Coronado may have been the first.
because no european explore went to utah.
why did people first come to utah
They came from Portugal.
Early white explorers would be hired by the country they come from to explore. Spain, Britain, France would sponsor those people.
The Quakers.
why
The Viking explorers, then British explorers and settlers. Some people think that the first Native Anmerican Algonquin ancestors to come to the east Coast in 11,000 BC, like the Beothuk, may have been Caucasian.
Portuguese
In the late 1400s.
The Spanish in 1540.
Ariana Grande
Spanish