Camp on the Upper Weber River

Camp on the JJpper Weber River

Approach the Uintah Range from whatever quarter of the

compass we may, we cannot fail to be pleased with its bold and

commanding forms. That trinity of peaks, La Motte, the Bald

Mountain and Mount Agassiz (commonly called Reed's Peak),

form the center of a thousand magnificent views. Not long ago,

considering the age of mountains, this whole region was covered

with creeping glaciers. Their ice fronts rested upon causeways

of huge, round boulders which they themselves had brought down

and piled at the mouth of every canon. We yet see the evidences

of erosion on every hand ; deep canons plowed out of mountains

of solid rock; cliffs and mountain sides fluted, as it were, by the

sharp corners of stones held in the grip of the icy masses ; exten-

sive amphitheatres and glacial valleys in which rest now the cold,

crystal waters of innumerable lakes.

The nobler class of game is quite abundant in the Uintahs.

The bear and the deer frequent their solitudes ; the former, the

pine woods, and the latter, the high plateaus just on the timber-

line. One must be a practised huntsman, however, to take this

game unawares, though not infrequently one wakes, upon his bed

of strewn pine branches, and sees near to his camp, not a hundred

yards away, perhaps, fhe motionless form of a stag, standing upon

a jutting rock, and sharply outlined —a silhouette against the light

of dawn.

The Uintahs, the second in importance of the mountain

ranges of Utah, extend from its eastern border, close to the Green

river, to the Wasatch range, which they confront almost at right

angles, the course of the latter being nearly due north and south.

— A. L.