The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

CHAPTER I.

Why I went to Great Salt Lake City.--The various Routes.--The Line of Country traversed.--Diaries and Disquisitions.

A tour through the domains of Uncle Samuel without visiting the wide regions of the Far West would be, to use a novel simile, like seeing Hamlet with the part of Prince of Denmark, by desire, omitted. Moreover, I had long determined to add the last ne...