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Oliver Boardman Huntington autobiography

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Identifier: MSS SC 2219
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Handwritten unsigned, autobiographical account believed to have been written by Huntington. The author writes of being called by Brigham Young and Daniel H. Wells to go with an expedition to Carson Valley and tell the Mormons there to return to Utah to meet the United States army, known as "Johnston's Army" in 1857. Huntington gives and account of this expedition and mentions those who participated in it.

Dates: approximately 1880
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Oliver Boardman Huntington autobiography

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