Item Detail
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2507
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21
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12
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English
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Journal of the Iron County Mission, John D. Lee, Clerk
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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April, July, October 1952
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20
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2-4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah Historical Society
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3-part series (109-34, 253-82, 353-83)
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December 10, 1850 to March 1, 1851. Lengthy daily entries detail the group's travel from Ft. Utah (now Provo, Utah) to the southern part of the state, looking for a good place to settle. Lee begins the diary with an account of his mission call. Most of the initial entries detail members of the mission, the organization of the mission leadership, and the procuring of provisions. As this was the official record of the mission designed to give an accurate and precise accounting of the group's daily acts, much of the space is devoted to minutia such as morning temperature, the purchase of provisions, mail sent or received, stopping times and places, distance traveled that day, weather, etc. Another large portion of the diary describes the overall lay and quality of the land, unique geographic features, and the areas' potential for settlement. The last section of the journal describes how the settlement site of Ft. Louisa (now Parowan, Utah) was chosen, built, and a government organized, including political resolutions. Interspersed are entries describing the settlement of Springville under Aaron Johnson, organizing the Iron County militia, Mission President George A. Smith's Indian policy, encounters with Ute Chiefs Walker and Peteetneet, sermons preached by George A. Smith while on the trail, and the group's trouble holding on to stock due to rustling and, as Lee implies, laziness. Lee also writes about troubles between British and American Saints, conflict between members of the group over falling in line with George A. Smith (literally and metaphorically), and his personal thoughts on Saints who went to mine gold in California.
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