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Immigration and American Expansion

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Walter Claude Orem papers

 Collection — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231038214]
Identifier: MSS 6
Abstract

This collection contains a scrapbook, correspondence, newspapers clippings, and biographical statements. The bulk of the materials relate to the the Salt Lake and Utah Railway Company that Orem founded.

Dates: 1914-1969
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

The origin of Mormonism and reminiscences of the Mormons in Illinois

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233634]
Identifier: MSS SC 89
Scope and Contents Prepared typescript of a series of ten articles written by J.H. Sherman which appeared in the Ithaca Daily Journal during April and May, 1886. The articles, decidedly anti-Mormon, tell of Joseph Smith's early life, the Solomon Spaulding manuscript from which Smith supposedly got the idea for the Book of Mormon, the organization of the Latter-day Saint Church, the settlement of the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, death of Joseph Smith, mob violence in Illinois, expulsion of the Mormons from...
Dates: 1886
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Jennifer Curtis Orten papers on Edwin M. Curtis

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8220
Abstract

Photograph and family group record of Edwin Curtis, circa 1860 and 2008.

Dates: approximately 1860-2008
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Hyrum Otterstrom and his help to settle Cleveland

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233650917]
Identifier: MSS 8338
Scope and Contents

Contents contain two typed pages of a phonetically-spelled story about the life of Hyrum Otterstrom, with handwritten corrections. Dated approximately 1950.

Dates: approximately 1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Our Grandfather's family : William Felshaw's family

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244763]
Identifier: MSS SC 584
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographical sketch which tells of his work on the Kirtland and Nauvoo Temples and of his involvement in early Fillmore, Utah. Also includes genealogical data and a letter from the donor.

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Overland diary to the Pacific

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308204]
Identifier: MSS SC 1028
Scope and Contents

Incomplete, handwritten account of an overland passage to California by an unknown author. The diary begins 219 miles east of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and documents the wagon journey to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, along the Oregon Trail. Described are landscape, wildlife, wagon train procedures, and Mormon settlements.

Dates: 1849
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

An overland journey from San Francisco to New York by way of the Salt Lake City

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2217
Scope and Contents Handwritten copy of an article published in the "Good Words and Sunday Magazine" on 1 June 1866 (vol. 7, pp. 380-393). After serving as a gunboat captain in British Columbia, Verney made the overland journey by stage coach from San Francisco, California to New York City in 1865. Verney was a well-educated traveler and his description of the overland route is extensive. Stage coach traveling was exhausting and Verney describes both the rough conditions and his fellow travelers. Trouble with...
Dates: 1866
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Overland trail diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1027
Scope and Contents Holograph diary, written in pencil by an unknown author. Item records the author's overland journey by ox team from Keokuk, Iowa to Oakland, California in 1860. The author's company included a handful of families and followed the Oregon Trail through Wyoming, then went through Utah and Nevada. Entries are brief and tell of starting times, distances traveled, and the condition of water and grass in the area. Some entries have been expanded in the back of the volume. A list of bills and...
Dates: 1860-1862
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Horace B. Owens papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244680]
Identifier: MSS SC 574
Scope and Contents

Typescripts and newspaper clippings (photocopies). The collection includes two biographical sketches of a Mormon pioneer, stonecutter and guardsman and a biographical sketch of his mother, Abigail B. Owens. Also includes a letter from the donor.

Dates: Undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John Pack letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233055]
Identifier: MSS SC 67
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten and signed letters dated 1847, addressed to family members, describing difficulties of the journey to Salt Lake City, Utah and Pack's associations with Mormon Church leaders Brigham Young and Heber Chase Kimball.

Dates: approximately 1847
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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