AN HISTORICAL RECORD OF THOSE NOW IN SERVICE AND OF THEIR PREDECESSORS OF THE SAME NAME
1776-1915
UTAH
Utah.—One of the United States, which takes its name from an Indian tribe known as the Utes or Yutas, whose hunting grounds embraced three-fourths of the territory enclosed by the present boundaries. By the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, signed in 1848, Utah came under the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, and in 1896 was admitted to the Union.
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