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Overland Journeys to the Western United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 207 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Persis Moore Sweat McKee

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338565]
Identifier: MSS 2811
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Persis Moore Sweat was born in 1820 in Maine. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Thomas McKee in 1841, and migrated to Utah in 1853. She lived in Spanish Fork, Utah. When she died, she had 245 descendants, including 8 children.

Dates: approximately 1958
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography of Persis Moore Sweat McKee

Biography of Rachel Ellen Peet Mayne

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338573]
Identifier: MSS 2810
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Rachel Ellen Peet was born in 1858. Her parents were converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England, and they settled in American Fork, Utah. She married Thomas Mayne, had seven children, and lived in Bingham, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1958
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography of Rachel Ellen Peet Mayne

Biography of Samuel Miles the son of Samuel and Prudence Marks

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7599
Scope and Contents Manuscript autobiography, labeled by the author as a biography, with thirty-two pages of a handwritten life story by Samuel Miles. The story includes a life summary from 1826 to 1851, and short yearly summaries for each year between 1852 and 1881. The text includes information that is particularly familial and spiritual, but often references broader historical events that contextualize his life. He mentions several events in Latter-day Saintn history including the violence in Missouri, his...
Dates: approximately 1852-1881
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography of Samuel Miles the son of Samuel and Prudence Marks

Biography of Samuel Miles the son of Samuel and Prudence Marks

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS7599
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Sarah Amelia Britton Wootton

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341809]
Identifier: MSS 2576
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Sarah Amelia Britton was born in 1844 in England, and her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1850 and later settled in American Fork. She died in 1922.

Dates: approximately 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography of Sarah Amelia Britton Wootton

Edwin R. Bird papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2628
Scope and Contents

Collection includes a diary, correspondence, and poetry written by Bird between 1851 and 1860. Includes information on his overland migration to California and his activities after his arrival.

Dates: 1851-1860
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Edwin R. Bird papers

Hoffman Birney bibliography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230320902]
Identifier: MSS SC 2237
Scope and Contents

Typewritten bibliography with handwritten notes. Also included are newspaper clippings relating to books and publications. The items relate to the American West.

Dates: 1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Hoffman Birney bibliography

Benjamin T. Blanchard autobiography

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236264]
Identifier: MSS SC 231
Scope and Contents

Notebook tells of Blanchard's conversion to the Mormon Church in Connecticut in 1844 and migration to Nauvoo, Illinois. From Nauvoo he joined the Mormon migration to Utah Valley and settled in Hobble Creek, Utah County, Utah. The notebook includes references to farming in the county, relationships with the Indians, and the Utah War.

Dates: approximately 1870
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Benjamin T. Blanchard autobiography

Brief history of Ole Christian Andreasen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337823]
Identifier: MSS 2753
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Ole Christian Andreasen was born in 1840 in Denmark and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He migrated to Utah in 1865 and married Christiana Madsen in 1877.

Dates: 1949
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brief history of Ole Christian Andreasen

A brief sketch of the pioneer life of Lois A. Smith Bushman

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305432]
Identifier: MSS SC 792
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typescript. Although intended to be a biographical sketch of Lois Bushman, manuscript includes a great deal of information about her husband, John, and the author as well. Covers the conversion of Lois's family to the Mormon Church in 1844; their trek across the plains to Utah; their subsequent move to establish Mormon settlements in eastern Arizona in 1876; and life on the Utah and Arizona frontier.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / A brief sketch of the pioneer life of Lois A. Smith Bushman

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