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Show 3 " The mountains and valleys are thronged with game - bears, panthers, antelopes, stags, hares. Trout and pike are in the rivers. In the pzier beds of the salt marshes are duoks and geeee; on the islands of the lakes are pelicans, herons, mews and cranes. There is a great deficiency of wood. In the plain, the cotton- wood is the oole representative of the vegetable world. In the mountains are small forests of firs, cedars, dwarf maples and oaks. The more open districts are exposed to the fires lighted by the Indians to kill and roast the grasshoppers which they collect in summer and which they devour in winter. ... The atmosphere in the valley is extremely healthy ... In summer the mirage is frequently seen in the desert." Abundant game and fish, combined with the long, cold winters, tended to make the Indian inhabitants nomadic, and dependent on hunting for subsistence. 1 Littell^ Living Age, Vol. X, 2" Series, 1255, " The Mormons in Utah," pp. 530- 531. |
