City of the Saints. The Grand Wasatch Mountains-A Graphic Description of Salt Lake City-Mormon Men and Women-Latter-Day Boys and Girls. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Salt Lake City, May 15, 1877.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

065

Original Date

5-22-1877

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

""The mountains rise grandly round this curious city-the Zion of the new saints-so grandly that the city itself is hardly visible."" Muir describes the modest homes with ""gardens laid out with great simplicity, indicating love of flowers by people comparatively poor."" Of the people he comments that regardless of how the ""'peculiar practices' of Mormonism have affected ... the old Saints, ... these Mormon children, 'Utah's best crop,' seem remarkably bright and promising.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, May 22, 1877

Page/Column

p. 1, col. 3

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 341, v. 8, pp. 105- [113]; no. 350, pp. 105-[ 113].

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "City of the Saints. The Grand Wasatch Mountains-A Graphic Description of Salt Lake City-Mormon Men and Women-Latter-Day Boys and Girls. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Salt Lake City, May 15, 1877." (1877). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 56.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/56