Editing South Jordan, Utah (section)

===Pre-European===
The first known inhabitants were members of the [[Archaic period in North America|Desert Archaic Culture]] who were nomadic hunter-gatherers.  From 400 A.D. to around 1350 A.D., the [[Fremont culture|Fremont people]] settled into villages and farmed corn and squash.<ref>{{citation |first= David B. |last= Madsen |contribution-url= http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/f/FREMONT_THE.html |contribution= The Fremont |editor-last= Powell |editor-first= Allan Kent |year= 1994 |title= Utah History Encyclopedia |location= Salt Lake City, Utah |publisher= [[University of Utah Press]] |isbn= 0874804256 |oclc= 30473917 |access-date= 2013-10-31 |archive-date= 2013-11-01 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131101225340/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/f/FREMONT_THE.html |url-status= dead}}</ref>  Changes in climatic conditions to a cooler, drier period and the movement into the area of ancestors of the [[Ute Tribe|Ute]], [[Southern Paiute|Paiute]], and [[Shoshone]], led to the disappearance of the Fremont people.<ref>{{Harvnb|Madsen|2002|pp=13–14}}</ref>  When European settlers arrived, there were no permanent [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] settlements in the Salt Lake Valley, but the area bordered several tribes – the territory of the [[Northwestern Shoshone]] to the north,<ref>{{Harvnb|Madsen|1985|pp=6–7}}</ref> the Timpanogots band of the Utes to the south in [[Utah Valley]],<ref>{{Harvnb|Janetski|1991|pp=32–33}}</ref> and the [[Goshute]]s to the west in [[Tooele, Utah|Tooele]] Valley.<ref>{{Harvnb|Cuch|2000|p=75}}</ref>

The only recorded trapper to lead a party through the area was [[Étienne Provost]], a [[French Canadian]].  In October 1824, Provost's party was lured into an Indian camp somewhere along the Jordan River north of Utah Lake.  The people responsible for the attack were planning revenge against Provost's party for an earlier unexplained incident involving other trappers.  Provost escaped, but his men were caught off-guard and fifteen of them were killed.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Alter |first=Cecil |title=Journal of W.A. Ferris 1830–1835 |journal=Utah Historical Quarterly |volume=9 |year=1941 |pages=105–106|doi=10.2307/45057569 |jstor=45057569 }}</ref>