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You might say that Park City started with a feud between Mormon leader Brigham Young and Colonel Patrick E. Connor of the U.S. Army. Young led his Latter Day Saints away from religious persecution in the East to the remote Salt Lake City. To avoid his haven being invaded by gentile prospectors, he forbade his people to prospect for any ores except coal.

The U.S. Government feared Young might use the impending civil war as an excuse to declare the Territory of Deseret, an independent commonwealth, so Colonel Patrick E. Connor was sent to keep an eye on the situation. It didn't take the Colonel long to figure the best way to combat Young was to encourage prospecting. An ore strike would surely trigger the rush of non-mormon prospectors to solve his problems.

His dream was to fulfill President Lincoln's prophecy -- that "Utah becomes the treasure house of the nation."

He did very well indeed. In 1864, the first silver was discovered by Colonel Patrick E. Connor himself.

He was referred to as "the Father of Utah Mining." He retired many years later as a Major General of the U.S. Army.

Parts of the above text taken from a brief entitled "History of Park City" by Raye Carleson Ringholz