The Founders and Old Sorrel Statue

In 1897 the legislature promised southern Utah a teacher-training school, then gave Cedar City barely a year to raise a building or lose it. That winter, men drove wagons up the mountain to the sawmills through one of the worst storms the region remembered, sleeping in holes scooped from the snow. Coming down, the drifts nearly beat them, until an old sorrel horse was put at the front to break trail, throwing himself into the snow again and again. Jerry Anderson's 1986 bronze remembers the horse they called the expedition's savior.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brian Head — 12 mi
  Utah's highest town — a ski-and-bike base camp at the top of Parowan Canyon
• Cedar Breaks National Monument — 13 mi
  A 2,000-foot-deep amphitheater of vivid orange and red rock
• Parowan Gap Petroglyphs — 13 mi
  An ancient rock art gallery hidden in a desert canyon
• Kolob Canyons — 17 mi
  The quiet, uncrowded back door to Zion National Park

More markers nearby

• The Founders’ Rescue Wagon — steps away
• Ellen (Nellie) Pucell Unthank — 0.3 mi
• Ward Hall — 0.7 mi
• Iron Pioneers Flag Pole — 0.8 mi