Utah, they stopped for a day at a town on the Great Salt Lake itself, where they marveled, perhaps, that such a broad stretch of water supported no fish. Their agents had warned the Indians that the people they would meet on their travels were “bad people.” By this they meant the Mormons who lived in Utah and Nevada, who were pariahs in the late nineteenth century, still tainted in outsiders’ eyes by their practice of polygamy (which the church would not outlaw until September 1890).
