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WENDOVER AND ENVIRONS
Bonneville Salt Flats: regional site map. Click image to enlarge.
In the 100 miles that separate Salt Lake City and the Utah-Nevada border town of Wendover lies a vast salt plain left by the shrinking of Lake Bonneville (14,000 BC) to what we now call the Great Salt Lake. East of Wendover, on the Utah side, is the Bonneville Salt Flats race course.
Drawing: Martin Hogue.
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ABOUT THE ESSAY
Land, Speed and BonnevilleOn Places — coinciding with Speed Week at Bonneville — a gallery created by architect Martin Hogue documents decades of land speed racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats of western Utah.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Martin Hogue is the William Munsey Kennedy Jr. Fellow in Landscape Architecture at the State University of New York, Syracuse.More Bio >>
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