Note 4 — Group II. BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN IDEA. (continued 2)
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Utah is the name of an Indian tribe, said to mean "those who dwell on the mountains." It was formed into a Territory, 1850. "The great basin, six hundred miles by three hundred, seems to have been a vast inland sea. The immediate valley in which Salt Lake lies is much its best portion, and with irrigation the soil is very productive."—A. D. Richardson. But for polygamy, Utah would long ago have been a State in the Union.