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English
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Our Inland Sea : The Story of a Homestead
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Deseret News
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"The Inland Sea is unique. In the Quarternary period, so our geologists tell us, a vast body of glacier-fed water covered the valleys of north-western Utah. Of the ancient Bonneville, as the vanished sea is desiganted, our subject is the better fragment. The first mention of the Inland Sea was made by BAron La Hontan in 1689. A Mr. Miller, of the Jacob Astor party, stood by its shore in 1820, and Mr. John Bedyear in 1825. Members of the Captain Boneville's expedition looked upon its waters from near the mouth of Ogden River, in 1833, and Bonneville gave a rather fanciful description of the sea, as viewed from the mountain side (Irving), althoughit is not certain if ever he was himself, an eye-wtiness of teh scene. However his name attaches to the great fossil body of water, whose shore lines may still be seen along the sides of the neighboring valleys." [Introduction]