The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-24
LITERATURE.
A NEW VOLUME.

There could hardly be a subject to strike |
a heartier response from the early settlers
of Utah and even Of their descendants than
that of the "Old Overland Journey" That
was an experience that those who partici-
pated therein will recall with even greater
interest as the years pass by. Time but
adds to its Importance in the history Of our
territory, and the new volume which Mr..
Alfred Lambourne intends to bring out in
the near future will describe and illustrate
that journey from the standpoint of an eye
witness. He has prepared eighteen plates
OF the more interesting scenes and objects
to be seen on the route ndlprepared suit
able letter-piece descriptions to accompany
them. For this work we bespeak success.
The young men of our community have
heard little of late about the trip across the
plains. They are beginning to forget,
somewhat, what their fathers went through
in the earlier days. A flight on the railway
across the region between the Missouri
river and the Great Salt Lake valley gives
no adequate conception of what 1T was to
traverse the same number of miles by the
slow and wearisome OK train. Instead CT
hours, as now, then 1t was weeks, some
Tunes months, before the trip was accom-
pl1shed; and dangers as well as iabors, lay
in the way. Toll. fatigue, sometimes
death, were the portion OF the pioneer.
And continued labor looked him in the
face even when the journey was success
fully ended.
/ The plates, as we said, are eighteen in
number and of varied character. Com
mencing with scene on the banks of the
Missouri, they terminate with the first
glimpse of the Great Salt Lake valley.
Below is the list in full: ,1-''Nebraska
Landscape with Prairie Fire. 2-'Sun-
set on the Platte River, with the O'Fallen's
Bluffs" 3-"The Prairies;" 4-"Court
House Rock" 5-"Chimney Rock" g.
"Scotts Bluffs" 7-"Left by the Road
side;' S-"Ford of the Sweetwater;" O.
THE Night Hero;" 10-"The DEVILS
Gate" 11-"Among the Black Hills" u
Laramie Peak, from the Black Hills;p IL
1.-THE Buffalo Herd - Independence
Rock" 15-''Abandoned Camp Materially -
16-"Ford of the Green River" IL
moonlight in Echo Canon" 1S-"F'irst
Glimpse of the Valley"
Strange as it may seem, this trip across
the plains has never before been treated as
an illustrated volume, for the title devoted
to that account in the old work OF f.
Piercey cannot be so considered We cor-
graduate MIR. Lambourne, both as artist
and author, in having so successfully
WOIhSQ up Ills luSd 10 mah6 d bulUdUl6 pre-
sentationof this page of history. If car
ried out as he intends, 1t will not only re-
bound to his own credit, but will also be 6
work that will be read for many years tC
come, and one that will give true con-
ception of the labors in peopling this, ther
distant valley.
If we should particularize any favorite
sketches among the list, we would name the
first scene, ga Nebraska Landscape" witt
prairie fire, No. 8, which shows the I'M
broken prairie under the effect of sunset
the scenes among the Black Hills and the
Ford Of the Sweetwater River" which
could also be well designated, "WestwarC
the Star of Empire Takes its Way" Tit
Devils Gate'' is a very effective sketch
as also the "Night Guard" whilst the
three closing scenes, "Ford of the Greer
River" echo Canon by Moonlight,
and the 'First Glimpse of the Valley" arr
most excellent. The moonlight is gloomy
and grand, the fual picture very sunny
In the letter press, MIR. Lambourne ha
been anxious to report truly of all sides o
the trip as his memory brings it back T.
him. How successful he has been the pub
. lie will judge. For our part, it seems tina
> the narrative is told in a simple, effectiv
way that will leave an impress on tn
reader of the joys, trials and some
times tragedies of a trip across the plain
> and mountains before the coming of tn
Pacific railway.