![]() ![]() ![]() In 1851, emigrants had to first pass through a quarantine station set up just outside the outskirts of the city at the mouth of Emigration Canyon, before entering the luscious valley. estimates that in the mid-nineteenth century, the average length of an emigrant’s stay while passing through the famed city was about six and a half days. In contrast to these short visits, some forty-niners spent the winter before pushing on to the gold fields. This was especially true of the argonauts, from whom we have the largest number of accounts. Some migrants stayed only a day or two, just long enough to obtain provisions or make needed repairs. 2 These two decades, when the Great Basin began to “blossom as the rose,” saw a unique period of overland emigrant travel, providing more time for observation than a hurried visit by train would allow. 1 Between 18, thousands of emigrants passed through this desert oasis, recording their descriptions of this unique Mormon utopia and its isolated inhabitants. Clair of Springfield, Illinois as he passed through Salt Lake City on his way to the California gold fields. Surely this city is bound to shine,” so wrote forty-niner H. ![]()
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