Almost inaudible: A leaf falling: 20: Audible: Rustles of autumnal leaves: 30: Very quiet: Whispering: 40: Living room, quiet classroom: 50: Limited sound: Refrigerator working, car driving past: 55: Percolating coffee-maker: 60: Audible: Sound of human voice, machinery: 70: Irritating: Television set on loud, vacuum cleaner, several people on the telephone: 75: Constant sound
The Dominguez-Escalante expedition was the first on it, traveling from Utah Lake to present-day Scipio. Jedediah Smith traveled most of it in 1826 and 1827, and other trappers, including Ewing Young, Kit Carson, and Peter Skene Ogden, followed. John C. Fr?nt mapped the country up to Utah Lake in 1844, and in 1848 Miles Goodyear took a pack train over the entire Salt Lake-Los Angeles route.
King first saw the land that would become part of the enormous King Ranch in April 1852 as he traveled north from Brownsville to attend the Lone Star Fair in Corpus Christi, a four-day trip by horseback. After a grueling ride, King caught sight of the Santa Gertrudis Creek, 124 miles (200 km) from the Rio Grande.