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UTAH. |
THE first European
visitors to Utah were Captain
Cardenas and his Spanish
men-at-arms, who, in 1540,
reached the San Juan country. The
country of the Utes lay hidden
amid the vast mountains until its
lonely plateaus were traversed by
the Franciscan friars searching
for a route from Santa Fé to
Monterey, California. In 1825
Great Salt Lake was discovered by
James Bridger, a trapper. In 1826
J. S. Smith and fifteen trappers
marched from Great Salt Lake to
San Gabriel, California, and in
1841 Bartleson's party of
emigrants, bound for California,
crossed into Nevada, misled by
mirages and Indian signal fires
on the hills. Fremont's
exploration followed, and
caravans of emigrants began to
move across, north of the lake,
on their perilous way to
California. In 1847, soon after
their expulsion from Nauvoo,
12,000 Mormons camped on the site
of Council Bluffs, and Brigham
Young and 142 picked men marched
westward to find a new home for
their people beyond the United
States. They settled on the site
of Salt Lake City and built up a
powerful community in this new
Holy Land. |
Utah
came into our Republic with the
great cession made by Mexico in
1848, and in 1850 was formed into
a Territory, which then included,
besides its present area, parts
of Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming. |
ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Mormon
Temple, Tabernacle and Assembly
Hall, Salt Lake
City; Completion of the Pacific
Railroad, 1869;
An Indian attack on an Emigrant
Train. |
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