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Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
incorporates 49 diaries, in 59 volumes, of pioneers
trekking westward across
America to Utah, Montana, and the Pacific between 1847 and the meeting of
the rails
in 1869. In addition to the diaries, the collection includes 43 maps, 82
photographs and illustrations, and 7 published guides for immigrants.
Stories of persistence and pain, birth and death, God and gold,
trail dust and debris, learning, love, and laughter, and even trail tedium
can be found in these original "on the trail" accounts. The collection
tells the stories of Mormon pioneer families and others who were part of
the national westering movement, sharing trail experiences common to
hundreds of thousands of westward migrants. The source materials are
drawn from the collections of Brigham Young University, members of
the Utah Academic Libraries Consortium, and other archival institutions in
Utah, Nevada, and Idaho.
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The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record
of the past. These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes,
perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress,
Brigham Young University, and the Utah Academic Library Consortium do
not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain
materials offensive to some readers.
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this Collection at Brigham Young University*
The digitization and presentation of these materials by
the Lee Library at Brigham
Young University * was supported by an award
from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library
Competition and is sponsored by the Utah Academic Library Consortium.
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The source materials for this collection are housed at
Brigham Young University, the University of Utah*, Utah
State University*, the Church Archives of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints*, the Utah State Historical Society*,
the University of
Nevada,
Reno*, the
Churchill County Museum* in Fallon, Nevada, and
Idaho State
University.*
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