Salt Lake City
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- Names
Salt Lake City
Great Salt Lake City
City of the Saints
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located in N central Utah on Jordan River near SE end of Great Salt Lake; Mormon Church influenced social, political, economic & cultural life of region; result was 100 years of hostility from non-Mormons & USA government starting with Utah War 1857-1858.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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- Died
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