subletts

Updated: June 18, 2025

Now, our canteens, and every available vessel is to be filled with water, for use in crossing forty-five miles of lava bed, where there is neither water nor grass to be found and must be accomplished by traveling day and night. This was called "Subletts' Cutoff," leaving Salt Lake to the south of us, and brings us to the base of the mountains at the source of the Humboldt River.

L. H. (Lell Hawley) Woolley - California, 1849-1913; or, the rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years' residence in that state