Next to the state capital is this monument. This Mormon Battalion acknowledges the sacrifices made by 500 Mormon pioneer volunteers who joined the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War. The 100-foot rose pink granite & bronze statue was sculpted by Riswold & dedicated in 1927. Figures appear on all sides of the monument, chronicling different periods of the Battalion's history: the Enlistment, the March, the Discovery of Gold in California, and the Arrival of the Pueblo Detachment to the Salt Lake Valley. read more

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