"A predominantly rural flavor permeates the scene and senses as one experiences a small Mormon community...and there even remain [secluded rural pockets] within the sprawling urban organism of the Wasatch Front. Just minutes from downtown Salt Lake City stand sun–bleached barns of near a hundred winters never having felt the stroke of brush and paint...or some forgotten granary...lurking behind a garden amid suburbia...historical relics on the urban veneer."

Gary Brent Peterson, 1974