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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions letter received
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2197
Scope and Contents
Materials include a five page unsigned handwritten letter dated October 2, 1833, to Reverend D. Green, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, from the chairman of a committee in Jacksonville, Illinois, requesting the Board's aid in outfitting a missionary group to the "Indians West of the Rocky Mountains." This letter is accompanied by a two page manuscript copy of a petition titled "Incipient measures in relation to the establishment of a mission," with...
Dates:
1833
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Eve Ball manuscripts and photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7740
Scope and Contents
Collection contains revised manuscripts of some book chapters written by Eve Ball, and photographs that support her research of Native Americans.
Dates:
1966
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Henry Ballard diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 998
Scope and Contents
Two typescripts of the Ballard diary. They vary in small details and in the nature of the added materials found at the back. Ballard was converted to Mormonism in England. He arrived in Utah in 1852, was active in the Utah War of 1857-8, and settled in Logan, Utah in 1859.
He was a bishop for the Mormon Church, participated in many of the activities of that faith, and was sentenced to two months in the Utah penitentiary for polygamy. He also tells about troubles with the Indians of the Cache...
Dates:
1852-1905
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Margaret McNeil Ballard autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 484
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Ballard writes about her early life in Scotland as a Mormon, her migration to the United States in 1856 and her subsequent migration to Utah in 1859, and her life as a polygamous wife in Logan, Utah. Ballard also tells about encounters with Indians while coming to Utah, and when she was living in Logan.
Dates:
1910
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Abner Blackburn diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 43
Scope and Contents
Typescript of diary which gives accounts of the Mormon experiences in Missouri, frontier and pioneer life, Indian customs and warfare, and gold-digging during the California gold rush of 1849.
Dates:
1827-1851
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David Chamberlin autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1917
Scope and Contents
One handwritten autobiography by Chamberlin, one handwritten history of the early discoveries and settlement of California condensed from various authors, and miscellaneous items. Chamberlin talks about his youth, his various travels, and his encounters with Native Americans.
Dates:
1853-1889
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Clarke letter to J. M. Curtis
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 681
Scope and Contents
Handwritten letter, signed by surname only, and addressed to J. M. Curtis, Indian Interpreter, Denver. It reports on a skirmish in 1873 between eighteen Ute Indians and a group of Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians at Deer Trail, Colorado.
Dates:
1873
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Gordon C. Cone diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 661
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary of Cone's overland journey by ox team from Waukesha, Wisconsin to California in 1849. Cone is a descriptive writer and proud to record "only facts." Diary describes traveling conditions, encounters with Indians, cholera outbreaks, fellow travelers, and government assistance at the end of the trail. Cone also spent time in Salt Lake City and wrote about his unfavorable impressions. After arriving at California, Cone made several trips to Sacramento. Life in California was...
Dates:
1849-1850
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Jefferson Cook diary and biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 150
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary which describes Cook's journey overland from the Missouri River to California. Also describes the author's return by sea to New York, including a crossing by mule of the Isthmus of Panama. Also includes 4 pages of biographical information concerning Cook written in 1957 by Mary F. Owensby.
Dates:
1850-1852(bulk), 1850-1957 (inclusive)
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Crossing the plains with ox teams in 1862
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2203
Scope and Contents
Typescript with handwritten corrections and photocopies of the item. Boquist writes of her journey from Mt. Sterling, Van Buren Co., Iowa to California in 1862. She travelled on the Oregon and California trails staying three days in Salt Lake City, Utah, "a beautiful little city." The local inhabitants came to buy what they had to sell at higher cost than the items were worth, and they were warned by a Mormon widow against the tyrannical rule of Brigham Young saying many "were kept there...
Dates:
approximately 1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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