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| | Common-place: A View from Graveside: Salt Lake City |
 | | Salt Lake City is actually the fifth in the series of Mormon-planned cities that began with the "City of Zion" mapped out by Joseph Smith in 1833 for Independence, Missouri, followed by similar plats for Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; and Nauvoo, Illinois. |
 | | Salt Lake Citys cemetery was laid out when the garden cemetery movement was getting started nationwide, but for the first half century the cemetery could not have been much more than a bare, sun-baked, southern slope of the mountain, with nothing but a magnificent view. |
 | | Salt Lake City life is preserved in hundreds of diaries and reminiscences like the Lyman histories quoted here: "Willard H. Lyman: History and Life Sketches," 1961, typescript, and "History and Reminiscences of Hildegarde Sophia Schoenfeld Lyman," 1961, typescript, both edited by Cherry Bushman and in the authors possession. |
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