Soon afterward, the U.S. claimed the land as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War. In 1849 the Mormons, now living in Utah Territory, petitioned to enter ...

So, Rock Springs Wyoming which is where he settled for a while was part of the Utah territory,” Burch said. Dart was said to be the best sharpshooter around, one of his nicknames being “Quick ...

Soon, the Utah Territory was formed, and included all of present-day Utah, most of Nevada, and part of western Colorado and southwestern Wyoming. The territory was reduced in 1861 with the ...

(Woodruff had five or six wives and sired 33 children.) The Mormons had arrived in Utah in 1847, when the territory was still under nominal Mexican control, in search of a religious sanctuary in ...

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