mauer in the gallery. so in 1847 a group of peculiar people arrived in utah, what they found was a place that native americans already knew was quite different than anywhere else. our mountains are taller, our snow is deeper, and our red rocks are other worldly. we have natural wonders, impossible to describe, like goblin valley, dead horse point, the coral pink sand dunes and pando the largest living organism in the world, am i right, representative stratten? [applause] >> the famed explorer, the people on tv have no idea what we're talking about right now, but that's okay. the famed explorer john wesley powell described his travels in utah thusly, past these towering monuments, these billowing orange sandstone, oak set glens, past these fern-decked alcoves, these curves. we glide hour after hour as our attention is caught by wonder. the only thing weirder than that are the people who inhabit it. we have stranger spelled names for places and people. many of us have a grandfather, lavarre or lavon, but we