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Bilings, William Wallace

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William Wallace Bilings diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331024]
Identifier: MSS SC 3211
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten diary. Bilings kept this diary while migrating to Utah to be with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Bilings writes about his journey from July to September of 1864. He describes the traveling conditions, the weather, hardships, camp grounds, daily mileage, encounters with Indians, and deaths caused by illness. Bilings [Billings] later settled in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1864
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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