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Back in print, this essential reference for readers interested in the Mormon Trail is part history, part resource book, part guide and photographic essay. It includes an historical introduction, a chronology, excerpts from trail diaries, along with maps, over 200 then-and-now photos, and descriptions of major museums and displays along the trail. By the author of previous volumes on the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe trails.
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail. --- Mormon pioneers -- West (U.S.). --- Mormon pioneers. --- West (U.S.) --History. --- Mormon pioneers --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- Mormons --- History. --- West (U.S.) --- Mormon Pioneer Trail --- Mormon Trail --- Pioneers --- Latter Day Saint pioneers
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""What an astonishing life and what a remarkable biography. Lewis Barney's sojourn on the hard edge of the American frontier is a forgotten epic. Not only does this book tell of an amazing personal odyssey from his birth in upstate New York in 1808 to his death in Mancos, Colorado, in 1894, but Barney's tale represents a living evocation of some of the most significant themes in American history. Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier shaped our national character, but Lewis Barney's life stands as a testament to the real impact of the westering experience on a man and his f
Mormon pioneers --- Mormon Church --- Barney, Lewis, --- Utah --- Frontier and pioneer life --- History --- West (U.S.) --- Pioneers --- Latter Day Saint churches --- Latter Day Saint pioneers --- Mormonism --- Christian sects
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Now in its eighth printing, Emma Lee is the classic biography of one of John D. Lee's plural wives. Emma experienced the best and worst of polygamy and came as near to the Mountain Meadows Massacre as anyone could without participating firsthand.
Pioneers --- Mormon pioneers --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Biography. --- Lee, Emma, --- Utah --- Batchelor, Emma, --- French, Emma, --- Latter Day Saint pioneers
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"During the winter of 1846-1847, members of the Donner Party found themselves stuck in the snows of the Sierra Nevada on their journey to California, losing many in their group to severe cold and starvation. Those who survived did so by cannibalizing their dead comrades. Today the Donner Party may be the most famous group of American overland emigrants to struggle through life-threatening conditions, but it is not the only one. Ten years after the Donner Party got itself into trouble, two groups sponsored by the Mormon Church ran into similar difficulties. Unlike the Donner Party, these people were following a well-traveled path, but they were doing it in a novel way, pushing and pulling their goods and children in handcarts some 1,300 miles from Iowa to Utah. In the end, over 200 died along the trail. The plights of these travelers have been addressed by different historians in different ways. This book is the first to examine these tragedies in terms of biology. Grayson shows that who lived and who died within these westward-bound groups can largely be explained by age, sex, and family ties. His investigation reveals what happens when our cultural mechanisms for dealing with famine and extreme cold are reduced to only what our very bodies can provide. These were real people in real danger. Understanding what happened to them helps us get at the core of who and what we all are"--Provided by publisher.
Mormon handcart companies. --- Mormon pioneers --- Disaster victims --- Mortality --- Biometry. --- Donner Party. --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- Biological statistics --- Biology --- Biometrics (Biology) --- Biostatistics --- Biomathematics --- Statistics --- Burial statistics --- Death --- Death rate --- Mortuary statistics --- Vital statistics --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Voyages and travels --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Victims of disasters --- Victims --- Pioneers --- Handcart companies, Mormon --- History --- Statistics. --- Sex differences. --- Statistical methods --- James G. Willie Emigrating Company. --- Edward Martin Emigrating Company. --- Martin Emigrating Company --- Martin Handcart Company --- Martin Company (Mormon pioneers) --- Willie Emigrating Company --- Willie Handcart Company --- Willie Company --- Handcart companies, Latter Day Saint --- Mormon handcart companies --- Latter Day Saint handcart companies. --- Latter Day Saint pioneers
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An illustrated collection of historical articles originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune from 1993 to 1996, InAnother Time provides both an entertaining introduction to Utah and a distinguished and popular historian's summary views of the state's peculiar history.Another Time will entertain and inform newcomers seeking an introductory understanding of what has made Utah different, old hands wanting to know more about the rich complexity of the state's past, and anyone who enjoys well-told historical tales.
Mormon pioneers -- Anecdotes. --- Utah -- History -- Anecdotes. --- Utah -- History. --- Mormon pioneers --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- United States Local History --- History & Archaeology --- Anecdotes --- Utah --- History --- Utah Territory --- UT --- Estato de Utah --- Yuta --- Юта --- I︠U︡ta --- Штат Юта --- Shtat I︠U︡ta --- Щат Юта --- Áshįįh Biiʼtó Hahoodzo --- Utah' osariik --- Γιούτα --- Giouta --- Πολιτεία της Γιούτα --- Politeia tēs Giouta --- Utaho --- Yù-thâ --- Uka --- Yútạh --- יוטה --- מדינת יוטה --- Medinat Yuṭah --- Uta --- Jūta --- Јута --- Юта Муж Улс --- I︠U︡ta Muzh Uls --- Tlahtohcāyōtl Utah --- ユタ州 --- Yutashū --- ユタ --- Statul Utah --- Utah suyu --- Држава Јута --- Država Juta --- Estado ng Utah --- Utah Eyâleti --- 犹他州 --- Youta Zhou --- 犹他 --- Youta --- Anecdotes. --- Pioneers --- State of Utah --- UT (Utah) --- Deseret --- Latter Day Saint pioneers
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Volume 1, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, edited by Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMary Richard's journals and letters record a young woman's rare, but richly detailed view of life in the temporary Mormon pioneer communities in Iowa.
Mormon women --- Mormons --- Pioneers --- Women pioneers --- Biography. --- Richards, Mary Haskin Parker, --- Missouri River Valley. --- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Mormon women -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Mormons -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Pioneers -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Richards, Mary Haskin Parker, 1823-1860. --- Women pioneers -- Missouri River Valley -- Biography. --- Mormon pioneers --- United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Women, Mormon --- Christian women --- Frontier women --- Pioneer women --- Missouri River Valley --- Parker, Mary Haskin, --- Parker, Mary, --- Missouri Valley --- Latter Day Saint women --- Latter Day Saint pioneers
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Caroline Crosby's life took a wandering course between her 1834 marriage to Jonathan Crosby and conversion to the infant Mormon Church and her departure for her final home, Utah, on New Year's Day, 1858. In the intervening years, she lived in many places but never long enough to set firm roots. Her adherence to a frontier religion on the move kept her moving, even after the church began to settle down in Utah. Despite the impermanence of her situation, perhaps even because of it, Caroline Crosby left a remarkably rich record of her life and travels, thereby telling us not only much abo
Crosby, Caroline Barnes. --- Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.). --- Middle West. --- Mormon pioneers - West (U.S.). --- Mormon women - West (U.S.). --- Mormons - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century. --- Salt Lake Valley (Utah). --- San Bernardino (Calif.). --- San Francisco (Calif.). --- Mormon pioneers --- Mormon women --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Mormons --- United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- History --- Crosby, Caroline Barnes, --- Salt Lake Valley (Utah) --- Middle West --- San Francisco (Calif.) --- San Bernardino (Calif.) --- Latter-Day Saints --- Women, Mormon --- Barnes, Caroline, --- San Bernardino, Calif. --- American Midwest --- Central States --- Central States Region --- Midwest --- Midwest States --- Midwestern States --- North Central Region --- North Central States --- Jordan Valley (Utah) --- Mormon Church --- Christian women --- Pioneers --- Mississippi River Valley --- Northwest, Old --- Christians --- Latter Day Saints --- Latter Day Saint women --- Latter Day Saint pioneers --- Brighamite Mormons --- Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members --- Hedrikites --- Josephite Mormons --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members --- Reorganized Mormons --- RLDS Mormons --- Strangite Mormons --- Temple Lot Mormons --- Utah Mormons
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Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883), a crusader for antislavery, women's rights, and the downtrodden, rose to prominence in his day as the most ardent and persuasive defender of Mormons' religious liberty. Though not a Mormon, Kane sought to defend the much-reviled group from the "Holy War" waged against them by evangelical America. His courageous personal intervention averted a potentially catastrophic bloody conflict between federal troops and Mormon settlers in the now nearly forgotten Utah War of 1857-58. Drawing on extensive, newly available archives, this book is the first to tell the full story of Kane's extraordinary life. The book illuminates his powerful Philadelphia family, his personal life and eccentricities, his reform achievements, his place in Mormon history, and his career as a Civil War general. Further, the book revises previous understandings of nineteenth-century reform, showing how Kane and likeminded others fused Democratic Party ideology, anti-evangelicalism, and romanticism.
Mormons --- Mormon pioneers --- Mormon Church --- Social reformers --- Abolitionists --- Soldiers --- Mormonism --- Christian sects --- Pioneers --- Latter-Day Saints --- Christians --- History --- Kane, Thomas Leiper, --- Osborne, A., --- Kane (Family : --- Relations with Mormons. --- Utah Expedition --- Utah War --- Utah Campaign --- Buchanan's Blunder --- Mormon War --- Mormon Rebellion --- Mormon Expedition --- Utah --- Áshįįh Biiʼtó Hahoodzo --- Država Juta --- Estado ng Utah --- Estato de Utah --- Giouta --- I︠U︡ta --- I︠U︡ta Muzh Uls --- Jūta --- Medinat Yuṭah --- Politeia tēs Giouta --- Shtat I︠U︡ta --- State of Utah --- Statul Utah --- Tlahtohcāyōtl Utah --- Uka --- UT (Utah) --- Uta --- Utah Eyâleti --- Utah' osariik --- Utah suyu --- Utaho --- Youta --- Youta Zhou --- Yù-thâ --- Yuta --- Yútạh --- Yutashū --- Πολιτεία της Γιούτα --- Γιούτα --- Штат Юта --- Щат Юта --- Юта --- Юта Муж Улс --- Јута --- Држава Јута --- מדינת יוטה --- יוטה --- ユタ --- ユタ州 --- 犹他 --- 犹他州 --- Deseret --- Utah Territory --- Kane, Thomas Leiper, -- 1822-1883.. --- Kane, Thomas Leiper, -- 1822-1883 -- Relations with Mormons.. --- Utah Expedition -- (1857-1858). --- Mormons -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.. --- Mormon pioneers -- Utah -- History -- 19th century.. --- Mormon Church -- United States -- History -- 19th century.. --- Social reformers -- United States -- Biography. --- Latter Day Saints --- Brighamite Mormons --- Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members --- Hedrikites --- Josephite Mormons --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members --- Reorganized Mormons --- RLDS Mormons --- Strangite Mormons --- Temple Lot Mormons --- Utah Mormons --- Latter Day Saint churches --- Latter Day Saint pioneers --- Relations with Latter Day Saints.
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Patience Loader has become an icon for the disastrous winter entrapment of the Martin and Willie handcart companies, who traveled the Mormon Trail in the 1850s. Her autobiography offers an important record of those events, but also of much more. Wife of a Civil War soldier, Patience served as an army laundress in Washington DC and ran a boarding house as well. After the war, her husband died of consumption, and Patience returned to Utah alone, where she became a cook in a mining camp.
Archer, Patience Loader. --- Edward Martin Emigrating Company. --- Mormon women - England. --- Mormon women - United States. --- Mormons - Emigration and immigration. --- Mormon women --- Mormons --- Christianity --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Emigration and immigration --- Emigration and immigration. --- Archer, Patience Loader, --- Utah Expedition --- Women, Mormon --- Loader, Patience, --- Martin Emigrating Company --- Martin Handcart Company --- Utah War --- Utah Campaign --- Buchanan's Blunder --- Mormon War --- Mormon Rebellion --- Mormon Expedition --- Latter-Day Saints --- Mormon Church --- Christian women --- Martin Company (Mormon pioneers) --- Christians --- Latter Day Saints --- Latter Day Saint women --- Brighamite Mormons --- Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members --- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members --- Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members --- Hedrikites --- Josephite Mormons --- Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members --- Reorganized Mormons --- RLDS Mormons --- Strangite Mormons --- Temple Lot Mormons --- Utah Mormons
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"The wagon trail between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles is one of the most important and least-known elements of nineteenth-century Western migration. Known as the Southern Route, it included the western half of the Old Spanish Trail and was favored because it could be used for travel and freighting year-round. It was, however, arguably the most difficult route that pioneers traveled with any consistency in the entire history of the country. Following not rivers but leading from one - sometimes dubious - desert watering place to the next and offering few havens for the sick, weary, or unfortunate." "Historian Edward Leo Lyman has provided the first history of the complete Southern Route, and of the people who developed and used it. Based on extensive research in primary sources - including many early travelers accounts - and on Lyman's own investigation of the route and its branches, the book discusses the exploration and development of the Old Spanish Trail. Its horse thieves and traders, including Jedediah Smith and Kit Carson, along with government explorer John C. Fremont. Developing the old pack mule trail as a wagon road between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, miners heading for the California gold fields first used the route extensively. Mormon missionaries and the colonisers of San Bernardino and other communities also traveled that way, as did a wide array of mail carriers, soldiers, and world travelers. Later, a steady stream of Anglo-American emigrants seeking new homes or fortunes in California shared the road with a surprising number of freight-wagon operators. The trail passed through the territories of numerous Native American peoples, and contacts with them - both friendly and hostile - played a significant role in the experiences of travelers and in the fates of Native American cultures in this region. Lyman's discussions of Mormon-Indian relations and of the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre offer fresh and important analyses of these vital aspects of the westward movement."--Jacket.
Mormon pioneers --- Pioneers --- Wagon trains --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Trails --- Overland journeys to the Pacific. --- First settlers --- Settlers, First --- Persons --- Caravans of covered wagons --- Caravans of wagons --- Covered wagon caravans --- Emigrant trains --- Trains, Wagon --- Wagon caravans --- Transportation --- Backcountry routes --- Backcountry tracks --- Bridle paths --- Bush tracks --- Bush walks --- Foot paths --- Foot trails --- Footpaths --- General purpose trails --- Hiking routes --- Hiking trails --- Horse trails --- Multi-use trails --- Multiple-use trails --- Paths (Trails) --- Recreation trails --- Recreational trails --- Routes, Backcountry --- Routes, Hiking --- Tracks (Trails) --- Tramping tracks --- Walking tracks --- Walks (Trails) --- Walkways (Trails) --- Hiking --- Mountaineering --- Roads --- Walking --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Voyages and travels --- History --- West (U.S.) --- History, Local. --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Latter Day Saint pioneers
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