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Diary of George Laub [microform]: 1874-1877

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Description: Microfilm of the third volume of George W. Laub's diary, identified as Journal of St. George and covering the years 1874-1877. The inside of the front cover is inscribed "journal prefaced & bound in this city [Salt Lake City] 1858" and notes that the volume belonged to George W. Laub of Logan, Utah, in 1916. The first page of the diary includes an incomplete entry on the Civil War. The second page picks up on January 1, 1874, when Laub was living in St. George. He writes throughout of working at a cart house, doing agricultural labor, hauling lumber, selling livestock, working on the Santa Clara ditch, visiting Pine Valley and Diamond Valley, camping along the Santa Clara River, and working on the St. George Temple. Laub often attended the Tabernacle, where he listened the George A. Smith and Brigham Young, who spoke of the necessity of building a temple, as well as discussing the inscription for a monument stone to Joseph Smith to be placed at the Kirtland Temple (January 11, 1874). Laub also writes of interaction with Navajos in Pine Valley and with what he describes as "Lamonites of the Sebech Nation" (March 1875), and worries about the state of affairs in the United States, writing that he continually reads in the newspapers of "fires, murders, shipwrecks, and treachery of all kinds," as well as violence between former slaves and the "white population" in the South (1875). The diary ends in August 1877. Included at the end of the volume is some family information.

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