Secret Salt Lake City opens a window into the weird, the bizarre, and the obscure secrets of Salt Lake that are often hiding in plain sight. Utah's unique origin story played out against a backdrop of frontier grit and fierce conflict. In its capital city, the tension between secular and religious realms produced a culture (and counterculture) with unique manifestations and curious relics. Did you know that the Mormons created their own alphabet and that it's hidden in your computer? What do the strange symbols on the LDS Temple mean? Why is there a chunk of the Matterhorn enshrined at a Utah ski resort? What famed pachyderm does the sculpture on the elephant house of SLC's Hogle Zoo depict? How did SLC police capture the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy? And what is the origin of Iosepa, a Hawaiian ghost town in the desert? Authors Jeremy Pugh and Mary Brown Malouf reveal these mysteries and more to pull back the curtain on the secrets of Salt Lake to enrigh your life in the Beehive State (which is another secret to be revealed).--Cover page [4].
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