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English
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Register of the Records of Mormon Settlements in Arizona
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Salt Lake City
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Special Collections Department, University of Utah Library
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"George S. Tanner began collecting materials on the early Arizona settlements in 1963. His first major project was the collection of the diaries of John Bushman. These diaries had been the source for John Bushman's Journal, which Bushman finished in 1918. Upon completion of the Journal, the diaries were scattered among family members in Utah, Arizona, and California. George S. Tanner began the task of gathering these diaries (more than forty in number) which he typed and bound into two large volumes. This was the beginning of a long and fruitful search for diaries, journals, correspondence, and other items relating to the history of the Mormon settlements in Arizona. Included in the collection are diaries, journals, autobiographies, biographies, correspondence, and histories covering the earliest settlements of 1876 (Brigham City, Joseph City, Obed, and Sunset) to present day communities. There are brief accounts of early Indian (1867-1873) and exploratory missions to Arizona." [Author]