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On the streets of Salt Lake City in 1880, one would likely run across varieties ... one could hear accents from every U.S. state and territory except Alaska. The result of such phonetic disarray: Utah ...
Caleb W. West, Governor of Utah, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior estimates the population of the Territory at 210,000, an increase of about 66,000 since 1880. View Full Artic ...
On April 30, 1872, St. Mark's Hospital opened its doors as the first medical facility in the Utah Territory. Overseen by Episcopalian Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle, the hospital was housed in a rented ...
In a new Netflix series, we get a look at the lawless Utah Territory in the 1850s, when battles between settlers, Mormons, Native Americans and the US Military came to a head. Opening Shot ...
He said the scenes before him and the events of Saturday (the thirty-fourth anniversary of the arrival of the Mormons in the Territory) carried his mind backthrough the history of the latterday ...
The wagon train party was attacked by Mormon militias at Mountain Meadows, a rest stop on the Old Spanish Trail in the Utah Territory, during a time of high tensions between Utah and the U.S ...
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘American Primeval’ On Netflix, About The Violent, Chaotic World Of The Utah Territory In The 1850s ...