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    • Powel, John A.

    • Powel, John A.

    • Powel, John A. (John Alkire), 1807-1880; Powel, John A. (John Alkire), 1807-1880--Diaries; Overland journeys to the Pacific;

    • Handwritten journal of Powel's overland journey from Illinois to Linn County, Oregon, in 1851. Includes daybook of receipts and expenses and a record of marriages performed by Powel. Daily diary entries mostly deal with travelling conditions and...
    • Overland Trails - Diaries
    • Purdy, John H. Letters

    • Purdy, John H. Letters

    • Purdy, John H.; Purdy, James H.--Correspondence; Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Correspondence; Gold miners--California--Correspondence; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Salt Lake City (Utah)--Description and travel; Sacramento (Calif.)--Description and...

    • Handwritten correspondence from John Purdy to his brother, James, about his overland journey by ox team from Columbus, Ohio, to California in 1849. Purdy is an intelligent and detailed writer. He describes various companies' rules and regulations...
    • Overland Trails - Diaries
    • Reuben Gardner Miller Collection

    • Reuben Gardner Miller Collection

    • Miller, Mary Jane Gardner, 1843-; Miller, James Robison, 1838-; Taylor, Frank J., 1894-1972; Winder, E. J. Gardner, Robert, 1819-1906; Miller, Reuben; Eastern Utah Telephone Company--History--Sources; Mormon Church--Missions--Southern...

    • Utah legislator, president of the Emery Stake for the Mormon Church, stock raiser, and organizer of the Eastern Utah Telephone Company. Diaries, correspondence, memoranda books, financial and genealogical records, biographical sketches, and...
    • EAD
    • Robert S. Ellison Collection

    • Robert S. Ellison Collection

    • Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881; Carter, William A., 1820-1881; Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942; Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934 ; Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896; Mackenzie, Ranald Lidell, 1840-1889; Brown, W. C. (William Carey), 1854-1939;...

    • Ellison (1875-1947) was a prominent Colorado lawyer, businessman, politician, historian, and author. ; Correspondence, genealogical notes, diaries, business records, drafts of writings, speeches, and collected research and reference materials...
    • EAD
    • Rosel H. Hyde

    • Rosel H. Hyde

    • United States. Federal Communications Commission--History--Sources; Mormons--Washington (D.C.)--History--Sources; Television--Law and legislation--United States--History--Sources; Radio--Law and legislation--United States--History--Sources; Mass...

    • In 1927, to clean up the confusion on the electromagnetic spectrum caused by too many signals and too few frequencies, Congress organized the Federal Radio Commission. Since then, many other issues of developing communications technology, in...
    • EAD
    • Ross T. Christensen Collection

    • Ross T. Christensen Collection

    • Christensen, Ross T. (Ross Taylor), 1918-; Brigham Young University. Dept. of Archaeology; Brigham Young University--Faculty; Leadership Week; Education Week; Society for Early Historic Archaeology; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives,...

    • Papers reflect his service as a Mormon missionary in Brazil, 1939-1942; service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, 1943-1945; career as a professor of archaeology at Brigham Young University, 1952-1978; activities as a founding member...
    • EAD
    • Russel B. Swensen Collection

    • Russel B. Swensen Collection

    • Brigham Young University--Faculty--History--Sources; Educators--Utah--History--Sources; Mormon Church--Missions--Germany--History--Sources; Mormon Church--Missions--Switzerland--History Sources

    • Author and professor of religious education and medieval history at Brigham Young University. He died in 1987. Diaries, correspondence, articles, family histories, and miscellaneous items. The materials deal largely with Swenson's early life in...
    • EAD
    • Shoemaker

    • Shoemaker

    • Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Diaries; Gold miners--California--Diaries; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Placerville (Calif.); Indians of North America; Gold mines and mining--California--History--19th century;

    • Handwritten diary. Shoemaker describes his overland journey from Porter, Cass County, Michigan, to Hangtown (later Placerville), California, in 1850. Upon arrival, he "bought a shovel & a pick the gold dust for to dig." Daily entries are moderately...
    • Overland Trails - Diaries
    • Smith, Job

    • Smith, Job

    • Smith, Job, 1828-1913; Smith, Job, 1828-1913--Diaries; Mormon pioneers--United States--Diaries; Mormon missionaries--Great Britain--Diaries; Basket makers--Utah--Salt Lake City--Diaries; Overland journeys to the Pacific;

    • Handwritten diary and autobiography. Smith writes about his conversion to the Mormon Church in England, his emigration to the United States in 1843, and life at Nauvoo, Council Bluffs, and Winter Quarters. The account is retrospective until 1849...
    • Overland Trails - Diaries
    • Snow, William

    • Snow, William

    • Snow, William, 1806-1879; Snow, William, 1806-1879--Diaries; Mormon converts--Vermont--Diaries; Mormon pioneers--United States--Diaries; Pratt, Orson, 1811-1881; Patriarchal blessings (Mormon Church); Overland journeys to the Pacific;

    • Handwritten autobiographical materials. Snow writes about his early life in Vermont, conversion to the Mormon Church, and missionary work. Some genealogy and patriarchal blessings are included. Snow made the overland journey by ox team from...
    • Overland Trails - Diaries
    • Spooner, Elijah Allen

    • Spooner, Elijah Allen

    • Spooner, Elijah Allen, 1811-1879; Spooner, Elijah Allen, 1811-1879--Diaries; Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Diaries; Gold miners--California--Diaries; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Oregon National Historic Trail; Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail;...

    • Overland diary and fifteen handwritten letters. Most of the letters are addressed to Spooner's wife and were written while on the overland journey by ox team from Adrian, Michigan, to Sacramento, California, in 1849. Spooner writes of encounters...
    • Overland Trails - Diaries
    • Thomas L. Kane and Elizabeth W. Kane Collection

    • Thomas L. Kane and Elizabeth W. Kane Collection

    • Kane, Elizabeth Wood, 1836-1909; Young, Brigham, 1801-1877; Cannon, George Q. (George Quayle), 1827-1901; Hyde, Orson, 1805-1878; Mormons--Relations with Gentiles; Indians of North America

    • Friend to the Mormons; social reformer; son of John K. Kane, a Philadelphia judge who also worked in Washington, D.C. brother of Elisha Kent Kane, an Arctic explorer. Fought on Union side in American Civil War. Developer of Kane, an area of...
    • EAD
    • Thomas, George

    • Thomas, George

    • Thomas, George, 1821-1890; Thomas, George, 1821-1890--Diaries; Mormon converts--Wales--Diaries; Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Diaries; Mormon pioneers--Diaries; Hyde Park (Utah); Overland journeys to the Pacific;

    • Thomas writes of his activities as an LDS Church leader in Wales, immigration to the United States, and life in Hyde Park, Utah. The diary also includes family genealogical information.
    • Overland Trails - Diaries
    • Tolles, James

    • Tolles, James

    • Tolles, James, b. 1828 or 9--Diaries; Tolles, James, b. 1828 or 9; Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Diaries; Gold miners--California--Diaries; Oregon National Historic Trail; Overland journeys to the Pacific;

    • Correspondence of the Tolles family and James Tolles' overland diary from Rushville, Illinois, to California in 1849. Also included is a holograph copy of the diary made by Tolles' granddaughter, Doris Beard, in 1933. Tolles traveled to California...
    • Overland Trails - Diaries

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