Item Detail
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Vault MSS 23
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Joseph Young diary and accounts
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Overland Trails - Diaries
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Young, Joseph
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1848-1855
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President of the First Quorum of the Seventy from 1835 to 1881. Young was the older brother of Brigham Young (1801-1877), second president of the Mormon Church. Handwritten account book and diary. Accounts date from 1848 to 1855. Pages 67 to 104 of the diary relate Young's overland journey to Utah in 1850 by ox team. Young writes about general traveling conditions and trail landmarks, several deaths from accident and disease, encounters with Indian tribes, the condition of neighboring companies on the trail, and his duties as captain.