Manuscript of book prior to publication. Presents the struggle of Utah for statehood, including all aspects and conditions relative to the practice of plural marriage and the issue of the "Woodruff Manifesto".

Papers about Horsley and Burt family members, including many documents related to the early Mormon church.

Contains personal papers of Julian William Cummings papers. Includes documents of his second wife, such as Relief Society newsletters and her own correspondence. Also includes his own collected religious material, like scriptures and recorded statements by religious people. Contains a newspaper article on his life, scrapbooks with photographs from his youth into his adulthood, and other articles. Dated 1900-2007.