Utah -- History -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
William Greenwood papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 39
Scope and Contents
Contains twelve handwritten, signed letters which concern Greenwood's conversion to Mormonism in England, his immigration to the United States, activities in Nauvoo, Illinois, and the 1847 trek to Salt Lake City and American Fork, Utah. Also includes a bound autobiography (plus typescript) written between 1869 and 1884.
Dates:
1847-1884
History of Robert Gardner, Jr. / written by himself at St. George, Utah
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305424]
Identifier: MSS SC 793
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of typescript. Detailed account of frontier life in Canada; his family's conversion to Mormonism in the early 1840s; a trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, in June 1845; the trip across the plains to Utah in 1847; and life in pioneer Utah.Also includes account of the author's mission to Canada (1857-1858) and his subsequent recall because of the Utah War, along with his family's move to settle St. George, Utah. Ends with text of Gardner's patriarchal blessing, genealogical...
Dates:
1884
John Bates Warall letter
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312305]
Identifier: MSS SC 1392
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed letter written at Camp Floyd, Utah and addressed to Colonel Daniel Ruggles at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Warall gives a general report on the condition and activities of the camp which includes the establishment of musical bands, temperance societies, masonic lodges, and other organizations and events promoting morale among the soldiers.
Dates:
1859