This is the Place Monument

The Central Group 5 ATOP THE MAIN PYLON, CENTER, BRIGHAM YOUNG, PIONEER LEADER, PROPHET, STATESMAN LEFT FAC ING MONUMENT HEBER C. KIMBALL, FRIEND AND ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT YOUNG RIGHT, WILFORD WOOD RUFF, IN WHOSE CARRIAGE PRESI DENT YOUNG WAS RIDING BECAUSE OF SERIOUS ILLNESS. Pioneer Explorers ON JULY 22, 1847, NINE HORSEMEN PRECEDED THE WAGONS INTO THE VALLEY TO LOCATE A PLACE TO PLANT CROPS. IN GROUP ABOVE ARE, FRONT TO REAR ORSON PRATT, ORRIN PORTER ROCKWELL, JOSEPH MATHEWS AND ERASTUS SNOW (See South Side of Pylon for Others) Pioneer Explorers NINE MEN ON HORSES PRECEDED THE WAGONS INTO THE VALLEY JULY 2 1847, TO LOCATE A PLACE TO PLANT CROPS IN THE GROUP ABOVE ARE JOHN BROWN, JESSE C. LITT GEORGE A SMITH, AN UNIDENTIFIED RIDER, AND JOHN PACK. See North of Pylon for Others) The Trappers GENERAL WILLIAMH ASHLEY, IMOUNTED JAMES BRIDGER, (LEFT FRONT JEDEDIAH STRONG SMITH, RIGHT FRONT OTHER FIGURES REPRESENT TYPICAL TRAPPERS WILLIAM SUBLETTE MILTON C SUBCETTE DAVID E JACKSON THOMAS PITZPATRICK ROBERT CAMPBELL HUGH GLASSLAN THE EXPLORERS FIRST WHITE MEN TO EXPLORE THE PRESENT UTAH AREA, FATHER ESCA LANTE MOUNTED) AND FATHER DOMINGUEZ, FRANCISCAN FATHERS, AND EIGHT COMPANIONS VISITED EASTERN, CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN UTAH IN 1776. 6 Pioneer Wagon Train JULY 22, 1847, WILLARD RICHARDS (SECOND FIGURE) LED THE WAGON TRAIN INTO THE VALLEY. THEY FOLLOWED THE CREEK ABOUT FIVE MILES AND CAMPED JULY 23 THEY MOVED NORTH TO CITY CREEK AND MODERN IRRIGATION WAS BEGUN JOHN YOUNG GREENE DRIVING "HOSANNA" ORSON PRATT (MOUNTED AND ERATUS SNOW, FIRST OF THE PIO- NERS TO REACH THE VALLEY, SHOUTED, "HOSANNA, HOSANNA HOSANNA," ETC., AS THEY GAINED THEIR FIRST VIEW FROM THE TOP DONNER HILL, APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE TO THE EAST. Pioneer Wagon Train BRIGHAM YOUNG, BIGNER LEADER, DELAYED A SERIOUS ILLNESS REACHED THE VALL INC 24, 1947 TWO DAYS LATER E MAIN COMPANY HIS ARRIVAL ON THAT DAY MARKS UTAH'S PIO NEER DAY ARTER VIEW SCHE EXCLAIMED THIS 9 Pioneer Wagon Train 13 THE DONNER PARTY PRESIDENT YOUNG IN CARRIAGE, WILFORD WOODRUFF DRIVING HEBFRYKIMBALL AND LORENZO DOW YOUNG, NEAR CARRIAGE THE WOMEN ARE ELLEN SAUNDERS KIM- BALL, HARRIET PAGE WHEELER YOUNG AND CLARISSA DECKER YOUNG BOYS ARE ISAAC PERRY DECKER AND LORENZO Z YOUNG 10 ETIENNE PROVOT EXPLORER, TRAPPER AND TRADER. ONE OF THE EARLIEST OF TRAPPERS IN UTAH-1824 PROVO CITY, PROVO RIVER, PROVO CANYON AND PROVO VALLEY CARRY HIS NAME WITH A SLIGHT CHANGE IN SPELLING CALIFORNIA BOUND EMIGRANTS OF 1846 IT TOOK THEM 30 DAYS TO TRAVEL FORTY MILES FROM WEBER VALLEY TO SALT LAKE MORMON PIONEERS IN 1847 COVERED THAT DISTANCE IN 3 DAYS, SAVING THREE WEEKS IN PLANTING POTA TOES AND OTHER CROPS 14 Gen. John C. Fremont IN 1843 JOHN C. FREMONT, THEN A CAPTAIN, MADE A SURVEY OF GREAT SALT LAKE AND THE UTAH VALLEYS. HIS REPORT, PUBLISHED IN 1845, WAS INVALUABLE TO THE MORMON PIO. NEERS ON THEIR WESTWARD JOUR. NEY FREMONT VISITED UTAH IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS. 11 CHIEF WASHAKIE 15 FATHER DE SMET "ONE OF THE NOBLEST, FINEST IN. DIAN CHARACTERS IN THE WEST OF ANY TIME' WASHAKIE, ORPHANED WHEN A BOY, BECAME ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS OF THE SHO SHONES BORN ABOUT 1804, HE BECAME A CLOSE FRIEND OF BRIG- HAM YOUNG AND THE MORMON PEOPLE 12 Peter Skene Ogden FUR TRAPPER AND TRADER FOR THE BRITISH HUDSONT BAY FUR COM PANY ALTHOUGH ONLY A SHORT TIME 1823 HE LEFT HIS NAME ON A UTAH CITY RIVER, CANYON AND VALLEY THE COMING RIVAL AMERICAN TRAPPERS AND TRADERS PAVED THE WAY FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST IN 1846 FATHER PIERRE JEAN DE SMET MET THE MORMON PIONEERS AT WINTER QUARTERS AND GAVE THEM VALUABLE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE VALLEYS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS HE CAME TO UTAH A SECOND TIME IN 858 AS CHAPLAIN IN JOHNSTON'S ARMY 16 Capt BLE Bonneville EXPLORER, ADVENTURER AND DREAMER, CAPT BONNEVILLE, AL- THOUGH NEVER IN THE GREAT BASIN, WAS HONORED BY POSTERITY IN HAVING UTAH'S PREHISTORIC LAKE NAMED FOR HIM. AT HIS EX PENSE, CAPTOS R. WALKER IN 1833 EXPLORED TERRITORY NORTH AND WEST OF GREAT SALT LAKE THIS IS THE PLACE" MONUMENT SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH