Sentence:  In 1849 the Mormons organized a "free and independent" government and erected the "State of <WSD>Deseret</WSD>," with Brigham Young as its head. But the very next year Congress deliberately snubbed it and created the "Territory of Utah" out of the same accumulation of mountains, sage-brush, alkali and general desolation, -- but made Brigham Governor of it. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A state, proposed in 1849 and never recognized, which would have included most of Utah and Nevada and parts of other states.