Mormon Country Turquoise shown with mileage markers and

shown with mileage markers and labeled according to designated use

Rebecca Molinari

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

and shimmering desert salt flats

Situated in landscapes as diverse as the minerals themselves

Mormon Country Turquoise shown with mileage markers andWhere 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