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by Alan Millard

The Great Salt Lake Guidebook is filled with intriguing photos, maps, directions to interesting sites, vivid descriptions, scientific insights, and valuable teaching aids. You’ll love it! Tourists, locals and school groups will all enjoy this valuable book! It brings to light how fascinating and unusual the Great Salt Lake truly is. The history section begins with the lake’s predecessor, Lake Bonneville, sharing interesting information about this ice-age lake including its underwater volcanoes. Ancient Indian cultures, early exploration and pioneer settlements are the next chapters, followed by development of the area from pioneer times to the present. The Great Salt Lake Today chapter delves into the Bonneville Salt Flats, recreation and points of interest and tells about the salt-extraction industry. The abundant plant and animal life sustained by the lake are discussed in detail in several chapters including the Ecosystem Food Chain, the Brine Fly, and Small Microscopic Inhabitants. Weather and Other Physical Phenomena give us another glimpse of why the Great Salt Lake is such a unique place, from accounts of tornadoes to icebergs.

Chapters include:

Part One—HISTORY

1. Lake Bonneville—Predecessor to the Great Salt Lake
2. Ancient Indian Cultures
3. Early Exploration and Pioneer Settlements
4. Development of the Great Salt Lake and Surrounding Area
5. The Great Salt Lake Today

Part Two—THE GREAT SALT LAKE ECOSYSTEM

6. America’s Inland Sea
7. Plant and Animal Life Around the Lake

Part Three—NATURE’S HANDIWORK

8. Islands of the Great Salt Lake
9. Weather
10. Other Physical Phenomena

Part Four—MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS

• Educational Resources, Self-guided Tours and Field Trip Opportunities
• Study Questions on the Great Salt Lake
• Experiments and Displays Relating to the Great Salt Lake

6” x 9” paperback

116 pages