Category: Utah...
- more than 2/3 of Utah's population is Mormon; Brigham Young urged his followers to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847
- Four Corners, rock art, Escalante Wilderness, Canyons, arches, monoliths, Rainbow Bridge, Bryce Canyon, Bonneville Salt Flats, beer bread, sugar beets, wide streets
- after Francisco Coronado found the land north of the Grand Canyon impenetrable, Utah remained unknown for the next three centuries
- the canyon frogs and tiny Zion snails of Zion National Park
- world speed records set at Bonneville Salt Flats
- the Great Salt Lake has a higher saline content than the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- the Ute, for whom the state is named
- two-thirds of Utah's land is federally owned
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