The Arduous Road: Salt Lake to Los Angeles, The Most Difficult Wagon Road in American History

WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY     (Washington County, Utah)

BOOK

"THE ARDUOUS ROAD: SALT LAKE TO LOS ANGELES,

  THE MOST DIFFICULT ROAD IN AMERICAN HISTORY"

by Edward Leo Lyman and Larry Lee Reese

Paperback, 108 Pages, 8.5" x 11" x 3/16"
Published by the Lyman Historical Research and Publishing Company
2001
ISBN: 0-9709525-0-3


AVAILABILITY

This book is available from Dr. Leo Lyman, (435)879-2345 or lionman011@gmail.com.


COVER

Front cover of The Arduous Road: Salt Lake to Los Angeles
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        Back cover of The Arduous Road: Salt Lake to Los Angeles
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION
PREFACE

CHAPTER 1 - THOSE WHO USED THE SOUTHERN ROUTE
Anglo-American Packers
Relations with Native Americans
Forty-Niner Companies
Main Early Diarists
First Freighters
Pioneer Companies of 1850
The Mormon Colonizing Expeditions to Southern California
San Bernardino
Converging Trails to a (temporary) Mormon Zion
Community Diversity
Charles C. Rich
Mormon Corridor?
Sarah Pratt of an 1852 Company
Varied Purposes in 1853 and 1854
Mail Service
David Savage
Mormon Missionaries to the Indians
The Tragedy of Not Promoting the Southern Route
Sylvester Mowry's Army Contingent
Freight Route Considerations
Road Improvement
1855 Freighting Expeditions
Unfulfilled Express Company Plans
Freighting Boom After 1857

CHAPTER 2 - CONTEMPORARY IMPRESSIONS THROUGH UTAH
Nephi to Sevier Bridge
Fillmore to Cove Creek (Fort)
Cove Creek to Parowan (Little Salt Lake Valley)
Parowan Valley to Iron Springs
Iron Springs to Mountain Meadows
Mountain Meadows to (later) Arizona Border

CHAPTER 3 - ACROSS THE TIP OF NORTHWESTERN ARIZONA, SOUTHERN NEVADA AND INTO
                        SOUTHERN CALIFORIA - THE BEGINNINGS OF THE OF THE REAL ARDUOUS ROAD        
Arizona Border to Virgin Hill
Virgin Hill to the Muddy River
Freight Road of 1869
Davidson Tragedy
Muddy River to Las Vegas
Las Vegas to Stump Springs
Stump Springs to Resting Springs

CHAPTER 4 - ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FROM MOJAVE DESERT TO PACIFIC COAST
Resting Springs to Mouth of Amargosa Canyon
Mouth of Amargosa Canyon to Silurian [Dry] Lake
Kingson Springs Cutoff
Silurian [Dry] Lake to Bitter Springs
Bitter Springs to the Mojave River
East Cajon Pass Trail, 1849
West Cajon Pass Trail, 1850-1869
Lower Cajon Pass to Chino Rancho
Wagon Trail through the Los Angeles Region
Later Uses of the Route

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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