On a spring day in 1877, a man named George Carter drowned while pushing railroad ties down Utahâs upper Weber River. Carterâs memorial sits atop a bluff overlooking the river near Oakley, offering a testament to pioneersâ persistence and willingness to risk everything to build a new civilization in the Westâs valleys, mountains and deserts. The chunk of engraved granite also helps prove that stretch of the Weber was once a navigable âhighway of commerce.â If logs made it down the river, stream...