He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory, United States.

Brigham Young took Smith's advice and led his followers, known in modern times as the Mormon pioneers, to Nebraska and then in 1847 to what became the Utah Territory.

Nevertheless, the LDS Church still wielded significant political power in the Utah Territory as part of a shadow government.

As the area was part of the Utah Territory, it was governed from Salt Lake City, where the territorial government was headquartered.

* 1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Utah Territory.

In the Compromise of 1850, Utah and New Mexico Territory had been organized without any restrictions on slavery, and many supporters of Douglas argued that this compromise had already superseded the Missouri Compromise.

They agreed to support the United States in the event of any issue between them and the people of any Territory, and to do what they could to suppress rebellion in Utah.

After Smith's death in 1844 the Mormons followed Brigham Young to what would become the Utah Territory.

To prevent war, Brigham Young led the Mormon pioneers ( constituting most of the Latter Day Saints ) to a temporary winter quarters in Nebraska and then eventually ( beginning in 1847 ) to what became the Utah Territory.

Nevertheless, the LDS Church still wielded significant political power in the Utah Territory.

The largest group of Mormons, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, accepted Brigham Young as the new prophet / leader and emigrated to what became the Utah Territory.

The United States gained the territory in 1848 following its victory in the Mexican-American War and the area was eventually incorporated as part of Utah Territory in 1850.

The discovery of silver at the Comstock Lode in 1859 led to a population boom that was an impetus to the creation of Nevada Territory out of western Utah Territory in 1861.

However, under the Compromise of 1850, Utah Territory was created and Brigham Young was appointed governor.

* June 8 – The discovery of the Comstock Lode in the western Utah Territory setting off the Rush to Washoe

* February 12 – Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory.

) After the rail line's initial steep climb through the bluffs of west Omaha and out of the Missouri River Valley, the route followed the Platte River west through Nebraska, establishing many townships along the way ( Elkhorn, Grand Island, North Platte, Ogallala, Sidney, Nebraska ), the Colorado Territory ( Julesburg ), the Wyoming Territory ( Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Evanston ), the Utah Territory ( Ogden, Brigham City, Corinne ), and connecting with the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.

It passed through Newcastle, California and Truckee, California, Reno, Nevada, Wadsworth, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Elko, and Wells, Nevada, before connecting with the Union Pacific line at Promontory Summit in the Utah Territory.

As the track approached Utah Territory, he sought a labor contract with the Union Pacific.

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* The South avoided adoption of the symbolically significant Wilmot Proviso and the new New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory could in principle decide in the future to become slave states ( popular sovereignty ), even though Utah and a northern fringe of New Mexico were north of the Missouri Compromise Line where slavery had previously been banned in territories.

In the Utah gubernatorial election, 2004 nearly 70 % of the county's vote went for Jon Huntsman, Jr. and in the 2008 election he received roughly 75 % of the vote.

The Colorado River forms most of the county's western boundary, and California, Nevada and Utah all border it.

Roosevelt has become the county's educational center with Union High School, Uintah Basin Applied Technology College, and Utah State University's Uintah Basin Regional Campus all located there.

Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.

Congress transferred land previously allocated to the Utah Territory by declaring the boundary of Colorado to be the 32nd meridian west from Washington.

The boundary as originaly defined legitimately extended beyond Utah into southwestern Wyoming, but also contained populated territory within what was actually Idaho Territory.

The northern boundary of Uintah County originally extended to the north border of Utah.

Historically Weber County stretched from the California, Oregon, Utah Territory border in the north west, to the current boundary in the south east.

While older and more populous settlements existed within the boundaries of the new county, the original county seat was established at Soda Springs in present-day Caribou County because those older settlements were believed to be in Utah Territory until the southern boundary of Idaho Territory was surveyed in 1870.

Most important it gave the United States the Rio Grande boundary for Texas, and gave the U. S. ownership of California, and a large area comprising New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.

* Eaton & Cifelli ( 2001 ), " Multituberculate mammals from near the Early-Late Cretaceous boundary, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah ".

* Eaton & Cifelli ( 2001 ), " Multituberculate mammals from near the Early-Late Cretaceous boundary, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah ".

The primary species, Janumys erebos, also named by Eaton and Cifelli, was found in the Albian-Cenomanian, Lower-Upper Cretaceous boundary of the Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah ( USA ).

* Eaton and Cifelli ( 2001 ), Multituberculate mammals from near the Early-Late Cretaceous boundary, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah.

Its fossil remains were discovered in strata dating to the Albian-Cenomanian boundary ( also the Lower-Upper Cretaceous boundary ) in the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah ( USA ).

Natural Bridges National Monument is a U. S. National Monument located about north west of the Four Corners boundary of southeast Utah, in the western United States, at the junction of White Canyon and Armstrong Canyon, part of the Colorado River drainage.

The Compromise of 1850 allowed the territories of Utah and New Mexico to decide for or against slavery, but it also allowed the admission of California as a free state, reduced the size of the slave state of Texas by adjusting the boundary, and ended the slave trade ( but not slavery itself ) in the District of Columbia.

The area's western boundary is formed by Utah Lake in Utah County, the Oquirrh Mountains in Salt Lake County, and the Great Salt Lake in northwestern Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, and southeastern Box Elder Counties.

After 1850 the Pass became part of Utah Territory, and in 1872 an Idaho-Utah boundary survey error placed Granite Pass in Idaho Territory.

The settlers believed the town to be located in Utah until a survey in 1872 showed that it was in fact in Idaho.

Its political status remained ambiguous until an 1872 survey determined the townsite was in Idaho Territory about north of the Utah Territory border.

By the end of 1872 the telegraph had been extended through Monroe, which connected it with the rest of Utah.

Over the ensuing years, fewer and fewer Timpanogots lived in Utah Valley and by 1872 all Timpanogots had moved to the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation.

* St Abe and his Seven Wives, a lively tale of Salt Lake City, Utah, published anonymously in 1872

However, the church incorporated in 1872 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to distinguish it from the larger Utah church, at the time in the midst of federal issues related to polygamy.

" Attempts were made in 1856, 1862 and 1872 to write a new state constitution under that name based on the new boundaries of the Utah Territory.

Smith served seven terms in the Utah territorial House of Representatives, specifically 1865 – 1870, 1872, and 1874.

* Elise McKenna's character was loosely based upon the life of theatre actress Maude Adams, who was born Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 11, 1872.

Cannon was elected to be the non-voting delegate for Utah Territory in the United States Congress in 1872.

He led the Utes against Mormon settlers and gained alliances with Paiute and Navajo bands in the territory against them during what became known as the Black Hawk War in Utah ( 1865 – 1872 ).

The Black Hawk War in Utah began in 1865 and ended in 1872.

Abraham Owen Woodruff ( November 23, 1872 – June 20, 1904 ), born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

The Golden spike event in Utah the previous year had marked the linking of the Union Pacific with the Central Pacific Railroad, but until 1872, passengers on the Union Pacific were required to disembark between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska to cross the Missouri River by boat.

In 1872 he went to Utah as natural history collector on the Wheeler Expedition, continuing until it merged with the United States Geological Survey in 1879.