> From: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>
> Date: July 4, 2006 8:13:56 AM MDT
> To: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: Patriotic Quote
>
> I agree with Thomas Payne but from what I have read, Captain
> Bonneville never set foot on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Apparently an
> offshoot of the Lake Bonneville named for him.
>
> A suggestion has been made, somewhat tongue in cheek, that really the
> salt flats should be named for Jedediah Smith who was the first anglo
> explorer to cross the flats. His party supposedly made it across
> after losing all their animals but one mule. The Smith Salt Flats
> doesn't have the same ring as the Bonneville Salt Flats so I'm
> comfortable with the name, history notwithstanding..
>
> Wes
>
> On Jul 2, 2006, at 11:31 PM, John Burk wrote:
>
>> "The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth." Thomas Paine
>> (1776) "
>>
>> Appropriate for us Wes . Thomas Paine brought Captain Benjamine
>> Bonneville who
>> discovered the salt flats to america .
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