Great Salt Lake Trail, The

Book

St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Great Salt Lake Trail, The

Entry/Object ID

L1991.1.127

Description

The Great Salt Lake Trail, written by Colonel Henry Inman and Colonel William F. Cody, is a thick book with chapters about the various groups who headed west over this trail. "It will deal with the era of the trapper, the scout, the savage, and the passage of emigrants to the gold fields of California--when the only route was by the overland trail--and with the adventures which marked the long and weary march." The Mormons also used this trail, but their religion is not of prime concern in this book. Indian tribes are named as well as many of the Mountain Men and traders headed west. Great Salt Lake Trail was originally published in 1898. Cody and Inman worked together in Cody's Wild West Show and there is a photo of the two men at the front of the book. Book focus is the trail between the Missouri River and Salt Lake City before the building of the railroad. Deals with fur trappers, Indians, emigrants to California and Salt Lake, freighters and the Pony Express. Cody was Pony Express rider. Other riders: J.G. Kelley - p. 173; Pony Bob Haslam - p.175; Macaulas, Charles Cliff and James Moore - p. 179; Cody - p. 181; Whipsay & Little Cayuse - 198; Dead rider - p. 205 529/Hardbound/Illustrations/Photographs.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Transportation, Settlements, Cowboys, Railroads

Search Terms

Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Salt Lake City, Sioux, Blackfeet, Crow, Beckwourth, Jim, Sublette,William, Communication, Mormons, Railroad - U.S. Transcontinental, Sioux Indians, Pony Expresss, Mountain Meadow Massacre, Fur Trappers, Exploration - American West, Russell, Majors & Waddell, Fur Trading, Native American, Gold Rush, Mountain Men, Trails, Pony Express Trail, California Trail, Western Migration, Military, Indian Interaction, Freighting, Stagecoach

Book Details

Author

Inman, Henry, Colonel and Colonel William F. Cody

Place Published

City

Williamstown

State/Province

Massachusetts

Date Published

1978

Call No.

PonyExpress IN

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Cody, William F.

Person or Organization

Jim Beckwourth

Person or Organization

William Sublette

Person or Organization

Kit Carson

Person or Organization

Buffalo Bill Cody

Person or Organization

Bob Haslam

Person or Organization

Pony Boby Haslam

Person or Organization

J. G. Kelley

Person or Organization

Macaulas

Person or Organization

Charles Cliff

Person or Organization

James Moore

Person or Organization

Whipsay

Person or Organization

Little Cayuse