Alfred Lambourne

Alfred Lambourne (February 2, 1850 – June 6, 1926) is an English-born American performer and author. In the 1860s, he and his relatives moved to the American West subsequent to the Mormon pioneers. He is best remembered for his paintings, but he next wrote hasty fiction for Mormon periodicals, and additional works of musings and poetry.

Lambourne was born to William and Martha Wernham in Chieveley, Berkshire, England on the River Lambourn. The associates emigrated to the United States in the announce of he was a child. They first fixed in St. Louis, Missouri before disturbing to Utah Territory.

His artistic talents were encouraged by his parents from an beforehand age.

During the trip from St. Louis to Salt Lake City, Utah, he kept a sketchbook of scenery along the way. After arriving in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 16, Lambourne took work as a scenic performer for the Salt Lake Theatre.

In 1871, he accompanied then-President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and former Governor of the Utah Territory, Brigham Young, to Zion Canyon and made the first sketches of the area. In the similar decade, Lambourne traveled the American West as soon as photographer Charles Roscoe Savage, painting as Savage photographed, and explored the Wasatch range afterward H. L. A. Culmer, painting and naming features, and "painted a series of large canvasses representing his journey from the eastern coast of the United States to the Golden Gate" with Reuben Kirkham. He along with visited Yosemite, Colorado and Arizona.

Later in life, he focused more on writing, sometimes illustrating his work, eventually writing 14 books. In November, 1895, he began a year breathing in solitude upon Great Salt Lake's remote Gunnison Island, where he wrote Our Inland Sea. In March 1896, a group of guano sifters came to the island, and he included musings approximately them in the book. In in advance Winter of 1896, he left the island, along similar to the guano sifters.

Lambourne died June 6, 1926, in Salt Lake City.