Complex sentence: For many years Bridger was credited for the discovery of the inland sea known as the Great Salt Lake until recent evidence suggested that Canadian-American trapper Etienne Provost and his party visited the lacke earlier during the same winter.
Split into simpler sentences: For many years Bridger was credited for the discovery of the inland sea known as the Great Salt Lake. More recent evidence suggests that Canadian-American trapper Etienne Provost and his party visited the lake earlier in the same winter.