Utah History

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Did You Know? 

Did You Know? 

The Beehive State

Established 1846, 45th State

• Utah's name comes from the name of the Ute Native American Tribe. 

• Utah women won the right to vote in 1870.  The U.S. Congress rescinded (canceled) it in 1887, but granted it again in 1896.  A Utah woman (Seraph Young) was the first woman in the United States to cast a vote in a municipial (local) election. 

• Butch Cassidy, one of America's most famous outlaws, was bon in Beaver and escaped capture for years by hiding inUtah's rugged canyons and mountains. 

• Utah has living bristlecone pines that are more than four thousand years old. 

• The federal government owns about 65 percent of Utah. Federally owned land includes mountains, deserts, forests, rangeland, and national parks. 

• The first transcontinental U.S. railroad was joined together at Promontory Point on 10 May 1869. 

• Brigham Young University has one of the largest late-Jurassic dinosaur collections in the world. 

• During World, WarII, the U.S. government interned about eight thousand Japanese American at Topaz, a camp near Delta. 

From Culturegrams:

You can access Culturegrams for more State information by going to Utah's Online Library.  Ask a librarian or teacher for home access information. 

Anasazi

Fremont

Utes

Paiute

Goshute

Shoshoni 

Navajo