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Two journals kept by John Jay Thomas, both of a Excelsior Diary brand. The first one records April to August of 1906, in Fish Springs, Utah. John would have been about 13 years old at this time. The second journal has some entries for the year 1915. He records many details about work on his father’s ranch in Fish Springs. He would have been about twenty-two years old at this time.

Scope and Contents note Sixteen journals John Jones Thomas kept while living on his ranch in Fish Springs, Utah. They span the years 1900-1915, one for each year. John mentions his neighbors, the Karren’s, the Kearney’s from Deer Creek, his sons Jay and Jerome, his wife, and a lot of day his day-to-day ranching life, such as hauling hay and slaughtering of cattle. His journals are mostly an Excelsior Diary brand, which was manufactured with printed pages at the front displaying information about the calendar year,...

Abstract

Nineteen (19) diaries belonging to John Jones and John Jay Thomas, residents of Fish Springs, Utah, spanning the years 1900-1915.