Bonneville Salt Flats
Bonneville Salt Flats

Author: xxLandspeed Louise Ann Noeth

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 1467105953

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"...amateur motorsports devotees have used the blistering hot, flat land as a speed laboratory for more than a century. ...On the salt, people find the limits of their courage, learn what daring greatly is all about, and realize why a Bonneville Salt Flats speed record is an internationally respected pedigree. People who race on the salt flats become a family bound together by speed... and this is their story."--Back cover.

Bonneville
Bonneville

Author: Louise Ann Noeth

Publisher: Motorbooks International

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780760313725

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Describes the history and tradition of the Bonneville salt flats and the speed records that have made history.

Captain Benjamin Bonneville's Wyoming Expedition: The Lost 1833 Report
Captain Benjamin Bonneville's Wyoming Expedition: The Lost 1833 Report

Author: Jett B. Conner

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1467148644

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In 1832, Benjamin Bonneville led the first wagon train across the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail. Financed by a rival of the Hudson's Bay Company, Bonneville and more than one hundred traders and trappers traveled from Fort Osage on the Missouri River, up to the Platte River and across present-day Wyoming. Washington Irving first gave the U.S. Army officer a brand by chronicling the three-year explorations in the 1837 book The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. Historians have long suspected that the captain, under the guise of commercial fur trading, was preparing for an eventual invasion of Mexico's California territory. Bonneville's 1833 report concerning his first year in the Wind River Range and beyond remained lost for almost a century before resurfacing in the 1920s. Author Jett B. Conner examines the intriguing details revealed in that historic document.