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Robert Lang Campbell journal
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 496
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains Campbell's original handwritten journal where he describes his missionary experiences in Scotland; emigration to Nauvoo, Illinois; experiences traveling to Utah as a Mormon pioneer; and duties as a Mormon Church leader. Dated 1843-1848. Campbell also added to the end of his journal handwritten transcriptions of his missionary certificate, his appointment to the Glasgow Conference, and a letter to the Church in Wales from Franklin D. Richards. Dated...
Dates:
approximately 1843-1941; Majority of material found within 1843-1850
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ezekiel W. Headley diary
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 163
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary with photocopies. Headley made the overland journey from Cincinnati, Ohio to California in 1849. Brief, frequent entries focus on distances traveled and camping locations. Headley also writes about the large number of deaths in his company and the many graves which he passed. Lists of the amount of gold dust which he dug in California, as well as expenses, are located in the second half of the diary. A copy of a poem and letter are located at the end.
Dates:
1852
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Emma James Johnson autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 323
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography with a typescript of the item. The history includes comments by John's daughter, Laletas Dixon. As a young woman Emma James migrated to Utah with the ill-fated Willie Handcart company. Emma describes how the decision was made to travel to Utah late in the season and gives many details on the nature of the journey and the tragedy which followed. She tells about the starvation, cold, hardships faced by her family, and the death of her father, William James...
Dates:
1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jesse Bigler Martin diaries
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 446
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries with a typed copy of one volume. Martin kept diaries apparently in three volumes. The second and third volumes covering the time from 1854 to 1857 are found with the collection. A typed copy of the first diary covering the years from 1853 to 1854 is also included. Martin writes about his work as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England. He returned to the United States in 1857 and traveled by rail to Iowa City, Iowa. Martin writes in...
Dates:
1853-1857
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John H. Purdy correspondence to James L. Purdy
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 862
Scope and Contents
Handwritten correspondence from John Purdy to his brother, James, about his overland journey by ox team from Columbus, Ohio, to California in 1849. Purdy is an intelligent and detailed writer. He describes various companies' rules and regulations and his attempts to join a suitable group traveling to California. Purdy's company encountered Native Americans and two of his party were killed. He also mentions his visit to Salt Lake City and how the company made their own road to Los Angeles,...
Dates:
1849-1851
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Tour to California overland
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 164
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary by an unknown person. The item tells of the author's overland journey with the Anknin Company from St. Joseph, Missouri to Fort Kearny, Nebraska in 1849 by mule train. The author gives detailed information about the rigors of camp life, and entries in general are long and descriptive. The Anknin Company explored an abandoned Pawnee village and was also visited by a war party of 300 Dakota Indians, with whom they traded food for moccasins and buffalo robes.
Dates:
1849
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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