Interesting Facts about Utah

• The beautiful Seagull monument at Salt Lake City pays tribute to the bird that saved the first Mormon crops.
• The Navajo banned their ancient symbol of friendship during World War II because it resembled the Nazi swastika.
• Celebrating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, Governor Leland Stanford of California swung his sledgehammer at the gold spike--and missed.
• Zion Narrows canyon is so narrow and deep that even in bright daylight stars are visible from the canyon bottom.
• When Bishop Whipple of Minnesota asked a Utah chief if his belongings were safe in his tent, the chief replied, "Yes, there is not a white man within a hundred miles."
• Brigham Young did not choose the Salt Lake valley for its beauty but rather because it was so desolate he thought no one would ever try to take it away from his Mormon people.