Scope and Contents Contains holographs, photographs, and typescripts of journals, dated July 20 to December 27, 1861, and January 1, 1862 to December 31, 1863. The journals describe Ajax's activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church in England and Wales and include some newspaper clippings, part of which are from the Udgorn Seion, the Mormon publication in Wales. The clippings include British Mormon emigration statistics from 1841-1861. Ajax immigrated to the United States in 1862. Detailed diary entries...

Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries. Bunting writes about his service as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1857 to 1858 and his immigration to Utah in 1858. Bunting describes his preparation for the overland journey, which began at Florence, Nebraska, and the basic geography of the route. He also mentions meeting Colonel Thomas Kane. The diaries also describe Bunting's activities in Salt Lake City, Utah, his service in the Black Hawk War in 1866, his move to Kanab, Utah,...

Scope and Contents Collection includes a scrapbook owned and created by Norma Hancey Skabelund that documents the family's travels on an "L.D.S. Sociables Tour," that took them through Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, New York, Washington, D.C., Colorado, and Nebraska, stopping at various historical sites of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The scrapbook includes a souvenir travel album with recorded thoughts in the album by Norma, and a tour booklet. Collection also includes a Zion's Boys & Girls...