Country Never Trod: William Lewis Manly's 1849 Voyage down Utah's Green River

William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard.

Born in Vermont, William Lewis Manly was drawn out west by the lure of gold. Previous scholarship claims that the Yankee frontiersman floated only 290 miles down the Green River to the Uinta Basin, but author Michael D. Kane’s research of primary source materials led him to the conclusion that Manly actually traveled 415 miles, all the way to what is now Green River, Utah. This would m...