Mormon founder Joseph Smith was killed in 1844, an...  ...rr out to survey it.When David H. Burr, the first Surveyor General of Utah Territory, showed up in Salt Lake...  ...d his mail. They stole livestock, beat one of his surveyors severely, and incited the Native Americans agains...  ...ely, and incited the N...

Between 1816 and 1836, the border between Missouri and Iowa was surveyed several times, because the first survey was done so badly, and there were four possible borders, all slightly different. The nine-mile-wide band of...