Abstract This collection contains three types of material: first person accounts (diaries, journals, and autobiographies), second person accounts (biographies, life sketches, and local histories), and transcripts of interviews with pioneer Utahns. Includes material dealing with early Mormon history in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois; Mormon migration west; the march of the Mormon Battalion and its activities in California; Mormon pioneering in and travel to California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming,...

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Research, notes, etc. for George Ellsworth's book called Utah's heritage. It also contains notes on the revisions of the text and also the publication information.

Abstract The collection consists of 30 manuscript volumes (24 in original holograph and 6 in photocopy). In addition to detailing Brigham Young's personal financial affairs, the records also contain an almost comprehensive account of his actions as trustee-in-trust of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; in essence, they are financial records of the Church from 1859 to 877. The ledgers show that little distinction was made in accounting between properties of the Church and Brigham Young's...