Northwestern States -- History
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Alma Butler diaries
Handwritten diaries. Butler writes about his daily activities while serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the new Northwestern States.
James Ephraim Peterson diary
Photocopies of a handwritten diary and a letter to Peterson from his wife. Peterson writes about the work he was involved in while in the Northwestern States and gives details of many of his daily experiences.
Claude L. White papers
Correspondence, diaries, a play script, and a missionary tracting book. The materials relate to White's activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church in the Northwestern States Mission from 1915 to 1917. The diaries are for the years from 1915 to 1916 and for 1963. Most of the correspondence are between White and family members, but some are also with Melvin J. Ballard, a Mormon official who became an apostle in 1919.