The Great Salt Lake Trail

First published in 1898 and reissued by Cedar Fort, The Great Salt Lake Trail is a sweeping frontier history of the overland route to the Great Salt Lake. Drawing on the recollections of Colonel W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") and Colonel Henry Inman, it recounts fur-trapping expeditions, the Mormon pioneer trek, the Pony Express and Overland Stage, harrowing Indian battles and folklore, and the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad—a vivid, anecdote-filled portrait of the vanished Old West.

• Co-authored by the legendary Buffalo Bill Cody, with his own first-person plains adventures
• A sweeping panorama of the vanished Old West—trappers, Pony Express, Indian wars, and the railroad in one volume
• Firsthand accounts of the Mormon exodus, the handcart tragedies, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
• A rediscovered 1898 classic of frontier history brought back into print

“Over this historical highway the Mormons made their lonely Hegira to the valley of that vast inland sea.”

Perfect for a reader of Western Americana, Buffalo Bill and Pony Express history, or 19th-century Utah and overland trail history who enjoys period primary-source narratives.