---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Alfred Lambourne
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 10
published: 1914-08
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Alfred Lambourne, "Camp on the Upper Weber River," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 10 (August 1914): 899–900.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera17010unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera17010unse
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1914-08)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera17010unse
  publication_year: 1914
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1914, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# 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.