[Doctor Stochastic]

Which inspired Dmitri Tomkin to write "In The Steppes Of Central Utah"?

[rustbucket]

No, actually it was Alexander Borodin, the renown Mormon musical chemist, who published "The Thirty Nine Steps of Central Asian Sequence Stratigraphy".

[RightWingAtheist]

Actually, it was Borodin who wrote "In the Steppes of Central Asia" (this is the song you're referring to, right?) I wouldn't be surprised if Tiomkin DID write a song called "In the Steppes of Central Utah", though. he wrote many great scores for many great Westerns.