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Steamboats -- United States -- History

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Peter Mastin Wentz diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342526]
Identifier: MSS 802
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a diary. Wentz left Binghamton, New York, in 1853. He travelled to Dunkirk, New York, and then to Ashley, Indiana. He took steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1854 and described the buildings in Nauvoo, Illinois. He later settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1855. He migrated to Utah the same year.

Dates: 1853-1855
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Peter Mastin Wentz diary

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