Salt Lake County Mountain Ranges

Wasatch Mountain Range

  

Oquirrh Mountain Range

The Wasatch mountain range "stretches approximately 160 miles from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States. It is generally considered the western edge of the greater Rocky Mountains, and the eastern edge of the Great Basin region" (Wikipedia).  When I visit my grandma and grandpa's house in Springville, Utah I like to look at the Wasatch Mountains and go sledding on them in the winter.

The Oquirrh Mountain Range is a mountain range that "runs north-south for approximately 30 miles to form the west side of Utah's Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley. The range runs from northwest Utah County–central, east Tooele County, and ends north at the south shore of the Great Salt Lake" (Wikipedia).  When I was young and lived in Provo, Utah I could see this mountain range from my parents bedroom window.

First Native Settlers

"Thousands of years before the arrival of European explorers, the Anasazi/Ancestral Pueblo and the Fremont tribes lived in what is now known as Utah. These Native American tribes are subgroups of the Ute-Aztec Native American ethnicity, and were sedentary. The Anasazi built their homes through excavations in mountains, and the Fremont built houses of straw before disappearing from the region around the 15th century.
Another group of Native Americans, the Navajo, settled in the region around the 18th century. In the mid-18th century, other Uto-Aztecan tribes, including the Goshute, the Paiute, the Shoshone, and the Ute people, also settled in the region. These five groups were present when the first European explorers arrived" (Wikipedia).

An interesting fact about the Navajo tribe is that their homes were very simple homes, just a small shelter of wooden sticks, mud, and tree bark. These homes were known as hogans, and their doors faced the east to be sure the sun would shine in (Indians.org).