Author: Western Writers of America Publisher: Caxton Press ISBN: 9780870043048 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 332
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Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Nineteen veteran authors, members of the Western Writers of America all, have been collected in this volume of essays detailing the travails and triumphs of the whites who emigrated rest along the Pioneer Trails.
Author: Foster Stockwell Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786484381 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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Genealogists can sometimes require obscure resources when in search of information about ancestors. Tracking down records to complete a family tree can become laborious when the researcher doesn't know where to begin looking. Many of the best resources are maintained regionally or even locally, and aren’t widely known. This reference work serves as a guide to both beginning and experienced genealogy researchers. The sourcebook is easily accessible and usable, featuring approximately 270 entries on all aspects of genealogical research and family history compilation. The entries are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced so any researcher can quickly find the information he or she is seeking. Each state and each of the provinces of Canada has its own entry; other countries are listed under appropriate headings. The author also provides more than 700 addresses from all over the world so that the genealogist or general researcher may contact any one of these organizations to obtain specific information about particular births, deaths, marriages, or other life events in order to complete a family tree.
Author: Glen Fostner Harding Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 738
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Descendants lived in New England, New York, Utah and elsewhere. Direct descendant Dwight harding (1807-1871) was born in Massachusetts and married Phebe Holbrook in New York. They became Mormon converts and moved to Illinois and then to Utah.
Author: Reese B. Mason Publisher: ISBN: Category : Idaho Languages : en Pages : 226
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William Bradbury and his family sailed for America on 7 February 1849. On 1 July 1839, William had been baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in England. He married Margaret Townsend ca 1842 and had four children of which two died. The youngest son, William Hyrum Bradbury lived to come to America where he contracted cholera and died after his mother had also contracted the disease and both are buried in St. Louis, Missouri. After traveling to Iowa where he met and married Jane Dunsdon, the family traveled and settled in Utah.
Author: Elizabeth Petty Bentley Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com ISBN: 9780806317960 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 816
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This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.
Author: David Bigler Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
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In May 1855 twenty-seven men set out from the young Mormon settlements in Utah to establish the northernmost colony of the Kingdom of God, "the Northern Mission to the Remnants of the House of Jacob"-American Indians. More colonists, including families, would join them later. Building a fort in the Limhi Valley, four hundred miles to the north and at the foot of the pass by which Lewis and Clark had crossed the Continental Divide, they began to proselyte among Sacagawea's Shoshone relatives as well as members of the Bannock, Nez Percé, and other tribes. Three years later, some of their expected and actual Indian converts violently drove the colonists out and destroyed Fort Limhi. In Fort Limhi: The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1855-1858, David Bigler shows that the colony, known as the Salmon River Mission, played a pivotal role in the Utah War of 1857-1858 and that the catastrophic end of the mission was critical in keeping that conflict from becoming an all out war between Mormon Utah and the United States. In the process, he uses a multitude of primary sources, many newly uncovered or previously overlooked, to reconstruct a dramatic and compelling story involving stalwart Mormon frontiersmen, Brigham Young, a variety of Native American individuals and groups, the U. S. Army, and "mountaineers," as the surviving fur trade veterans now commonly known as "mountain men" called themselves.
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