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Utah Historical Quarterly 66 (1998): 159–177. May, Dean L. Utah: A people's history (U of Utah Press, 1987). Peterson, Charles S. and Brian Q. Cannon. The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the Nation, 1896–1945. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-60781-421-4, scholarly survey
Utah (/ˈjuːtɑː/ YOO-tah, /ˈjuːtɔː/ (listen) YOO-taw) is a state in the Mountain state subregion of the Western United States with a population of 3 million people. [1] Originally populated by the Ancestral Puebloans , Ute , Navajo , and Fremont people, Utah has experienced several waves of immigration over its history, leading to a ...
Mormon historian B. H. Roberts noted in his work A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: On the announcement of the United States naval officer, who boarded the Brooklyn as she came to anchor, that the emigrants "were in the United States of America," three hearty cheers were given in reply... Three weeks ...
After 1860, the church began sending wagon companies east each spring, to return to Utah in the summer with the emigrating Latter-day Saints. Finally, with the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, future emigrants were able to travel by rail, and the era of the Mormon pioneer trail came to an end. [19]
The state of Utah relies heavily on income from tourists and travelers visiting the state's parks and ski resorts, and thus the need to "brand" Utah and create an impression of the state throughout the world has led to several state slogans, the most famous of which is "The Greatest Snow on Earth", which has been in use in Utah officially since ...
The world started to come to Salt Lake City in 1869 with the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States at Promontory Summit, north of the city. By 1870, Salt Lake had been linked to it via the Utah Central Rail Road. People began to pour into Salt Lake seeking opportunities in mining and other industries.
The Salt Lake Tribune examines the shifting political landscape and its effect on Utah's Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante—an ongoing fight that an area business owner refers to as "living ...
The Paiute people are native to Utah and were a nomadic people that traveled quite frequently. Their original territory covered 30 million acres, in which they moved around following the seasons and animal migration. [14] Paiutes were relatively unharmed by European settlement until the 1850s when Mormon settlers came to their territory. [14]