Orley Dwight Bliss autobiography and diary
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography and diary. Account is retrospective until 1864, when Bliss writes short daily entries about his journey from Salt Lake City to Nebraska by ox team to help gather the poor to Utah. On the return trip to Utah, Bliss describes weather conditions, daily camping locations and mileage, encounters with Indian tribes, and more than twenty deaths from cholera. Bliss immigrated to Utah at age 8 and participated in the Utah War. Several pages of family genealogy are included at the end of the diary.
Dates
- 1864-1865
Creator
- Bliss, Orley Dwight, 1839-1930 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Microfilm copy is open without restriction. Access to original materials with permission from the supervisor of reference services. Typescript is open without restriction.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Autobiography and diary must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical / Historical
Mormon pioneer, farmer, and resident of southern Utah.
Extent
3 folders (0.3 linear ft.) : (Mss., typescript and photocopy)
Language of Materials
English
Appraisal
19th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts.
- Autobiographies
- Bliss, Orley Dwight, 1839-1930
- Diaries
- Immigration and American Expansion
- Latter Day Saint pioneers -- History
- Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History
- Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Toquerville -- History
- Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History
- Overland journeys to the Pacific
- Pioneers
- Toquerville (Utah) -- History
- Utah Expedition (1857-1858)
- Title
- Register of Orley Dwight Bliss autobiography and diary
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Rose Frank
- Date
- 23 May 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States