The Dellenbaugh Papers Vol.1-7: Exploration and settlement records of the Mormon Church [microform]:

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  Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh correspondence

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  This collection consists of 32 letters between Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh and family and friends including letters from Irving Bacheller and Elwood P. Bonney. The letters from Bacheller are mainly personal with references to a screenplay. Bonney's letters include subjects on the Colorado River, John W. Powell, and the Grand Canyon. There is a manuscript by Maria Dellenbaugh McFarland titled, Graphic Account of the Emigration of the Dellenbaugh Family...1824-1827. In addition, there is an excerpt from B. [or R?] Young on the cause of death of three men from Powell's 1869 expedition.

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  Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh correspondence

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  This collection consists of 32 letters between Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh and family and friends including letters from Irving Bacheller and Elwood P. Bonney. The letters from Bacheller are mainly personal with references to a screenplay. Bonney's letters include subjects on the Colorado River, John W. Powell, and the Grand Canyon. There is a manuscript by Maria Dellenbaugh McFarland titled, Graphic Account of the Emigration of the Dellenbaugh Family...1824-1827. In addition, there is an excerpt from B. [or R?] Young on the cause of death of three men from Powell's 1869 expedition.

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  Early History of Joseph City, Arizona, in connection with the Mormon Settlement of the Little Colorado River Valley [microform] : after 1916

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  Microfilm typescript of the history of settlements near Joseph City, Arizona, also called the "Little Colorado Mission." The account begins with pre-Mormon (before 1876) history of the area, including Spanish exploration and its early annexation as part of New Mexico. The next section describes Mormon exploration of the area, the first permanent settlements, and the William C. Allen Company that founded Joseph City in 1876. It also includes notes on later arrivals to the settlement through the 1880s. The section on 1876 includes notes on the construction of dams, the raising of crops and the articles of agreement for the irrigation company at Allen's Camp, the importation of mills, and the raising of forts. The 1877 section includes notes on the abandonment of the Obed settlement due to unhealthy swamp conditions, and other settlements founded that year including Taylor, Woodruff, and Forest Dale. The 1878 notes describe names given to various camps, the organization of the Little Colorado Stake, the creation of schools, floods and agriculture, and the creation of the Eastern Arizona Stake of Zion (a division of the Little Colorado). Notes from 1879 include the creation of Apache County, while those from 1881 describe the abandonment of Brigham City, the coming of the railroad, and the establishment of the mail service. The account also describes other settlements in the Little Colorado Stake, including Moan Coppy-Tuba City, Pleasant Valley, Wilford, Heber, Tonto Basin (later Pine), Savoia, Silver Creek-Snowflake, and Eagley. At the end of the typescript are "Copies of Old Manuscripts," including "History of the Little Colorado Mission" probably written by F.G. Neilson, and the United Order Articles of Agreement for Allen's Camp, dated April 15, 1877.

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  Sketch of the life of Mary Minerva Dart [Judd] [microform]: c.1840-1881

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  Microfilm of Mary Minerva Dart Judd's autobiography, covering the years from approximately 1840-1865 (some brief notes and genealogical accounts continue into the 1880s). The account opens with reminiscences of Mary's childhood in New York and Connecticut, and with an account of her family's wagon travels to Council Bluffs in 1849 and to Utah in 1850. It recalls the Dart family's settlement in Parowan, where they had an encounter with Indian Chief Walkera (c.1808-1855), and Mary's marriage to Zadok Knapp Judd in 1852. Mary subsequently describes moving to Santa Clara in 1856, traveling near St. George, living in Harmony in 1857, and settling in Eagle Valley in 1865 (a genealogical note includes reference to the family's life in Kanab in the 1880s). Mary also writes of her father's mission to San Bernardino, of her cotton manufacturing, of the 1862 Santa Clara River flood, and of the death of George A. Smith, Jr. (1842-1860), who was apparently shot to death by a Navajo Indian. The account also references Indian children purchased by the Judds, including a boy named Lamoni who died while in their service, an unnamed girl who was purchased in 1858 and died in 1861, and a second girl named Nellie who was purchased in 1862 and in 1867 married a "wild Indian" and left to live with his family (she returned to the Mormon settlement as a washer woman). Also included is some genealogy and hymn lyrics.

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  Diaries of Bert Loper [microform]: 1893-1946

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  Microfilm of a photostat typescript of various materials related to Bert Loper. The reel begins with a letter from Loper to Brooks dated Oct. 28, 1946, and diary excerpts which describe his first foray in boating and four subsequent river trips. The first diary excerpt begins in 1893, and briefly covers Loper's return to Montezuma County and his discovery of boating while on the San Juan River. In the following section, he records his 1921 trip on the San Juan River as the boatman for a party from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) doing a preliminary survey for the Glen Canyon Dam. The trip, funded by the Southern California Edison Company, began near Bluff, Utah and ended at Lee's Ferry, Arizona. Loper describes the daily activities in camp and along the river, recording his travel through rapids and canyons. Loper also talks about the creation of Hole-in-the-Rock Trail and the Mormon settlement of Bluff, Utah. Following this diary is Loper's incomplete diary of a 1907 trip to prospect for gold on the Green and Colorado Rivers with Charles Silver Russell and Edwin Monett. The party successfully navigated their boats through the rapids of the Cataract Canyon Wilderness in Utah. The diary ends in December of 1907, when Loper was at Ticaboo, Utah. The next diary excerpt describes a 1922 trip, during which Loper was the head boatman on a survey by the USGS to amalgamate previous surveys done on the Green River from Green River, Wyoming to Green River, Utah. Funded by the Utah Power & Light Company, the trip also surveyed different dam sites. The final diary excerpt is from a 1939 trip on the Colorado River from Lee's Ferry to Lake Mead.

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  Letterbook of the St. George Stake [microform] : 1874-1887. Reel 1

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  Microfilm of a letterbook kept by James G. Bleak at St. George, Utah, from 1874-1887. The first reel includes letters dated 1874-October 1881, while the second reel dates from October 1881 through 1887. Included throughout are references to operations in the St. George Stake, including the procurement of supplies, descriptions of land in Washington County, records of ordinance work, records of quarterly stake conferences, and work on the St. George Temple. The St. George United Order is also referenced throughout, including a letter urging conciliation over minor disagreements as per "the interests and spirit of the United Order" (May 6, 1874). Individual letters discuss Indian affairs (see for examples letters dated March 26, 1874, April 6, 1874, and April 14, 1874), including a letter from Jacob Hamblin (Indian agent in Kane County) following the death of several Navajos in which he asks that their goods be returned to their relatives (March 20, 1874) and a letter signed by Brigham Young, George A. Smith, and Erastus Snow noting that the "Indians have expressed a repugnance at being baptized in water that is not clear" (February 9, 1875). Other letters describe plans for an expedition from Harmony and Kanarra to Black Rock Canyon to work on a "Hurricane Edge" (May 1874), the completion of a wagon road to Mt. Trumbull (May 5, 1874), relations with local Lamonites (1875), letters from Brigham Young to his sons Ernest J. Young, who was serving on a mission to England (February 4, 1875), and Willard Young, a cadet at West Point (February 6, 1875), the return of St. George brethren from the Manti Temple (October 27, 1877), a list of articles inherited from the estate of Brigham Young (February 23, 1878), a comparative statistical statement of the Salt Lake and St. George Stakes (1879, p. 352), a biography of Richard Moore Bleak (p.250), a report on the exploration of the head waters of the Cottonwood in 1878 (p.295), an history of the establishment of the St. George Ward (p.425), a letter from John D. McAllister to John Taylor asking for the definition of adultery and whether offenders should be excommunicated after the first offense ( February 13, 1882), and an account of the funeral service of Artisima Beaman Snow 1882 (p.701). Authors of the letters include Brigham Young, George A. Smith, John W. Young, Robert Gardiner (President of the United Order of St. George), James Nixon, and John D. McAllister. Addressees include Jacob Hamblin, Thales Haskell, Ammon Tenney, William Snow, Wilson D. Pace, Edward Bunker, Edward Hunter, Williard and Ernest Young, Thomas Judd, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, George Q. Cannon, Franklin D. Richards, and a "Moqueak [Indian leader] and his men" (March 24, 1874).

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