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Samuel J. Hensley, returning to California in the summer of 1848, led a pack train of ten men on a quest to get back to the California Trail. After trying Hastings Route south of the Great Salt Lake and finding the salt flats too soft (heavy rains that year) for passage he returned to Salt Lake City and discovered a route, north of the Great Salt Lake.
Later settlements were connected with the eastern regions of the 1848 California Gold Rush, with its immigrants crossing the Great Basin on the California Trail along Nevada's Humboldt River to Carson Pass in the Sierras. The Oregon Territory was established in 1848 and the Utah Territory in 1850.
The California-bound travelers (including one woman and one child), knew only that California was west of them and there was reportedly a river across most of the 'Big Basin' that led part of the way to California. Without guides or maps, they traveled down the Bear River as it looped southwest through Cache Valley, Utah.
Due to the miracle of the gulls incident in 1848, the most well known bird in Utah is the California gull, which is the Utah state bird. [44] [45] A monument in Salt Lake City commemorates this event, known as the "Miracle of the Gulls". [45] Other gulls common to Utah include Bonaparte's gull, [46] the ring-billed gull, and Franklin's gull.
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range in the western United States.The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey.
Out of the 11 states which I-80 passes through, the 197.51-mile-long (317.86 km) segment in Utah is the fourth shortest. As part of the Interstate Highway System, [2] the entire route is listed on the National Highway System, a system of roads that are important to the nation's economy, defense, and mobility.
An enlargeable map of the United States after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848. An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the proposed State of Deseret on July 2, 1849. An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah on ...
The Ute were found over most of modern-day Utah and Colorado, as well as northern New Mexico and Arizona. [52] The Paiutes roamed an area which covered over 45,000 square miles of southern Nevada and California, south-central Utah, and northern Arizona. [53] The Hopi settled the lands of the central and western portions of northern Arizona.