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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colorado, (search)
.....1860 Act erecting a new territory to be called Colorado......Feb. 28, 1861 [Name suggested by William Gilpin, first governor.] William Gilpin commissioned governor......1861 Hiram P. Bennett first delegate to Congress......1861 First legislature meets at Denver......1861 Great suffering from cold during the winter and drought during the summer of......1863 Great flood at Denver......April, 1864 Colonel Chivington, with 900 men, attacks an Indian camp at Sand Creek, Larimer county, and kills 131 persons, men, women, and children......Nov. 27, 1864 First national bank at Denver established......1865 Alexander Cummings, governor......October, 1865 Nathaniel P. Hill organizes the Boston and Colorado Smelting Company, and erects a furnace at Black Hawk, near Central City......1866 [This furnace (removed to Denver, 1879) reduces refractory ores and makes abandoned mines of value.] The State adopts for the courts the Illinois practice code. The ca
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Utah, (search)
t Lake City, March 4, and chose Brigham Young governor, March 12. First General Assembly convenes......July 2, 1849 Perpetual Emigration Fund Company organized at Salt Lake......Oct. 6, 1849 City of Provo founded......1849 First number of the Deseret News published at Salt Lake City......June 15, 1850 City of Ogden laid out......August, 1850 Territory of Utah created by act of Congress......Sept. 9, 1850 Salt Lake City incorporated......January, 1851 Coal discovered on Coal Creek at Cedar City......May, 1851 Capt. J. W. Gunnison massacred by the Pah-Utes while exploring Lake Sevier, with five out of ten companions......Oct. 26, 1853 Armed Mormons compel Associate-Judge W. W. Drummond, of the United States district court, who had become unpopular, to adjourn his court sine die......February, 1856 First hand-cart emigrants reach Great Salt Lake on foot from Iowa......Sept. 26, 1856 Judge Drummond resigns......March 30, 1857 Army of Utah, sent by Presi