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Crossing the Great Salt Lake Desert
Photographer: By John J. Young from a sketch by H. V. Av. Beckh via NARA
Taken: 1859
Caption: Crossing the Great Salt Lake Desert
Additional Description: This sketch shows a wagon train moving across the desert. This sketch is Plate I in Lt. J.H. Simpson’s 1859 Journal of Explorations in Utah.
Submitted: May 16, 2020, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p522079
File Size: 3.945 Megabytes

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