The Utah War-The Mormon Response

The Latter-day Saints had been driven from Missouri and Illinois by mobs, and their founder murdered; an army marching toward them, its purpose unstated, looked like annihilation. Brigham Young reactivated the Nauvoo Legion, but ordered a war without killing. Lot Smith's raiders burned wagons and scattered livestock while drawing no blood. Above the narrows of Echo Canyon, some twelve hundred men stacked dry-stone breastworks along the cliffs and dug trenches across the floor, ready to hold the one pass into the valley. The guns were never fired.

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-Diplomacy Prevails — steps away
• Deputy Sheriff Rodney Badger Gave His Life — 4.4 mi