Alive, he was among the famous explorers of the West. Dead, he’s forgotten. His name appears here and there as a reminder — Bonneville Salt Flats and Bonneville Dam. But the Pontiac Bonneville, like him, is now a dusty memory.
Paris-born Benjamin Eulalie de Bonneville (1796-1878) charted and gathered data about the West during the 1830s, including some parts of what would become the Oregon Trail.
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