The top of the 1947 monument. The central figure is Mormon leader Brigham Young, who came in after the main part of his group. Young was bedridden in a wagon. A diary shows he said: "This is the right place. Drive on."

2,000 Mormons were in that first group of Salt Lake area settlers. None had ever seen the area, and could not know whether its virgin soil would grow crops from the seeds they planted.