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== The Earliest Years == | == The Earliest Years == | ||
There is a great deal of controversy concerning when and how the early inhabitants of what is now Utah reached the area but there have been a succession of prehistoric cultural traditions since approximately 12,000 years ago. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Southwestern_Cultural_Divisions Wikipedia: Prehistoric Southwestern Cultural Divisions] | |||
In the | Between about 1A.D. to 1300 the Anasazi and Fremont Indians had an agricultural based society known as the Puebloan culture, in what is now southern Utah.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Pueblo_Peoples Wikiepedia:Ancient Pueblo Peoples] The Ute, Bannock, Gosiute, Paiutes, Shoshone and Navajo tribes lived throughout what is now the State many years before the arrival of explorers, mountain men and pioneer settlers. See [[Indians of Utah]]. <ref>[http://www.utahtravelcenter.com/utahhistory.htm Utah Travel Center, History]</ref> | ||
In the 1700s, while the United States was declaring independence from England, Catholic Spanish Explorers and Mexican traders drew journals documenting Utah's terrain, and the native people, as well as many of its plants and animals. In the 1820s, Mountain men like Jedediah Smith, William Ashley and Jim Bridger roamed northern Utah, taking advantage of abundant fur trapping opportunities.<ref>[http://www.utahtravelcenter.com/utahhistory.htm Utah Travel Center, History]</ref> | |||
== Background Information == | == Background Information == | ||