This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "History of Salt Lake City" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(July 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Salt Lake City Temple under construction
Originally, the Salt Lake Valley was inhabited by the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute Native American tribes. At the time of the founding of Salt Lake City the valley was within the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone, who had their seasonal camps along streams within the valley and in adjacent valleys.[1] One of the local Shoshone tribes, the Western Goshute tribe, referred to the Great Salt Lake as Pi'a-pa, meaning "big water", or Ti'tsa-pa, meaning "bad water".[2][3] The land was treated by the United States as public domain; no aboriginal title by the Northwestern Shoshone was ever recognized by the United States or extinguished by treaty with the United States.[4] Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Spanish Franciscan missionary is considered the first European explorer in the area in 1776, but only came as far north as Utah valley (Provo), some 60 miles south of the Salt Lake City area. The first US visitor to see the Salt Lake area was Jim Bridger in 1824. U.S. Army officer John C. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845.[5] The Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley a year before the Mormon pioneers. This group had spent weeks traversing difficult terrain and brush, cutting a road through the Wasatch Mountains, coming through Emigration canyon into the Salt Lake Valley on August 12, 1846. This same path would be used by the vanguard company of Mormon pioneers, and for many years after that by those following them to Salt Lake.[6]
^Pages 6 and 7, The Shoshoni Frontier and the Bear River Massacre, Brigham D. Madsen, foreword by Charles S. Peterson, University of Utah Press (1985, paperback 1995), trade paperback, 286 pages, ISBN 0-87480-494-9
^"Place and Personal Names of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Page 12". 1913: 1–20. JSTOR 983995. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^"Place and Personal Names of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Page 9". 1913: 1–20. JSTOR 983995. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^NORTHWESTERN BANDS OF SHOSHONE INDIANS v. UNITED STATES. United States Supreme Court, April 9, 1945 89 L.Ed. 985; 65 S.Ct. 690; 324 U.S. 335
^Alexander, Thomas G. "Utah History to Go - Fremont's Exploration". Utah State Historical Society. Retrieved 2006-12-15.
^Beecher, Dale (1994), "The Donner Party", Utah History Encyclopedia, University of Utah Press, ISBN 9780874804256, archived from the original on March 25, 2023, retrieved March 28, 2024
and 26 Related for: History of Salt Lake City information
SaltLakeCity International Airport (IATA: SLC, ICAO: KSLC, FAA LID: SLC) is a joint military/public airport located about 4 miles (6.4 km; 3.5 nmi) west...
Real SaltLake (RSL) is an American professional soccer club based in the SaltLakeCity metropolitan area. The club competes as a member club of Major...
The SaltLakeCity and County Building, usually called the "City-County Building", is the seat of government for SaltLakeCity, Utah. The historic landmark...
laid out originates at Temple Square, the location of the SaltLake Temple. Downtown SaltLakeCity is usually defined as the area approximately between...
The SaltLakeCity Stars are an American minor-league professional basketball team. They are a member of the NBA G League, based in West Valley City, Utah...
The SaltLake Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Temple Square in SaltLakeCity, Utah, United States. At 253,015...
part of the PCL, including the 2021 season when the league was called Triple-A West. After the 1914 Pacific Coast League season, SaltLakeCity businessman...
SaltLake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part of the...
The SaltLake Tabernacle, also known as the Mormon Tabernacle, is located on Temple Square in SaltLakeCity, in the U.S. state of Utah. The Tabernacle...
The SaltLakeCity Intermodal Hub (also known as SaltLake Central on Utah Transit Authority [UTA] routes and SLC by Amtrak) is a multi-modal transportation...
The SaltLakeCity Public Library system's main branch building is an architecturally unique structure in SaltLakeCity, Utah. It is located at 210 East...
The SaltLakeCity Bees was a primary moniker of the minor league baseball teams, based in SaltLakeCity, Utah between 1911 and 1970 under various names...
expansion team that will be based in SaltLakeCity. The team will compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division in the Western...
The SaltLakeCity Union Pacific Depot is a building on the western edge of downtown SaltLakeCity, Utah, United States. Built in 1908–09, it dates back...
SaltLakeCity, Utah has many historic and notable sites within its immediate borders. Although the entire SaltLakeCity metropolitan area is often referred...
The SaltLakeCity Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race run in SaltLakeCity, Millcreek and Holladay, Utah. It was first held in 2004. The race begins...
SaltLakeCity Weekly (usually shortened to City Weekly) is a free alternative weekly tabloid-paged newspaper published in SaltLakeCity, Utah. It began...
The Diocese ofSaltLakeCity (Latin: Diœcesis Civitatis Lacus Salsi) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church for the State of Utah in the United...
February 8 to 24, 2002, in and around SaltLakeCity, Utah, United States. SaltLakeCity was selected as the host city in June 1995 at the 104th IOC Session...
Global Information
