TY - BOOK ID - 8135318 TI - Mormon midwife AU - Sessions, Patty Bartlett AU - Smart, Donna Toland PY - 1997 SN - 087421274X 0874212278 1283077922 9786613077929 0874213274 0585030243 9780874213270 9780585030241 9780874212273 9780874212747 9781283077927 6613077925 PB - Utah State University, University Libraries DB - UniCat KW - Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.). KW - Midwives -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries. KW - Mormon women -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries. KW - Nauvoo (Ill.) -- Biography. KW - Sessions, Patty Bartlett, 1795-1892 -- Diaries. KW - Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries. KW - Women pioneers KW - Midwives KW - Mormon women KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Specialties, Nursing KW - Nursing KW - Health Occupations KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Midwifery KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - History & Archaeology KW - United States Local History KW - Diaries KW - Mormon midwives KW - Midwife KW - Traditional Birth Attendant KW - Birth Attendant, Traditional KW - Birth Attendants, Traditional KW - Traditional Birth Attendants KW - Health Professions KW - Health Occupation KW - Health Profession KW - Occupation, Health KW - Occupations, Health KW - Profession, Health KW - Professions, Health KW - Nursings KW - Nursing Specialties KW - Nursing Specialty KW - Specialty, Nursing KW - Women, Mormon KW - Frontier women KW - Pioneer women KW - Diaries. KW - Sessions, Patty Bartlett, KW - Nauvoo (Ill.) KW - Biography. KW - Pioneers KW - Birth attendants KW - Nurse midwives KW - Traditional birth attendants KW - Medical personnel KW - Christian women KW - Bartlett, Patty, KW - Parry, Patty Bartlett Sessions, KW - Latter Day Saint women UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8135318 AB - Patty Session's 1847 Mormon Trail diary has been widely quoted and excerpted, but her complete diaries chronicling the first decades of Mormon settlement at Salt Lake City have never before been published. They provide a detailed record of early Mormon community life from Illinois to Utah through the eyes of Mormondom's most famous midwife. They also recount her important role in women's social networks and her contributions to community health and Utah's economy, to pioneer education and horticulture. Patty Sessions assisted at the births of hundreds of early Mormons and first ER -