"The great valley...makes all that has gone before fade to nothing–every corn and fruit of Canaan–a vast sweet plain of unimaginable richness–loaded with fruit, bursting with cherry orchards, green with its thick and lush fertility and dotted everywhere with the beauty of incredible trees–clumped cottonwoods and lines and wind–breaks of incredible poplars–a land of promise and promise of plenty."

Thomas Wolfe in Utah, 1938