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- Utah women won the right to vote in 1870. The U.S. Congress took the right away in 1887, but granted it again in 1896. A Utah woman was the first woman in the United States to cast a vote in a municipal (local) election.
- Butch Cassidy, one of America’s most famous outlaws, was born in Beaver and escaped capture for years by hiding in Utah’s rugged canyons and mountains.
- Utah has living bristlecone pines that are more than four thousand years old.
- The University of Utah (established in 1850 as the University of Deseret) is the oldest university west of the Missouri River.
- The first transcontinental U.S. railroad was joined together at Promontory Summit on 10 May 1869.
- Brigham Young University has one of the largest late-Jurassic dinosaur collections in the world.
- During World War II, the U.S. government interned about eight thousand Japanese Americans at Topaz, a camp near Delta.
- Utah leads the nation in Jell-O gelatin consumption per person. And in 2001, Jell-O became the official state snack.
- The federal government owns 65 percent of Utah. Federally-owned land includes mountains, deserts, forests, rangeland, and national parks.
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