Immigration and American Expansion
Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:
Horton David Haight papers
Collection includes photocopies of letters and certificates by Horton David Haight. The materials discuss his family life, his activities in southern Utah and Arizona on behalf of the Church, and his participation in the Nauvoo Legion.
Hammond family biographies and diary
George P. Hammond papers
Primary source materials relating to the New Southwest part of the United States including the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. Also included are materials on Mexico. The materials are in English and Spanish, and many relate to the settlement of the area by people of European descent and to the Indians.
The handcart companies of 1856 and Arza Erastus Hinkley
Softbound typescript of an account of the rescue of the Martin Handcart Company, taken from journals and oral family histories.
Hansen and Broberg family biographies and family records
Biography : Christian Hansen
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Christian Hansen was born in 1820 in Denmark. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Saints and migrated to Utah in 1861. He settled in American Fork and had many adventures in that town.
Biography of Inger Mortensen Hansen
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Inger Mortensen Hansen was born in Denmark in 1826. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1861. He came by handcart to Utah and went to Genoa where he lived in a dugout on the side of a hill. He later settled in American Fork, Utah.
Life history of Martin Hansen
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Hansen migrated to Utah in 1857 by handcart. He also wrote about the problems of hunger and finding food from 1857 to 1859 when he was in Utah. He settled in American Fork, Utah.
Peter O. Hansen diary
Typescript copy of a first person account of overland travel from Iowa to Utah during spring and summer, 1849 with the Howard Egan Company of Wagons.
Adelia H. Hardin papers
Handwritten letters and miscellaneous papers. The materials relate to the Patty and Hardin families and include a sixteen-page letter by J. R. Hardin telling about his journey from Missouri to Salt Lake City, Utah. Some of the materials relate to the American Civil War. Many of the items were written in California and Missouri.