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Erastus Fairbanks Snow report to Historian's Office

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Description: Report from Erastus Snow on settlements in Washington County and Kane County, Utah, as well as settlements in Arizona. Includes descriptions of the acreage, cost, and irrigation qualities of the St. George Field Dam on the Rio Virgin, canals on the St. George Field on the Santa Clara, and canals on the St. George Heberville Field. Snow also lists populations and crop (mainly cotton) conditions for various settlements in southern Utah, including St. George (pop. 1030), Washington and Harrisburg (pop.603), Santa Clara (pop. 247), Toquerville (pop. 180), Harmony (pop. 140), Kanara (pop. 85), Rockville (pop. 430), and Virgin City (pop. 405). He also lists populations for St. Thomas, Arizona (pop. 129) and Mill Point, Arizona (pop. 167). Crop reports for Grafton, Springdale, Shonesburg, Northup, Duncan's Retreat, and Mountain Dell are also included.
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Production date: 1866, September 15.
Call number: mssHM 72841

Erastus Fairbanks Snow autobiography

Manuscripts

Bound typescript of the autobiography of Erastus Fairbanks Snow, covering the years from approximately 1818 to 1847. The text essentially begins with Snow's baptism into the Mormon Church in about 1833 and traces his travels to Kirtland, Ohio. The rest of the autobiography focuses on Snow's itinerant preaching of the Mormon religion, particularly in the Virginia area.

mssHM 27974

Diaries of John B. Fairbanks [microform] : 1877-1902

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Microfilm of nine diaries kept by John Fairbanks from 1877-1902. The first diary opens in Payson in 1877, and recounts Fairbanks's mission to the southern states, including Alabama and Tennessee, in 1883; the second opens with a list of subscriptions for the Zion's Cooperative Mercantile and Manufacturing Institution in Payson (1869) and also includes an 1881-1882 diary kept at Payson and on the southern states mission; the third diary opens in 1881 when Payson was traveling to St. Louis and tracks his mission through 1882; the fourth diary is a continuation of the third diary; the fifth diary is another notebook and diary kept during his mission from 1882-1883; the sixth diary is also from 1882; the seventh diary is undated but also appears to be from the southern states mission; the eighth diary is dated 1890 and was apparently kept in Utah; and the ninth diary was kept while Fairbanks was traveling in Central and South America, including to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Colombia, in 1901-1902. It closes with a brief biography by an unknown author tracing Fairbanks's artistic endeavors from 1914-1917. Also included on the reel is a typescript by an unknown author entitled "South America Trip," which recalls Fairbanks's travels there.

MSS MFilm 00063

Devotions : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-138v [Devotions]: ff. 1-28: One Hundred Meditations on the passion; ff. 28-35: Prayers to the wounds of Christ; ff. 35-43: Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget; ff. 43-52: Eight papal indulgences accompanying the relevant prayers; ff. 52-67v: Prayers before and after Communion; ff. 67v-79: Prayers; ff. 79v-86: Rosary; ff. 86-102v: Fifteen Sorrows of the Virgin, Seven Joys of the Virgin, and other prayers to the Virgin including the O Intemerata; ff. 102v-113: Farced Salve Regina; ff. 113-117: Three prayers revealed by the Virgin to St. Mechtilde; ff. 117-136: Prayers to the Trinity, to the Virgin, to one's guardian angel, to Michael, John the Baptist, Peter, Paul, Andrew, James, John the Evangelist, Stephen protomartyr, the 10,000 martyrs, Lawrence, Pantaleon, Sebastian, Augustine (prayer in feminine form, for a nun), Martin, Nicholas, Bernard, Roch, Catherine, Barbara, Agnes, Ursula, 11,000 Virgins, Cecilia, Mary Magdalene, Anne, Elizabeth, Erasmus, All Saints; ff. 136v-138v, now blank but under ultraviolet light, an added text in Latin and in French.

mssHM 1249

Sketches of pioneer days in Southern Utah and Arizona [microform]: 1923-1924

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Microfilm of a collection of typed anecdotes about early Mormon pioneers in Utah and Arizona, primarily written by Sullivan Calvin Richardson. The text opens with a general story of Mormons crossing the plains to Utah and early descriptions of settlements and the landscape. It also notes difficult working condition of laborers on the canal from the Rio Virgin, the building of settlements in Dixie, the construction of Call's Landing, and the giving up of homes on the Muddy River after some were found to be across the Nevada state line (where taxes were too high). The account includes quotes from settlers such as Charley Curtis, William Halladay, George A. Smith, Orville Allen, Lorenzo Watson, and Ammon M. Tenney. The microfilm also includes two poems identified as "The Transformation of the Pioneers," consisting of "Someone's Opinion of Arizona" by Charles O. Brown and "Answer to Some-one's Opinion of Arizona" by S.C. Richardson; a sketch of early Arizona by 'Lige Hancock; sketches of 1870s Arizona pioneers Peter O. Peterson, Andrew Anderson, Andrew Woods, O.C. Oveson, M.H. Peterson, and Andrew Locie Rogers by S.C. Richardson; the text of the "Arizona Song" by "some of the Salt Lake Boys;" and a sketch of Arizona pioneers by Joseph H. Richards.

MSS MFilm 00189

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-209v; [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar; ff. 13-25v: Pericopes of the Gospels and Passion according to John; ff. 26-34v: Obsecro te, O Intemerata and other prayers to the Virgin; ff. 35-79: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; f. 79v ruled, but blank, except for rubric to the Hours of the Cross; ff. 80-83v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 84-87: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 87v, ruled, but blank; ff. 88-103v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 104-135: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 135v-144: Suffrages of Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Christopher, George, Adrian, Sebastian, James the Greater, Bernard, Catherine of Alexandria, Mary Magdalene, Martha, Apollonia, Barbara; ff. 144v-155: Prayers, including one in French; ff. 155v-186v: Psalter of St. Gregory; ff. 187-194v: Psalter of St. Augustine; ff. 195-207v: Psalter of St. Jerome. ff. 208-209v, blank.

mssHM 1143

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The trail of sixty snows : poem

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Typescript of two poems, "The Trail of Sixty Snows," by Cass Hite and "The Death of Hoskinini," by Cy Warman. "The Trail of Sixty Snows" is an autobiographical poem written by Hite on his 60th birthday. It recalls his childhood in "the old prairie State" (Illinois), the departure of his father for the California gold mines, and Hite's decision to travel westward in the 1860s, gold prospecting in Idaho, Arizona, Mexico, and Utah, where he searched for a Navajo mine he calls "El Mino Peso La-ki." The poem is largely in the third person, with Hite referring to himself by his Indian name of Hosteen Pish-la-ki. The second poem, "The Death of Hoskinini," was written by Warman upon the death of Navajo chief Hoskinini. The beginning of this poem describes the roaming spirit of Hoskinini, while the final pages are a continuation of "The Trail of Sixty Snows" and contain more biographical information about Hite, including a reference to the murder charges against him.

mssHM 72349

Erastus Fairbanks Snow report to Historian's Office

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