Early history of Cache County

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  An inventory of historical resource materials on microfilm for Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho

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  Bibliographical inventory of manuscripts microfilmed for the writing of the book "The History of a Valley, Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho" (1956), edited by Joel E. Ricks and Everett L. Cooley. Each entry includes information about the author of the material, its date, and the size of each item, as well as notes on its provenance, as assembled by Samuel George Ellsworth. Most of the microfilmed items are public records from Cache County, as well as records from Franklin County and Preston, Idaho, and Logan, Hyrum, Smithfield, Richmond, and Wellsville, Utah. Also listed are personal items such as diaries, photographs, and scrapbooks. Several theses and dissertations related Utah and Mormon history are also included. The majority of the material was originally microfilmed between November 1955 and February 1956 in Logan, Utah, and Preston, Idaho. Material was later added at Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah.

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  James D. Hutton drawings

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  The drawings, which artist James D. Hutton prepared while with U.S. Army Captain W. F. Raynolds' expedition of the Yellowstone River Valley in 1859-1860, include landscape scenes throughout Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming, including Bear Butte, the Bighorn River and Mountain Range, the Little Missouri River, the Powder River, the Teton Range, the Wind River, and various locations in the Yellowstone River Valley. There is one drawing not from the expedition, and it is of Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica. It was probably drawn in 1847, and has on its verso: "W R Hutton" and a New York City address. Also included is a photostat of a daguerreotype of James D. Hutton (FAC 1402).

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  James D. Hutton drawings

  Manuscripts

  The drawings, which artist James D. Hutton prepared while with U.S. Army Captain W. F. Raynolds' expedition of the Yellowstone River Valley in 1859-1860, include landscape scenes throughout Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming, including Bear Butte, the Bighorn River and Mountain Range, the Little Missouri River, the Powder River, the Teton Range, the Wind River, and various locations in the Yellowstone River Valley. There is one drawing not from the expedition and it is of Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica. It was probably drawn in 1847, and has on its verso: "W R Hutton" and a New York City address. Also included is a photostat of a daguerreotype of James D. Hutton (FAC 1402).

  mssHM 63328

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  Tehama County history

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  This typed manuscript is a history of Tehama County and Red Bluff, the county seat. Gans describes in detail the following characteristics of the county: climate, wild life, geographic features, industries, railroads, libraries, water supply, schools, livestock, and agriculture of the county. Gans also talks about Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lassen National Forest, as well as prominent citizen William Brown Ide, who became President of the Bear Flag Republic in 1846, and Ishi, the Yana Indian who was found in Tehama County. Glued onto the manuscript is a newspaper clipping giving the population of Tehama County in 1951. Accompanying the manuscript is a typed letter from Gans to historian William Henry Hutchinson regarding Gans' manuscript.

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  Miscellaneous materials on early Tuolumne County, Calif

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  Group of items related to the early history of Tuolumune County and particularly Sonora, California. Includes lists of members and membership applications (with dates of arrival in California from abroad, including Peru) for the Pioneer Society of Tuolumne County, as well as membership lists and receipts for the Sonora Hose Company No.1 fire department. Also includes an indenture for land in Mono County, California; a trading license from Esmeralda County, Nevada; a letter to the Tuolumne County Court of Sessions regarding a public road along the Stanislaus River; and an indictment in People vs. Jose Carralles (grand larceny horse theft, Sonora, California).

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  Autobiography of Joseph Grafton Hovey, compiled by M.R. Hovey [microform], 1953

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  Microfilm of a typescript version of Joseph Grafton Hovey's autobiography, adapted from his journals by his grandson M.R. Hovey in 1953. The volume opens with a note on "The Hovey Book" and a page tracing Joseph Hovey's descent from Daniel Hovey, the "First American Progenitor of the Hovey Descendants." The autobiography begins with as account of Hovey's childhood in Massachusetts, including the death of his father, his move to Boston, and his interest in religious revivals. It then describes his move to Illinois and conversion to the Mormon Church, includes Hovey's critical reaction to John C. Bennett, and describes the days leading up to and following the death of Joseph Smith at Carthage. Hovey then gives an account of Sidney Rigdon's departure from the Church, of Hovey's own ownership of shares in the Seventies Hall, and of his departure from Nauvoo in 1846. He then writes of traveling to Winter Quarters with Joseph Young and of his experiences there from 1846-1848, including the death of his wife from illness in 1847. The first part of the account ends with a description of his overland journey to Utah and his colonization of Iron County through about 1854. The rest of the volume consists of portions of Hovey's writings from about 1855-1856, which cover his life in Palmyra, Utah, and his mission to Provo. This portion of the volume is annotated by M.R. Hovey. The volume concludes with a portion of Hovey's wife Lusannah Hovey's record of the family's move to Cache Valley in 1860 and of Joseph Hovey's death in 1868. Also included is some Hovey family genealogy.

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