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Show FOOTNOTES PREFACE 1. Samuel G. Houghton, A Trace of Desert Waters: The Great Basin Story (Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1976), p. 194. 2. For previous attempts to establish the White Mountain geography, see Brigham H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Cnrist of Latter-day Saints, 6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1930), 4:362-63; Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom, An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), pp. 184-85; Carl Irving Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861, 5 vols. (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-1963), 4:122-36. Wheat's account is the best, being the only in depth study of the expedition's routes in print. Although his route is not considered accurate in a few places, it is basically correct. 328 |
