Unca Sam Bust

Unca Sam was a Ute hunter and trader who, in 1879, was sent east in a delegation to negotiate with a federal government that had already decided the Ute people would lose their Colorado homelands—the killings at the White River agency that year became the pretext for forcing his people onto Utah's Uintah Reservation. The marble bust here, carved by sculptor Millard Malin, sits in the Capitol's fourth-floor gallery. It honors a man asked to make peace in the middle of his nation's removal.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Salt Lake City — 0.5 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 0.5 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Ensign Peak — 0.9 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Liberty Park — 2.3 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Chief John Duncan — steps away
• Brigham Young Statue — steps away
• Emmeline Wells Bust — steps away
• Daniel C. Jackling — steps away