George A. Smith journal

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  George A. Smith letter to Gen. John E. Smith

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  Letter from George A. Smith to Gen. John E. Smith, Assessor of Internal Revenue, with descriptions of the southern counties of the Utah Territory. Includes prose accounts of the population, crops, irrigation, geography, cost of goods, and losses from Indian attacks for Sanpete County, Juab County, Sevier County, Piute County, Millard County, Beaver County, Iron County, Washington County, and Kane County. Smith also writes of the difficulty of reporting property losses because of the lack of roads and bridges and high postage costs.

  mssHM 75012

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  George Albert Smith autobiography

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  This is a typescript made from the original owned by Mrs. Nora Jarvis of Saint George, Utah. It is an autobiography written by George Albert Smith (1817-1875) and covers the time period from his birth in 1817 to his missionary work in England in 1840. Smith writes of his childhood in New York; his first introduction to Mormonism and his subsequent conversion; his service in Zion's Camp and role as one of Joseph Smith's bodyguards; and his work in preaching the gospel, including details of his travels to Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and England, as well as descriptions of the persecutions he and his fellow Mormons experienced in their efforts.

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  George H. Ringgold letter to A.S. Ensworth

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  Ringgold writes of military and general details in San Francisco. Of the Civil War, he writes "The war still drags, but I believe we have turned the fence corner and can see out of the woods." With one-page typescript.

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  H. T. Scott journal

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  This journal is H.T. Scott's account of his overland journey to California. Most of the daily entries document he and his party distance traveled that day, and where they camped. Upon arriving at Sonora in the final entry, Scott writes, "We can get plenty here to eat we was very glad when we could see the town sum." Dated 1852, April 13 through August 23. Also included is a photocopied facsimile of the diary.

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  Henry Lunt journal

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  A manuscript copy of the journal that Henry Lunt kept while serving as the assistant clerk of the pioneer company led by George Albert Smith (1817-1875), that journeyed from Salt Lake City, Utah to Parowan. Lunt gives such details as the names of those in the company, lists of their provisions, and a day to day account of their journey.

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  Autobiography of George Washington Brimhall [microform] : c.1888-1889

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  Microfilm of a typescript of George Washington Brimhall's autobiographies. The first part, entitled History and Biography of the First Part of the Life of George Washington Brimhall, includes anecdotes about Brimhall's childhood and young adult life in New York state, including stories about his family's lumber freighting business. The account ends with his travels through the Northeast in the late 1830s and his eventual settling in Knoxville. The second part, entitled A True History and apparently begun at Spanish Fork, Utah, on December 15, 1888, primarily recounts Brimhall's experiences in Utah. It begins with an allegorical description of his family life in Illinois and his call west. Brimhall then recounts volunteering with Zadok Knapp Judd to help found a new colony (probably the Iron Mission near Parowan); encounters with Indians near in the area of Sevier; his service in the state legislature; continuing famine conditions and hard winters; experiences in Ogden, Cedar City, and Salt Lake City; being sent to colonize Grafton, in Kane County near the Rio Virgin, in 1864; difficult travel conditions and his reluctance to relocate to St. George and Spanish Fork; 1873 Indian peace treaty negations involving Judge John Cox and Chiefs Poikneapah, Ungutsup, and Tamerat; and his treatment for Brights Disease in San Francisco 1877. The accounts end in 1889.

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