Overland Journeys to the Western United States
Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:
Biography of Persis Moore Sweat McKee
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.
Biography of Rachel Ellen Peet Mayne
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.
Biography of Samuel Miles the son of Samuel and Prudence Marks
Biography of Samuel Miles the son of Samuel and Prudence Marks
Biography of Sarah Amelia Britton Wootton
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.
Edwin R. Bird papers
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.
Hoffman Birney bibliography
Typewritten bibliography with handwritten notes. Also included are newspaper clippings relating to books and publications. The items relate to the American West.
Benjamin T. Blanchard autobiography
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.
Brief history of Ole Christian Andreasen
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.
A brief sketch of the pioneer life of Lois A. Smith Bushman
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.