In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the 2016 Draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.n the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the 2016 Draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.
In February of 1848 the two sides agreed on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Mexico was forced to sign over all of California, Utah and Nevada as well as parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming and Colorado in exchange for $15 million dollars and exoneration of about $3 million more in previous liability. The Rio Grande was established as the border of Texas.
Utah originates from an Apache Indian word (yuttahih), which means people of the mountains. Europeans thought the word refered to Indians living higher in the mountains than the Navajo, and the territory became known as the land of the Utes, and eventually Utah. Utah.he U.S. Mint's bicentennial commemorative quarter for Utah features a golden spike and two locomotives (representing the completion of the transcontinental railroad); and the caption Crossroads of the West. Utah became the 45th state in 1896.