Peteetneet Creek

Peteetneet Creek is a stream named after the Ute Chief Peteetneet who lived near it, in the vicinity of what is now Payson, Utah. Its source is located at 39°56′52″N 111°40′37″W / 39.94778°N 111.67694°W / 39.94778; -111.67694, the confluence of Shram Creek and Frank Young Canyon Creek.[1]

History

Peteneet Creek was a good camping spot on the Mormon Road, a Mormon pioneer and 49er wagon route between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles.[2] The Latter-day Saints first settled in Payson in 1850.[3] After improvements were made to the Mormon Road wagon route in 1855, it had become what was known as the Los Angeles - Salt Lake Road. This was a wagon freight route used each year from late fall through winter into early spring, between Southern California and Utah, isolated by the winter snows in the Sierra Nevada Mountains from San Francisco and by the Rocky Mountains from the rest of the United States to the east. This route remained the only winter season route to the outside world, until the arrival of the railroad in Utah in the late 1860s.[4]:2, 172-178

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Peteneet Creek
  2. ↑ Randolph Barnes Marcy, The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions, PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1859; LIST OF ITINERARIES; ITINERARY VI.--From Great Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
  3. ↑ Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941) p. 644
  4. ↑ Edward Leo Lyman, Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels, University of Nevada Press, 2008.

Coordinates: 40°02′05″N 111°43′43″W / 40.03472°N 111.72861°W / 40.03472; -111.72861

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