---
title: History of Utah, 1540-1886
description: 1889 history of Utah from Spanish exploration to 1886 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, volume 26 of his Works, published in San Francisco by The History Company. Twenty-eight chapters, including four on Mormon origins, the westward migration, and territorial politics, with a list of authorities and an index.
authors:
  - Bancroft, Hubert Howe
collections:
  - history
tags:
  - history
  - utah
  - 19th-century
  - territorial-history
published: "1889"
publisher: The History Company
publisher_place: San Francisco
edition: Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, vol. 26 (San Francisco, 1889)
language: en
type: book
reference: 'Hubert Howe Bancroft, *History of Utah, 1540-1886* (San Francisco: The History Company, 1889), "Title Page."'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/historyofutah15400banc
  identifier: historyofutah15400banc
  scan: Allen County Public Library copy of the 1889 History Company edition, Internet Archive
  transcription: OCR text of the 1889 scan, with line-break hyphens joined, running heads and page numbers removed, library stamps dropped and obvious scan errors corrected; printed pagination kept as page markers. Footnotes are kept as bracketed notes. The italic line under each chapter heading is the date range printed there. The list of authorities and the index follow the original order; the index is set as one paragraph per printed page. Not proofread against the page images.
curator_note: A general history of Utah by a non-Mormon historian, written with the cooperation of Mormon sources and dated 1889; its account of Mormon origins and doctrine reflects the sources available to him. Included as a historical source.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1889 US publication (San Francisco, The History Company; copyright notice of 1889); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/historyofutah15400banc
  publication_year: 1889
  note: Publication year of the edition used is 1889; any modern rights notice in the Internet Archive metadata does not apply to this 1889 text.
---

# Title Page

THE WORKS

HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT.

VOLUME XXVI.

HISTORY OF UTAH.

1540-1886.

SAN FRANCISCO : THE HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

1889

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1889, by

HUBERT H. BANCROFT, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

All Rights Reserved.