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Oral history interviews with Grant L. and Josephine Harris Bayles on 7 and 11 July 1971. The interviews were conducted by Mary Risher and Louise Lyne for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program.

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Contains correspondence between Brigham Young and various Native American leaders, including those from the Ute, Shoshone, and Paiute tribes. The letters discuss trade and relations between Indians and white settlers in Utah. Materials date between 1853 and 1858.

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This collection consists of the photocopied, personal life history of Ellen A. Draper. In her biography she accounts for the Mormon community led by President Brigham Young, as well as for early pioneer life with notes on farming and encounters with Native Americans.

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Oral history interviews with Douglas and Florence Galbraith, conducted by Kim Stewart, John Abraham, and Betty Mitson on 28 and 30 June 1971 for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton.

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The History of Salina gives an account of the settlement and growth of Salina, Utah. It covers events from 1864-1929.

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Oral history interview with William Riley Hurst, conducted by James DeMar Redd for the Utah State Historical Society and the University of California, Fullerton Oral History Program on 14 September 1971.

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Oral history interview with Tom Jones on 11 and 12 July, 1972, conducted by Daniel Kelly for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program.

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Oral history interview with Wilbur Laws on 11 July 1972, conducted by Deborah Ann Fellbaum for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program.

Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is a ten-page autobiography of Commodore Perry Liston. Also included is an index to the item. Liston describes how he was born in Ohio in 1821 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in 1851. He came to Utah in 1852 and moved to Cedar City. He was present at Mountain Meadows in 1857 when the Fancher Train was destroyed. He thought "there were some good people among them, consequently I did oppose Killing...

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Oral history interviews with Albert R. and Gladys Perkins Lyman, conducted by Charles Peterson, Gary Shumway and Stanley Bronson on 4 February 1970 and 23 August 1973 for the Utah State Historical Society and the California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program.