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Natalie Gochnour: Why building a city is like a relay race
In 1846, the namesake of Parley’s Canyon, Parley Pratt, wrote in his journal about the “shout of joy” he and others felt upon first seeing the Salt Lake valley. Pratt helped start what has become 178 years of city building in Utah. Salt Lake City now …