Uintah

The Uinta Basin lies south of the high Uinta Mountains, among the valleys and plateaus of the Green River country. Ute groups known as the Uinta-ats lived in the mountains and around the Strawberry River. Their homeland offered hunting, fishing and gathering places used by families moving through the seasons. In the early nineteenth century, the beaver trade drew outsiders into the basin, and trading posts appeared along rivers including the Uinta, Duchesne and Green.