Winter Quarters (Neb.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Letters received by William R. Foster
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230243880]
Identifier: MSS SC 603
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed letters received by Foster. The items were sent by friends and family members and describe conditions in Winter Quarters, Nebraska, and in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The materials also make reference to Mormons in those places.
Dates:
1854-1855
The handcart companies of 1856 and Arza Erastus Hinkley
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315589]
Identifier: MSS SC 1770
Scope and Contents
Softbound typescript of an account of the rescue of the Martin Handcart Company, taken from journals and oral family histories.
Dates:
1980
Joseph Holbrook papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 486
Scope and Contents
Holograph journal which contains genealogical data, patriarchal blessings of relatives, details of Mormon difficulties in Missouri, temporary pioneer settlements, crossing the plains and life in Utah, 1848-1871. Also includes receipts, certificates of religious, political and military offices, rules for the Utah constitutional convention, a divorce certificate and memos.
Dates:
1806-1871
Remembering Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs writings of the Mormon pioneers at the Missouri River
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329606]
Identifier: MSS SC 2964
Scope and Contents
Compilation by Karen and Paul Larsen, of excerpts from diaries and reminiscences of Latter-day Saints who resided in the Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs area between about 1846 and 1852. Includes writings of Job Taylor Smith, Eliza Maria Patridge Lyman, Helen Mar Kimball Whitney, Aroet Lucius Hale, Anna Clark Hale, Jane Snyder Richards, Joseph Fielding, Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith, Lucy Meserve Smith, Richard Ballantyne, Sarah Studevant Leavitt, Alfred Boaz Lambson, Allen Joseph Stout,...
Dates:
1998