| LC control no. | no2019109190 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Utah Territory |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Utah Territory |
| Variant(s) | Territory of Utah |
| See also | Utah Deseret Colorado Nevada Territory Wyoming Territory |
| Beginning date | 1850-09-09 |
| Ending date | 1896-01-04 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Found in | Journal of the West, 1977: vol. 16, no. 2, page 44 (Utah Territory; article in a special issue of the Journal of the West on The Western territories in the Civil War) Wikipedia, website viewed July 22, 2019 (Utah Territory; the Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850 until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah; it initially included all of present day Utah and parts of Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming; Colorado Territory was created February 28, 1861 from a large portion of the eastern area of the territory; Nevada Territory was created March 2, 1861 from the western part of the territory; and Wyoming Territory was formed July 25, 1868; Brigham Young was the first governor af the territory, follewd by George W. Emery, Ei Houston Murray and Caleb Walten West; the capital of the territory was Fillmore from 1851 to 1856 and then Salt Lake City; the creation of the Utah Territory was partially the result of the petition sent by the Mormon pioneers who had settled in the valley of the Great Salt Lake starting in 1847; the Mormons, under the leadership of Brigham Young, had petitioned Congress for entry into the Union as the State of Deseret) |
| Geographic area code | n-us-ut n-us-nv n-us-co n-us-wy |
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