In 1847 a contingent of Mormons under Brigham Young entered the Great Salt Lake Valley to the west of the Uintah region to establish what would become Salt Lake City. In 1831-32 Antoine Robidoux, a French trapper licensed by the Mexican government, established a trading post near present-day Whiterocks. The region was claimed by the Spanish Empire as the Alta California division of New Spain (1521-1821) and was later under Mexican control (1821-1848).īy the early nineteenth century, occasional fur trappers entered the Basin. The first known traverse by non-Indians was made by Fathers Domínguez and Escalante (1776), as they sought to establish a land route between California and Spanish America. By the time of recorded history its inhabitants were the Ute people. Archeological evidence suggests that portions of the Uinta Basin have been inhabited by Archaic peoples and Fremont peoples.
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