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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; Peterson, Charles S. Utah: A history (WW Norton & Company, 1984), popular survey.
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 ...
U.S. President Richard Nixon signs An Act To establish the Arches National Park in the State of Utah, created from Arches National Monument. [1] [2] 1970: April 1: The 1970 United States Census enumerates the population of the State of Utah, later determined to be 1,059,273, an increase of 18.9% since the 1960 United States Census.
The capital of Utah Territory was relocated that year of 1856 to the major and largest town of Salt Lake City, which built a new territorial capitol building for the government and its assembly and governor's offices for the next four decades and which also continued as the new state capital after statehood in 1896. A massive monumental Utah ...
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
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 church, founded in 1830, banned polygamy in 1890 when the U.S. government threatened to deny Utah statehood. Mormon Church Acknowledges Joseph Smith Had A Teen Bride. More from AOL.com:
Silver Reef is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of St. George and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Leeds.Silver Reef was established after John Kemple, a prospector from Nevada, discovered a vein of silver in a sandstone formation in 1866.