Utah History

By Shayden

  • Fathers Escalante and Dominguez Look for a way from New Mexico to California

    They explored Utah along their route

  • Jim Bridger Discovers the Great Salt Lake

  • First Mormon Settlers

    The first Mormon settlers entered the Salt Lake Valley

  • State of Deseret is proposed

  • Grasshopper plague destroys crops

    Saved by Seagulls

  • The Pony Express

    The Pony Express was a route to deliver mail that came through Utah to speed up deliveries

  • First Transcontinental Telegraph

    Link of the eastern and western telegraph lines in Salt Lake City for easier communication between Washington D.C. and San Francisco

  • Golden Spike

    The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads connect in Utah completing the Transcontinental Railroad

  • Utah Becomes a State

  • State Capitol is completed

  • Indian Relocation Act of 1956

    Encouraged Native Americans to leave their reservations for vocational training in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and Denver