this connection, Utah along
the emigrant road being by this time well known to
travellers and others. With some it was a question
while on the way whether they should go to Oregon
or California. Tustin, who came from Illinois in
1845, with his wife and child and an ox team, says
in his manuscript Recollections: " My intention all
the way across the plains was to go on to Oregon
but when I reached the summit of the Rocky Mountains
where the trail divides, I threw my lash across
the near ox and struck off on the road to Califor-
nia."
For the Oregon and California emigrations of 1846,
except when they exercised some influence on Utah,
or Utah affairs, I would refer the reader to the volumes
of this series treating on those states. An
account of the exploration for a route from southern
Oregon, over the Cascade Mountains, and by way of
Klamath and Goose lakes to the Humboldt Piver,
and thence on to the region of the Great Salt Lake
by Scott and the Applegates in 1846, is given in
both the History of Oregon, and the History of Nevada,
to which volumes of this series the reader is
referred. 19
18 Fremont's Expl Ex., 151-60. Warner in Pac. R. Sep., xi. 49-50.
19 The word Utah originated with the people inhabiting that region.
Early in the 17th century, when New Mexico was first much talked of by the
Spaniards, the principal nations of frequent mention as inhabiting the several
sides of the locality about that time occupied were the Navajos, the Yutas,
the Apaches, and the Comanehes. Of the Utah nation, which belongs to the
Shoshone family, there were many tribes. See Native Races, i. 422, 463-8,
;