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Photographer: Ray Fowler
Caption: Soldier Summit Marker
Additional Description: On Sept. 11, 1776 two Franciscan Priests. Father Escalante and Father Dominguez entered what is now the State of Utah, as no several weeks later they camped in a mountain pass. It is believed that the fathers gave the pass its first name, calling it Grassy Pass. The name was changed to Soldier Pass when Johnson's Army at Camp Floyd was ordered east in 1861. About 40 officers & enlisted men from the Southern States were given permission to leave the U.S. Army & go south to join the Confederate Army. They arrived at Grassy Pass in a blizzard. Six or Seven men & a fourteen year old boy were frozen to death & were buried by a spring near the summit of the pass. The Rio Grande Western Railroad Company in 1880 named the pass Soldier Summit in its first time table.
Submitted: October 1, 2018, by Frank Gunshow Sanchez of Hollister, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p447673
File Size: 0.452 Megabytes

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