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Utah History to Go: Traders, Trappers, and Mountain Men

For Students 9th - 10th
Utah History to Go is an online course divided into eight chapters. This is one section of the third chapter that looks at the different groups of traders in Utah in the 1800s, and the types of goods they traded. It also describes the...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Jedediah S. Smith

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a biography about Jedediah Smith, centering primarily around his explorations of the West in the 19th century.
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University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Mountain Meadows Massacre (1875 76)

For Students 9th - 10th
Called "the darkest deed of the nineteenth century," the brutal 1857 murder of 120 men, women, and children at a place in southern Utah called Mountain Meadows remains one of the most controversial events in the history of the American...