List gives sampling of contents of library's Mormon collection
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Following is a partial selection of Bancroft Library documents concerning Latter-day Saints compiled by Theresa Salazar, curator of Bancroft's Western Americana Collection:
Overland Pioneers
- Wilford Woodruff. "Pioneer Incidents." (1884)
- John R. McBride. The Route by Which the Mormons Entered Salt Lake City Valley in 1847. Salt Lake City. 1884.
Mormon Leaders
- Letter from George Q. Cannon to H. H. Bancroft
- Brigham Young collection of papers, 1844-1857
- Heber Jeddy Grant, 1856-1945. Autobiography.
Women
- Eliza Roxey Snow. "Sketch of My Life." 1885
- Sarah A. Cooke: Theatrical and Social Affairs in Utah. Salt Lake City.
1884.
- Clara (Decker) Young, 1828-1889: A Young Woman's Experiences with the Pioneer band. Salt Lake City. 1884.
Life in Early Mormon Utah
- Dictation of Israel Evans: With the Mormons in Missouri and
Illinois; in Mormon Battalion; workman for Sutter when gold was discovered;
to Utah via Carson River, 1848; life at Lehi from 1851.
- John Nebeker, 1813-1886: Emigration to Utah, 1847; the informal laws
under which the settlers first lived, and their administration.
- Narrative of Franklin Dewey Richards (1821-1899).
- Philo Taylor Farnsworth, 1826-1887: Dictation. Beaver City, Utah.
(1886?) Relates his exertions to protect the first emigrant train to travel
through southern Utah after the Mountain Meadow Massacre.
- John Taylor, 1808-1887: Reminiscences. Salt Lake City. 1884.
- William Clayton, 1814-1879: Letterbooks. Salt Lake City. 1860-1879.
Mormon Activities in the West
- James Henry Martineau, 1828-1921: Settlements in Arizona. (Pima,
Arizona. 1885)
- David A. Moore, 1819-: Salmon River Mission. (1855-1858)
- Narratives of the Journey of Jefferson Hunt's Wagon Train from Utah to Southern California in 1849
Mormon International Mission Work
- Orson Hyde missionary journal : typescript, 1832
- Danish Mormon Journals
Documents
- Lewis Crum Bidamon, Quit-Claim Deed for Property in Nauvoo,
Illinois, January 10, 1849.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Abstracts from an official
journal, kept in Brigham Young's name in the Church Historian's Office.
- Missouri State Department: Selected Documents concerning the Mormon War. 1838-1842.
