Item Detail
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16295
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Book
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English
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Heywood, Martha Spence, 1812-1873
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Not By Bread Alone : The Journal of Martha Spence Heywood, 1850-1856
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Brooks, Juanita
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Salt Lake City
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Utah State Historical Society
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1978
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1 January 1850 to 24 August 1856. Martha gives a summary of her life starting at her baptism. In Kanesville, Iowa she joins a wagon company under Edwin Woolley. Martha meets several Indian women near Fort Laramie, Wyoming and helps another company recover from a stampede. Arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, she has some difficulty accepting polygamy and makes hats for a living. Martha remarks on balls and other Salt Lake social events, as well as on the formation of a territorial government. She is sealed to Joseph Heywood, becoming his third wife. Joseph is appointed Marshal of the Territory of Utah and Martha receives her endowments in the Council House. They are among the first settlers of Salt Creek (later Nephi, Utah). Martha gives birth to her son, Joseph Heywood, in a wagon box and teaches school. Brigham Young and other officials visit Salt Creek and advise the settlers to build a fort. Chief Walker is angered by the construction of the fort and Martha has a daughter who dies. She travels to Salt Lake City to attend conference and attempts to stop drinking tea.|Journal of above that describes settlement of Utah territory, Salt Lake City cultural activites, insight into Utah society, and accounts of such events as the Gunnison Massacre and the Walker War.
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