[Born to Conserve]

The land was federal territory before it was federal land. It was never state land.

[deport]

The land was federal territory before it was federal land. It was never state land.

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Yep that land was owned/controlled by Mexico until 1848 when it was won by the
United States in the Mexican War. In the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico
had to give what is now the American West (including Utah) to the United States. It
took until 1896 for Utah to become a state.