SALT LAKE CITY — The Latter-day Saint pioneers who traveled to the Salt Lake Valley wrote about both the miracles and the tragedies they encountered along the way. The greatest tragedy was the loss of children who died along the trail.
On a bluff overlooking the Salt Lake Valley, inside This is the Place Heritage Park, is a set of stones.
The stones and 47 sculptures are a memorial to the more than 800 pioneer children who started the trek West to the Salt Lake Valley but died along the way…