US State of Utah
The Beehive State
on full color custom decorated photo coffee mugs

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Text on Utah, The Beehive State Coffee Mug:
The region was first explored for Spain by Franciscan friars Escalante and Dominguez in 1776. In 1824 the famous American frontiersman Jim Bridger discovered the Great Salt Lake. Fleeing religious persecution in the East and Midwest, the Mormons arrived in 1847 and began to build Salt Lake City. The U.S. acquired the Utah region in the treaty ending the Mexican War in 1848, and the first transcontinental railroad was completed with the driving of a golden spike at Promontory Summit in 1869. - Origin of name: From the Ute tribe, meaning “people of the mountains” - Nickname: The Beehive State - State motto: "Industry" means steady effort. Salt Lake City is Utah’s capital and largest city.

High Colorado plateau cut by brilliantly colored canyons in the southeast; broad, flat, desert like Great Basin of the west; the Great Salt Lake and Bonneville Salt Flats in the northwest; Middle Rockies in the northeast running east-west; valleys and plateaus of the Wasatch Front.. Utah is a great vacationland with 11,000 mi of fishing streams and 147,000 acres of lakes and reservoirs. Among the many tourist attractions are Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, and Zion National Parks; Cedar Breaks, Dinosaur, Hovenweep, Natural Bridges, Rainbow Bridge, Timpanogos Cave, and Grand Staircase (Escalante) National Monuments; the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City; and Monument Valley. Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. The flag shows that Utah supports the United States. The eagle stands for protection in peace and war. The date 1847 represents the year that Brigham Young led a group of people to the Salt Lake Valley to reestablish in Utah, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, also know as The Mormons. The date 1896 represents the year that Utah gained admission to the Union of the United States as the 45th State.