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KUER’s Ivana Martinez joined Utah history buffs on a rainy and windy Memorial Day as they gathered to relive part of the Mormon rebellion.

Salt Lake City, state capital and seat (1849) of Salt Lake county, north-central Utah, U.S., situated on the Jordan River at the southeastern end of Great Salt Lake. The world capital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), it influences the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people in a wide area of Utah and bordering regions of Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming. Built on benches of ancient Lake Bonneville, the city (approximate elevation 4,300 feet [1,300 metres]) lies at the foot of the Wasatch Range, which rises more than 1 mile (1.6 km) above the

After passing through the Grand Valley in the autumn of 1857, the military command led by Captain R.B. Marcy continued south. By Dec. 8, it had reached the confluence of

Mercur Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA : The Mercur (Lewiston, Camp Floyd) mining district lies in the southwestern Oquirrh Mountains about 35 mi southwest of Salt Lake City. The district was initially organized in 1870, was intermittently ...