Item Detail
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30945
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0
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English
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The Founding Document of the Mormon West
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Round Table : Cartography and the Founding of Salt Lake City
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Utah Histoical Quarterly
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2019
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87
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3
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Champaign, Illinois
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University of Illinois Press
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182-200
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With one exception, no major city can trace its origin to its first hour of existence and to a single individual. That exception is Salt Lake City. Brigham Young founded the capital of Utah at five o’clock on the afternoon of July 28, 1847. The beginnings of the city can be dated from that moment, and after more than 150 years in seclusion, the plat map that was used to lay out the city has been discovered. Henry Garlick Sherwood’s “plat of the Great City of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake” carried out Young’s instructions to survey the designated earth in conformity with Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s vision for his City of Zion. Drafted in ink on a piece of sheepskin and mounted on a rudimentary wooden roller, the plan for the “First Survey” was acquired by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress in 2017 [Author]
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History of Utah
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Life of Brigham Young : or, Utah and Her Founders
Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878 : Major Howard Egan's Diary : Also, Thrilling Experiences of Pre-frontier Life Among Indians, Their Traits, Civil and Savage, and Part of Autobiography, Inter-related to his Father's
Tales of a Triumphant People : A History of Salt Lake County, 1847-1900
The Mapmakers of New Zion : A Cartographic History of Mormonism
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints : The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock