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  Eliza Roxey Snow diaries

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  Two diary volumes kept by Eliza R. Snow, primarily during her travels from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1846-1847. The first diary begins with Eliza's departure from Nauvoo with the family of Stephen Markham (Eliza lived in the Markhams' attic room for a time) in Heber Kimball's company. It traces their travels through Iowa and their time waiting out the winter weather at Winter Quarters. Eliza writes of the difficulties of the trip, particularly dissent among the traveling companions and their many illnesses and deaths. She thinly masks her intense loneliness ("Altho' so much alone, I feel no despondency," she wrote. "Surely happiness is not altogether the product of circumstances."). She initially tried to find support from Heber Kimball (she writes that she asked to be "number'd among his children...[and] from this time I call him father"), but ultimately found solace in religion and camaraderie with her sister-wives and other women in the company. Eliza also described her experiences driving a wagon, trading with the Pottawatomie tribe, and encounters with hostile Indians (she writes of the shooting of an Omaha Indian chief by a rival tribe in December 1846). The diary also contains a variety of poems and epitaphs, including "The Camp of Israel, A Song for Pioneers" (No.1, No.2, and No.3, also titled "Let Us Go"); "In All Things Rejoice," a song for the Camp of Israel; "A Journeying Song for the Camp of Israel, dedicated to Prest. Young & Lady;" "The Twelve, To Prest. B. Young;" and "To the Saints in Europe." (The pages with entries made between August 17, 1846, and October 28, 1846, are missing). The second diary volume resumes in June 1847, when Eliza left Iowa in the wagon of Robert Peirce, which was part of the Second Fifty headed by Bates Noble. The diary traces the company's travels across the plains and their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in the autumn of 1847. In Utah Eliza initially shared a cabin with Clara Decker Young and made caps to trade for other goods, and the diary recounts her experiences through September 1849. It also includes her poem "A Song of the Desart [sic]." Individuals mentioned in the diaries include Heber Kimball, Stephen Markham, Parley P. Pratt, Lorenzo Snow, Brigham Young, and Mary Ann Angell Young.

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  A. Frank Randall Photographs of Apache Indians

  Visual Materials

  This disbound album contains 123 photographs taken by photographer A. Frank Randall between 1883 and 1888. The photographs have descriptive captions written by Randall, most identifying their subjects. The images include studio and field photographs of Apache Indians taken during the United States military campaign to capture Apache renegades during the Apache Wars. Notable portraits include those of A. Frank Randall, Geronimo, Naiche, and Nelson A. Miles. There are also some scenes of Indian agencies and camps in Arizona. The last part of the album ends with views in Southern California, including Rancho Camulos, scenes of Santa Barbara, missions, and San Diego. There are also views of Guaymas, Mexico. The majority of Randall's photographs are portraits of men, women, and children from various Apache subtribes in Arizona and New Mexico. Among these photographs are images of a fox tamer; a fiddler; a flutist; a well-dressed, possibly high-ranking Apache man; medicine men; young girls; mothers and their infant children; and Apache chiefs. Portraits of United States Army officers and scouts include Nelson A. Miles, Leonard Wood, Wilber E. Wilder, Roger Ames, Henry W. Lawton, William A. Thompson, Amos S. Kimball, John A. Dapray, Thomas J. Clay, Frank P. Bennett, Buffalo Jack, a female Indian scout, and Apache scouts. Randall also included photographs of Rancho Camulos, many of which show people dramatizing scenes from Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona. Antonio Franco Coronel appears in some scenes. Other images include views of Missions Santa Barbara and San Juan Capistrano, what may be Vasquez Creek and Tujunga Canyon near Los Angeles, and street scenes of Guaymas, Mexico. The first page of the album is a dedication written by Randall, saying: "This album is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Captain Emmet Crawford who offered his life as a sarafice [sic] to the Apache race, a brave and noble man, the idol of his friends. Murdered by Mexicans in Mexico January 11th 1886. A. Franklin Randall, artist." A newspaper cutout of Captain Crawford's portrait has been pasted on the dedication page. On the reverse side of the page, Randall wrote: "Presented to Claire W. Murphy. Christmas 1888. The Author [Randall]." Part of this presentation note includes a phrase written in Greek. Though presumably the photographs are all by Randall, research has shown some images may be the work of Ben Wittick. Item titles transcribed from A. Frank Randall's handwritten captions.

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