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Article Title

New Photograph of the Granite Shaft for the Brigham Young Monument

Authors

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel
J. Michael Hunter

Keywords

Mormon studies, Brigham Young, photography, monuments

Abstract

In July 1987, Latter-day Saints from throughout the Intermountain West gathered for a five-day celebration honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of Brigham Young to the Great Basin. On the first day of the celebration, a large crowd gathered at the intersection of Main and South Temple to dedicate an unfinished monument (fig. 1). A lone statue of Brigham Young stood upon a tall granite shaft taken from Little Cottonwood Canyon in June 1897, just weeks before. A rare photograph recorded the scene after the shaft was loaded onto a wagon for the first leg of it journey to the site of the Monument to Brigham Young and the Pioneers (fig. 2).

Recommended Citation

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel and Hunter, J. Michael (2000) "New Photograph of the Granite Shaft for the Brigham Young Monument," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 39: Iss. 4, Article 11.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol39/iss4/11