Excerpt from Provo, the Garden City of Utah: Its Resources and Attractions Stling at the base of the Wasatch Range, where seamed front towers high and precipitously toward the sky, lies Provo, the Garden City of Utah. The pioneers of Utah entered the Great Salt Lake Val ley in the fall of 1847, and in the following spring a small party from this body started south on an exploring expedition. Im mediately on reaching the summit of the divide, between what are now Salt Lake and Utah Counties, they gazed southward, and beheld stretched out before them, calm and undisturbed, a beautiful sheet of water some thirty miles in length, hemmed in on all sides by towering peaks, with yet enough of plain to 'tempt the settler, and with many streams pouring out from rugged ravines, threading their silvery way through the un cultivated area until lost amid the sleeping waters of the lake. Roaming along the banks of these rivers in search of game, and about theshores of the lake, was a tribe of Indians who possessed the spot as their own. They were the Utes, though. The opinion of some is that they properly should be called Pah Utes, or Water Utes. The fact seems to be that not only this lake and Utah County, but even the territory, ultimately derived the name Utah from this tribe, and that Piute county is only Pah Ute corrupted, or improved, as we may choose to think. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.