Trails to Utah and the Pacific
Subtitle: diaries and letters, 1846-1869
By: Lee Library, Brigham Young University and Utah Academic Library Consortium
Contributors: Harold B. Lee Library; Utah Academic Library Consortium; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Mormon pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries; Mormon pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources; Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries; Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860 -- Sources; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Sources; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- Sources
Genres: Diaries; Sources
Other titles: American memory
Description: Tells the stories of Mormon families and other pioneers as they moved westward across the United States to Utah, Montana, and the Pacific between 1847 and 1869. Features forty-nine diaries, forty-three maps, eighty-two photographs and illustrations, and seven published guides for immigrants. Derived from source materials from the collections of Brigham Young University, members of the Utah Academic Libraries Consortium, and other archival institutions in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho
Notes: Title from Web page (viewed on Aug. 14, 2002)

Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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