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Andrew Amundsen journal
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 786
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of typescript. Author describes the trip from the Lehi, Utah, area in company with his fellow missionaries to Moencopi, Arizona, where the group farmed, lived among the Indians, learned their language, and taught them about the Mormon Church. Amundsen also records his impressions of the Indians as a people and gives a day-by-day account of the Mormons' relations with them, as well as providing descriptions of various sites the group explored for potential settlement by Mormon...
Dates:
1873
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
George H. Carver diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 524
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of handwritten diaries. The collection consists of two diaries. The first was kept from 1879 to 1880 while Carver was serving in the Southern States. The second was kept from 1898 to 1899 while Carter was working in the Northwestern States. Also included is an account of Carter's interview with a female servant of the infamous John D. Lee, who was associated with the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857.
Dates:
1879-1899
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Geroge Washington Hickerson correspondence and family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 840
Scope and Contents
Handwritten correspondence largely to and from family members. Also included are biographies and a genealogy of Hickerson family members. Hickerson lived much of his life in Davis County, Utah. Some of the letters were written by Hickerson while serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Illinois. Several of the letters were written by Hickerson's son, Isaac Hickerson, when he was in California and in Carson City, Nevada. Among the items is a letter from...
Dates:
1852-1932
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Henry Solomon's diary of the Arizona mission
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 790
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of typescript. Discusses in detail the daily life of Mormon missionaries among the Indians on the Arizona frontier and the problems with the Indians that eventually forced the missionaries to withdraw to Kanab, Utah, in 1874. Some personal and family matters are also covered, including divorce from one of the author's plural wives. Excerpts from other records of Solomon's are included at the end of the record to cover gaps in the main diary. Notes by the compiler, P. T. Reilly, are...
Dates:
1873-1874
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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