Item Detail
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MSS 162 Series 1 Item 3 box 1 folder 5
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Oliver Boardman Huntington diary
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Huntington, Oliver Boardman
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1847-1848
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Diary written by Huntington between November 1847 and July 1848. The journal contains details regarding the journey of the Mormon pioneers across the Western plains. Includes references to family members such as Zina and Precendia Huntington, acquaintances from the British Mission such as Henry Bailey Jacobs, Orson Hyde, and Orson Spencer, and to Mormon figures such as Joseph Smith, Heber C. Kimball, Brigham Young, Cyrenius Taylor, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, W. W. Phelps, Joseph Smith III, Amasa Lyman, and William Clayton.