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Show 11 of the Bannocks ia the pursuit of one of their bands in 162^ by a pp. rty under James Bridger for the purpose of retaking some horses they had stolen. It was the adventurous fur- traders of the west who gave their names to Sweetwater River, Independence Rock, Jaoksons Hole, and to the tributaries of Green River and Great Salt Lake. They discovered this lake and also South Pass. They wexe the first to travel from Great Salt Lake southwesterly to Southern California, the first 1 to cross the Sierras and the deserts of Utah and Nevada. Of Captain Bonneville * he French trader and explorer in the United States Army, whose activities weee largely in Utah, the historian Chittenden says, in contradiction to Bancroft, that " if there is one characteristic of the expedition more prominent than another it was the humane treatment which Captain Bonnevili* always aocorded 2 the natives. Speaking of the effeot of the American fur traders upnn the Indians in general, Chittender says further: _ Chittenden, H. M., The History of the American Fur Trader, vol. I, ^- 33• 2 Ibid., ( Prefaoe, vol. 1, p. X) |
