Mormonism and the West
Owning Institution: Huntington Library
About this Collection
“Mormonism and the West” consists of PDFs generated from reproductions of original letters, diaries, journals, reminiscences and other records lent to The Huntington during the 1940s and 1950s by descendants of pioneering Mormon families, through the assistance of Mormon historian Juanita Brooks, as well as copies acquired from institutions such as Brigham Young University. The 160 reels of negative microfilm were converted to PDFs by the Huntington Library in 2013, and online catalog records were created to improve access to these documents. Nearly all these documents focus on the history of the Mormon faith during the 1830s and 1840s, the 1847 flight of its followers from persecution to the Great Salt Lake Valley in present-day Utah, and the subsequent Mormon settlement of the Intermountain West. View this collection on the contributor's website.View our statement on digital primary resources and historical description.
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