| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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The Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels. By Edward Leo Lyman. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004. xvi, 288 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87417-501-1.)

A student of western transportation and Mormon community history, Edward Leo Lyman here presents a comprehensive chronicle of the Southern Trail that stretched from Deseret's capital at Salt Lake City to the Mormon outpost established in 1850 at San Bernardino. The Southern Trail served as a supply lifeline and information conduit that linked Utah's Mormon communities with their California counterparts. The Old Spanish Trail, pioneered by fathers Francisco Tomás Garcés, Silvestre Velez de Escalante, and Francisco Athanasio Dominguez in 1776, but never seriously developed under the Spanish regime, formed the basis for the Southern Trail that began to boom after the Mexican-American War. Mormon emigrants, American gold seekers and emigrants, mule skinners, bullwhackers, and a handful of "literary" travelers traversed the arid route from the late 1840s until about 1870, when railroads made most of the trail obsolete. The Southern Trail also saw considerable use by government military explorers and railroad route surveyors.

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