The locomotive was the Central Pacific locomotive that met with Union Pacific No. 119 at Promontory Point, Utah on May 10, 1869 for the driving of the golden spike, commemorating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
He provided the golden spike marking completion of the rail and he also planned connecting the railroad company's wires to Western Union so the taps of the silver hammer driving the golden spike in Promontory Point, Utah could be heard in San Francisco.
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The 2/192nd Field Artillery Battalion was mobilized in April 2002 in support of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.
It is known only from the type locality, and a modern collection made from Marks Creek Township, Wake County, North Carolina, although Knudsen suggests that it may occur infrequently from Utah and the Colorado Plateau south into Mexico.
Annie Taylor Hyde (née Anna Maria Ballantyne Taylor), Mormon leader and Utah Pioneer
The Kennecott Copper Corporation, established in 1903 to operate mines in Kennecott, Alaska, purchased a financial interest in Utah Copper in 1915 and fully acquired the company in 1936.
It began in March 1914 and was the result of an incident between a Utah shepherd and Tse-ne-gat, the son of the Paiute Chief Polk.
Its first film, Fire Creek, was released digitally for select theaters in Utah May 8, 2009.
The La Garita Caldera is a large volcanic caldera located in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado, United States, and is one of a number of calderas that formed during a massive ignimbrite flare-up in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada during the Oligocene Epoch.
She then returned to Utah where she worked for a law firm until being hired as in-house counsel by First Interstate Bank in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she stayed until 1989.
Latter Day Church of Christ, a Mormon fundamentalist denomination based in Utah
Coyote Springs, Utah, a Tule Valley spring system used by local wildlife and feral horses.
Supported by a group of investors that included Utah Senator Reed Smoot and the president of the Western Pacific Railroad, planning for the new railway began in 1916, and it was constructed the following year.
Matias Vernengo, a University of Utah economist, identifies two main streams in dependency theory: the Latin American Structuralist, typified by the work of Prebisch, Celso Furtado and Anibal Pinto at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC, or, in Spanish, CEPAL); and the American Marxist, developed by Paul A. Baran, Paul Sweezy, and Andre Gunder Frank.
For periods of time he has also been a member of the University of Utah Alumni Board and the National Advisory Board of the Utah Symphony.
It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from Beaver County.
The company sponsors various non-profit organizations, community-oriented programs, and business development projects locally and nationally, including the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Utah County, Habitat for Humanity, and Great Strides, a national fundraising event run by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Indi Script Records is an independent record label founded in 1999 by Mateus Kotok, a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and painter born in Ogden, Utah, in 1971.
Among other locations, Richards work has been shown at the Springville Museum of Art; the Renaissance Center Juried Show in Nashville, Tennessee; the Provo Arts Council Freedom Festival Fine Art Exhibit; the Bountiful/Davis Art Center; at Southern Virginia University as part of its Annual Shenandoah Invitational Art Show; at the Robert N. & Peggy Sears Dixie State Invitational Art Shows in St. George, Utah; and the Museum of Church History and Art.
He was a probate judge for Salt Lake County, Utah from 1892 to 1895, and surveyor general of Utah from 1897 to 1901.
He is the great-great-great grandson of Daniel Webster Jones, an influential early settler in Utah and the Arizona Territory.
This place-name gave rise to the modern names of Utah’s Weber Canyon, Weber County and Weber State University.
In Utah Territory, with Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith as assistant commander, Gunnison began the survey of a possible route, surveying areas across the Rocky Mountains via the Herfano River, through Cochetopa Pass, and by way of the present Gunnison and Green rivers to the Sevier River.
Current and recent major works include the Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Hoboken Ferry Terminal in New Jersey, the Tiber River in Rome, and public buildings in Florida and Utah.
The town of Kanosh dates back to April 28, 1867 when Brigham Young, with the approval of Chief Kanosh, advised the pioneers to move from Petersburg (Hatton), Utah to the area then known as the campground of the Pahvant band of the Ute Tribe.
Many of Utah's performing arts organizations started in Kingsbury Hall including Ballet West and Utah Opera.
KJZZ-TV, a television station (channel 14 analog/46 digital) licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
KSVN-CD, a television station (channel 49) licensed to Ogden, Utah, United States
KTUB, a radio station (1600 AM) licensed to Centerville, Utah, United States, which held the call sign KXTA from September 2005 to November 2007
KZNS-FM, a radio station (97.5 FM) licensed to serve Coalville, Utah, United States, which held the call sign KZZQ from 2008 to 2011
Margaret R. Bird (born 1947) is an economist and school trust lands activist in Utah.
William H. Doughty, the institute's founder and money manager, accepted over $1 million in donations and loans from backers in an attempt to build a conservative Utopia in Duck Creek and Mammoth Valley, Utah (near Hatch).
Stewart served for at time as United States Attorney for the District of Nevada pursuant to an appointment by the Federal Judges of that District, and later was a legal advisor to Governor Michael Leavitt of Utah.
LDS Church leaders taught the concept of blood atonement well into the 20th century within the context of government-sanctioned capital punishment, and it was responsible for laws in the state of Utah allowing for execution by firing squad (Salt Lake Tribune, 11/5/94, p. D1).
Obert C. Tanner (1904–1993), a University of Utah professor of philosophy, philanthropist, and businessman
Even though the United States Supreme Court has ruled that sodomy laws are unconstitutional (see Lawrence v. Texas), Outright Libertarians seeks to have states repeal the laws from the books, such as the one in Utah.
While fishing together on September 17, 2001, their canoe capsized under high winds at Strawberry Reservoir, Utah.
Riesen was for many years a versatile broadcaster, at stations including KIFI in Idaho Falls, Idaho and KALL and KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Political figures, such as Utah Senator Orrin Hatch (a member of the LDS Church), as well as academics, such as the University of Florida's Kenneth Wald, have praised it.
Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, volume 4, "Original Pioneers of Utah"
Samuel Newhouse (1853 – 1930), Utah entrepreneur and mining magnate
Samuel W. Richards (1824–1909), religious and political leader in Utah
Scott Matheson, Jr. (born 1953) son of the above, US Attorney for Utah from 1993–1997, currently a judge on the 10th United States Circuit Court
In 1909, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation completed a tunnel to supplement the Spanish Fork's flow using water from the Strawberry River through the Strawberry Valley Project, part of the Central Utah Project.
In 1965, Berton Roueché described his wonderful trip along the Green River that set out from the Circle S Ranch in Cora, Wyoming in Subletter County with the ranch's foreman Thomas Scholebo.
Dallin House, Springville, Utah, NRHP-listed, significant for its association with Dallin
Many of the stories take place in, or are connected to, a fictional post-apocalyptic state of Deseret around the former Mormon areas of Utah, which was clearly inspired by the historical State of Deseret.
Tragic Black is an American deathrock band formed in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2000 by musicians known as Vision and Vyle.
This rest area, which is designed to mimic an early 1900s era train depot and roundhouse, was voted one of the most beautiful buildings in Utah in a contest sponsored by the American Institute of Architects.
The Utah Sucker, Catostomus ardens, is a sucker of the family Catostomidae found in the upper Snake River and the Lake Bonneville areas of western North America.
Novell and WordPerfect were instrumental in making the Utah Valley a focus for software development.
West Wendover is located on the eastern border of Nevada and the western edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert and is contiguous with Wendover, Utah, with which it is sometimes confused.