Utah’s First Territorial Capitol, Fillmore, Was Too Remote for Legislators

Only one wing of the Territorial Statehouse was built. Today it is a state park. Yvette D. Ison History Blazer, July 1995 Until 1851 Mormon settlement in Utah was confined mostly to the western slopes of the Wasatch Mountains. When Utah became a territory through the Organic Act of 1850 settlement patterns began to change. Since the new boundaries of …

Wildhorse Canyon Supplied Obsidian

Becky Bartholomew History Blazer, June 1996 In Utah’s Mineral Mountains, overlooking the west desert, is the entrance to Wildhorse Canyon. Here the terrain is rough, blanketed with pinyon and juniper forest underlain by sagebrush, cacti, and grasses. The canyon has no year-round stream. Above its mouth, Wildhorse forks into a small side channel and the main canyon. Lying between the …