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The Old Sorrel statue was sculpted by Jerry Anderson in remembrance of the people as well as the horse who helped found this University. In 1897 the entire population of Cedar City (1,500) engaged in building Old Main, the first building of the University. The men and women of the community donated money, materials, and labor to complete the building and meet the deadline imposed by the state. Families mortgaged their homes; one man even sold his farm to provide operating funds for the school. Beginning the project in mid-winter, many men from town literally risked their lives to gather lumber off the snow packed mountaintops during the worst winter of the century. The initial mountain expedition that resulted in the building of Old Main would have been dysfunctional had it not been for an old sorrel horse the mountain party placed at the beginning of it’s expedition up Cedar Canyon to obtain lumber. The horse waded into the record high snowdrifts. Years later those who participated in the maiden trip into the mountains credited “Old Sorrel”, as they called him, as the savior of the expedition. |
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