The Utah War-Diplomacy Prevails

No battle ever came. Through the winter of 1858, Thomas Kane — a Pennsylvania outsider who had befriended the Mormons — traveled by sea and overland to broker a peace, meeting Brigham Young and then the army's camp. Young agreed to let the new federal governor, Alfred Cumming, enter Salt Lake without troops. Militiamen escorted Cumming through Echo Canyon at night, bonfires blazing along the ledges to show off the empty forts. Buchanan issued a pardon; the Saints accepted it. The army passed through a city its people had already emptied.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Utah Olympic Park — 21 mi
  The ski jumping and bobsled venue from the 2002 Winter Olympics
• Park City Mountain — 24 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States, grown straight out of a 19th-century silver town.
• Park City — 24 mi
  Silver built it. Snow saved it.
• Park City Main Street — 24 mi
  A historic mining town turned world-class ski and film festival destination

More markers nearby

• The Utah War-fortifying Echo Canyon — steps away
• The Utah War-U.S Army Sent West — steps away
• The Utah War-The Mormon Response — steps away
• Deputy Sheriff Rodney Badger Gave His Life — 4.4 mi