In 1857, the U.S. government deployed the strength of its army to exert control over Utah where Mormons had settled and were beginning to claim parts of the territory for
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In 1853, as Capt. John Gunnison led his expedition across western Colorado — including the first wheeled vehicles to cross this part of the state — to assess the possibility