http://www.kancoll.org/books/marcy/mai06txt.htm 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] Springville was settled in 1850 by eight pioneer families who crossed the plains to Salt Lake Valley from the East and were directed by Brigham Young to settle 50 miles further south.