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The Mountain Meadows Massacre (September 7–11, 1857) was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train. [1] [a] The massacre occurred in the southern Utah Territory at Mountain Meadows, and was perpetrated by settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ ...
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Golden Spike National Historic Site. Promontory is an area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, 32 mi (51 km) west of Brigham City and 66 mi (106 km) northwest of Salt Lake City. Rising to an elevation of 4,902 feet (1,494 m) above sea level, it lies to the north of the Promontory Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. [2]
The Territory of Idaho was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 3, 1863, [1] until July 3, 1890, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as Idaho .
Malad County, Utah Territory. Coordinates: 41.9°N 113.0°W. Map of 1856 Utah Territory counties in orange. Present-day Utah has a white background. Malad County, Utah Territory was created 12 January 1856 [1] [2] [3] from part of Weber County. The Utah legislature discontinued Malad County on January 17, 1862, and its land was given to Box ...
Utah Statehood. The Utah area became a territory of the United States in 1848, but didn’t become a state until 1896. For most other western states, territorial status was much shorter than this. Idaho, for example, was a territory for about 27 years–half the time that Utah was. Utahns Tried for Almost 50 Years to Win Statehood.
The " Runaway Officials of 1851 " were a group of three federal officers, Judge Perry E. Brocchus, Judge Lemuel G. Brandebury, and Territorial Secretary Broughton Harris, who were appointed to Utah Territory by President Millard Fillmore in 1851. These men arrived in Utah in the summer of that year, and though they were cordially welcomed, they ...
