Howard Stansbury (February 8, 1806 – April 17, 1863) was a major in the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. One of his most notable achievements was leading a two-year expedition (1849–1851) to survey the Great Salt Lake and its surroundings.[1] The expedition report entitled Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including a reconnaissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains was published in 1852 providing the first serious scientific exploration of the flora and fauna of the Great Salt Lake Valley as well as a favorable impression of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who had settled there beginning in 1847.
^Talbot, Vivian Linford; Gowans, Fred R. (1994), "Exploration in Utah", Utah History Encyclopedia, University of Utah Press, ISBN 9780874804256, archived from the original on March 21, 2024, retrieved April 21, 2024
HowardStansbury (February 8, 1806 – April 17, 1863) was a major in the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. One of his most notable achievements...
though a dirt causeway connects it to the mainland. Stansbury Island was named after HowardStansbury, the leader of a government expedition that surveyed...
under the leadership of HowardStansbury (Stansbury discovered and named the Stansbury mountain range and Stansbury island). Stansbury also published a formal...
Cherokee from Indian Territory (Oklahoma) traveled to California. Captain HowardStansbury, U.S. Army Topographical Engineer, was exploring a route back from...
last letter has been restored since the plant was named in honor of HowardStansbury.[citation needed] Purshia stansburyana is a shrub generally growing...
The Stansbury Mountains are a 28-mile (45 km) long mountain range located in eastern Tooele County, Utah. It is named for U.S. Army Major Howard Stansbury...
crossing contributed to their becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. HowardStansbury explored the desert in 1849. In 1956, I-80 replaced the Wendover Cut-off...
the island. It was first dubbed Fremont Island in 1850, when Capt. HowardStansbury surveyed the Great Salt Lake. That name eventually stuck. In 1859,...
1849 Carrington was hired by HowardStansbury to make a survey of the Great Salt Lake. Carrington accompanied Stansbury to Washington, D.C., in 1850 to...
Construction of the tower on the reef began in 1848, supervised by Captain HowardStansbury (at the time, U.S. Army and Navy officers were assigned as lighthouse...
1845 and named the island for the herds of grazing pronghorn. Captain HowardStansbury used the island as a base. He mapped the lake and attempted to locate...
polygamy. For example, after surveying the Utah Territory, Captain HowardStansbury concluded that most polygamous marriages were successful and there...
Topographical engineers (or "topogs") including John C. Frémont, HowardStansbury, William H. Emory and Gouverneur K. Warren were instrumental in the...
occasionally returned to fish on Utah Lake into the 1920s. Captain HowardStansbury of the United States Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers was ordered...
the spring of 1849 Gunnison was assigned as second in command of the HowardStansbury expedition to explore and survey the valley of the Great Salt Lake...
Topographical Engineers Captain HowardStansbury's expedition was returning east. At Fort Bridger, Jim Bridger advised Stansbury of a shorter route than the...
2001). The specific epithet, stansburiana, is in honor of Captain HowardStansbury of the United States Corps of Topographical Engineers, who collected...
2001). The specific epithet, stansburiana, is in honor of Captain HowardStansbury of the United States Corps of Topographical Engineers, who collected...
activist Catherine Coffin, U.S. Army Corps Topographical Engineer Major HowardStansbury, Kansas abolitionist John Brown, abolitionist Susan B. Anthony, writers...
was appointed the first commander of the survey. He was assisted by HowardStansbury, James H. Simpson, Joseph E. Johnston, Thomas J. Cram and I. Carle...
to San Diego, California (1848), the specimens secured by Captain HowardStansbury on his expedition to the Great Salt Lake of Utah (1852), the plants...
the surrounding valley, from the top of this rock. In 1849, Captain HowardStansbury of the United States Topographical Engineers built a small adobe house...
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