Westward Expansion Trails the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The Mormon Trail followed part of the Oregon Trail and then branched off at the fur trading post called Fort Bridger, founded by famed mountain man Jim Bridger. Heading south and following river valleys southwestward to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, Brigham Young led the first Mormons into present-day Utah during 1847. The Mormon Trail is 1,300 miles long and extends from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. The Mormon Trail was used for more than 20 years after the Mormons used it and has been reserved for sightseeing. The initial
Salt Lake City Weekly Salt Lake City Weekly Salt Lake City Weekly (usually shortened to "City Weekly") is a free alternative weekly tabloid-paged newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah. It began as "Private Eye". "City Weekly" is published and dated for every Thursday by Copperfield Publishing Inc. of which John Saltas is majority owner and president. John Saltas founded what would become "Salt Lake City Weekly" in June 1984. He called his monthly publication "Private Eye" because it contained news and promotions for bars and dance clubs, which due to Utah State liquor laws were all private clubs. Saltas originally mailed the "Private