Great Salt Lake - A Historical Look
Great Salt Lake is bleak yet beautiful, mysterious and alluring, an endangered "dead sea" vital to life. Explorer Jedediah Smith, surrounded by a vast wilderness, realized this felt to him like home. Conservationist John Muir found in the briny waters a sublime baptism and came out, in his words, salted and clean as a saint. Nineteenth-century Utahns built the first resorts, such as Saltair; bathed and floated in the water; and began extracting valuable salts and minerals from the ever-fluctuating lake. Ringed with wildlife refuges, it is a haven for migrating birds. With multiple state parks, Antelope Island among them, Great Salt Lake is today a magnet for sight-seeing, swimming, hiking, biking, horse riding, and sailing--just a few of the ways to experience what pioneer-era surveyor Howard Stansbury described as a "great and peculiar beauty."
About the author: Lynn Arave earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Weber State University. He has lived in Layton for more than 36 years and has conducted extensive research into the history of the city and Utah. Two of his Google blogs, Mystery of Utah History and Layton, Utah History, highlight that research. A majority of the historic photographs in this book are courtesy of the Heritage Museum of Layton.
128 Pages - paperback
Great Salt Lake is bleak yet beautiful, mysterious and alluring, an endangered "dead sea" vital to life. Explorer Jedediah Smith, surrounded by a vast wilderness, realized this felt to him like home. Conservationist John Muir found in the briny waters a sublime baptism and came out, in his words, salted and clean as a saint. Nineteenth-century Utahns built the first resorts, such as Saltair; bathed and floated in the water; and began extracting valuable salts and minerals from the ever-fluctuating lake. Ringed with wildlife refuges, it is a haven for migrating birds. With multiple state parks, Antelope Island among them, Great Salt Lake is today a magnet for sight-seeing, swimming, hiking, biking, horse riding, and sailing--just a few of the ways to experience what pioneer-era surveyor Howard Stansbury described as a "great and peculiar beauty."
About the author: Lynn Arave earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Weber State University. He has lived in Layton for more than 36 years and has conducted extensive research into the history of the city and Utah. Two of his Google blogs, Mystery of Utah History and Layton, Utah History, highlight that research. A majority of the historic photographs in this book are courtesy of the Heritage Museum of Layton.
128 Pages - paperback
Great Salt Lake is bleak yet beautiful, mysterious and alluring, an endangered "dead sea" vital to life. Explorer Jedediah Smith, surrounded by a vast wilderness, realized this felt to him like home. Conservationist John Muir found in the briny waters a sublime baptism and came out, in his words, salted and clean as a saint. Nineteenth-century Utahns built the first resorts, such as Saltair; bathed and floated in the water; and began extracting valuable salts and minerals from the ever-fluctuating lake. Ringed with wildlife refuges, it is a haven for migrating birds. With multiple state parks, Antelope Island among them, Great Salt Lake is today a magnet for sight-seeing, swimming, hiking, biking, horse riding, and sailing--just a few of the ways to experience what pioneer-era surveyor Howard Stansbury described as a "great and peculiar beauty."
About the author: Lynn Arave earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Weber State University. He has lived in Layton for more than 36 years and has conducted extensive research into the history of the city and Utah. Two of his Google blogs, Mystery of Utah History and Layton, Utah History, highlight that research. A majority of the historic photographs in this book are courtesy of the Heritage Museum of Layton.
128 Pages - paperback