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Legal proceedings on Brigham Young estate

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1267
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Incomplete printed legal proceedings on the estate of Brigham Young, conducted in 1879 in the Utah Territory.

Dates: 1879

Brigham Young letter

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1732
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Photocopy of a handwritten letter of acknowledgement by Brigham Young to the former governor of Minnesota, Alexander Ramsay.

Dates: 1853

Brigham Young letter

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2019
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a handwritten letter. The item is dated Sept. 14, 1857 and is addressed to "Major McCullogh" and Lewis Brunson (1831-1888). Brunson was the bishop in Fillmore, Utah for the Mormon Church. Young states that preparations are to be made to deal with the advancing federal troops which were part of the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858. He also outlines the nature of the defense of Utah. In resistance the Utahns would "desolate the Territory" and "waylay our enemies." Young also admonishes...
Dates: 1857

Brigham Young letter to James Pollock

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 20
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Handwritten and signed letter, dated 24 June 1856, and addressed to James Pollock, governor of Idaho. Young thanks Pollock for a copy of the laws of Idaho.

Dates: 1856 June 24

Governor Brigham Young proclamation

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 107
Abstract The folder contains a photograph of a printed broadside and a photonegative of the item. Young writes to the "Citizens of Utah" and warns them that an "armed, mercenary mob" is marching against them in 1857. He outlines the Mormons' grievances against the federal government and states that they are being unjustly persecuted. He forbids all armed forces from coming into Utah "under any pretence whatever," orders that the forces of the territory be ready to march "at a moment's notice" to...
Dates: 1857