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    • Young, Joseph

    • Young, Joseph

    • Young, Joseph, 1797-1881; Young, Joseph, 1797-1881--Diaries; Mormon pioneers--United States--Diaries; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Clergy--Diaries; Overland journeys to the Pacific;

    • Handwritten account book and diary. Accounts date from 1848 to 1855. Pages 67 to 104 of the diary relate Young's overland journey to Utah in 1850 by ox team. Young writes about general traveling conditions and trail landmarks, several deaths from...
    • Young, Joseph Angell

    • Young, Joseph Angell

    • Young, Joseph Angell, 1834-1875; Young, Joseph Angell, 1834-1875 Diaries; Mormon missionaries--United States--Diaries; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Missions--East (U.S.); Mormons--Travel--United States; Immigrants--United States;...

    • Concerns Young's mission to the Eastern States, February-March, 1864, arranging railroad passage for emigrants to Utah. He continued on to Liverpool to complete his mission, collecting emigrants and arranging boat passage.
    • Willie Rescue Site

    • Willie Rescue Site

    • James G. Willie Emigrating Company; Rocky Ridge (Wyo.); Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail;

    • This monument commemorates the event when rescue teams sent by President Brigham Young in Salt Lake City located the members of the Willie Handcart Company in October 1856. These starving and freezing emigrants were suffering in extremely adverse...
    • Willie Rescue Site

    • Willie Rescue Site

    • James G. Willie Emigrating Company; Rocky Ridge (Wyo.); Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail;

    • This monument commemorates the event when rescue teams sent by President Brigham Young in Salt Lake City located the members of the Willie Handcart Company in October 1856. These starving and freezing emigrants were suffering in extremely adverse...
    • Western Union

    • Western Union

    • Texan; chivalry; Maverick Queen; prophetic;

    • "[Darnell from Sweetwater (South Pass)] Only one Texan among those cattlemen that I know of. He [Lee in MQ] is a fine rancher but tough on the cowboys an' the war that's comin' between cowboys an' cattlemen I see that he is goin' to get shot."...
    • Walker, William Z.

    • Walker, William Z.

    • Walker, William Z., d. 1862; Walker, William Z., d. 1862--Diaries; Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Diaries; Gold miners--California--Diaries; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Oregon National Historic Trail; Salt Lake City (Utah)--Description and travel;

    • Handwritten diary of Walker's overland journey by ox and mule team from Boston, Massachusetts, to Sacramento, California, in 1849. Daily entries give good description of travelling conditions. Walker describes cholera outbreaks, a variety of...

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