Mormon Country Turquoise Situated in landscapes as diverse

Situated in landscapes as diverse as the minerals themselves

shown with mileage markers and labeled according to designated use

and shimmering desert salt flats

from winding canyons carved by ancient waterways to expansive mesas offering panoramic vistas

Oquirrh Formation strata are exposed in the West Hills and Junction Hills

Mormon Country Turquoise Situated in landscapes as diverseWhere others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their lovely Deseret, a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed