Microfilm of a collection of typed anecdotes about early Mormon pioneers in Utah and Arizona, primarily written by Sullivan Calvin Richardson. The text opens with a general story of Mormons crossing the plains to Utah and early descriptions of settlements and the landscape. It also notes difficult working condition of laborers on the canal from the Rio Virgin, the building of settlements in Dixie, the construction of Call's Landing, and the giving up of homes on the Muddy River after some were found to be across the Nevada state line (where taxes were too high). The account includes quotes from settlers such as Charley Curtis, William Halladay, George A. Smith, Orville Allen, Lorenzo Watson, and Ammon M. Tenney. The microfilm also includes two poems identified as "The Transformation of the Pioneers," consisting of "Someone's Opinion of Arizona" by Charles O. Brown and "Answer to Some-one's Opinion of Arizona" by S.C. Richardson a sketch of early Arizona by "˜Lige Hancock sketches of 1870s Arizona pioneers Peter O. Peterson, Andrew Anderson, Andrew Woods, O.C. Oveson, M.H. Peterson, and Andrew Locie Rogers by S.C. Richardson the text of the "Arizona Song" by "some of the Salt Lake Boys " and a sketch of Arizona pioneers by Joseph H. Richards. All inquiries about this item should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Photographic Dept., 1950. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Sullivan Calvin "Sullie" Richardson (1861-1940) was born in Manti, Utah, and moved to Springville as a child. Following the early death of his parents, he was largely raised by his brother Charles Edmund Richardson. He worked at various odd jobs, lived at the United Order settlement in Brigham City, and moved to Arizona and later Mexico, working in each place as a teacher and carpenter. In 1912 he left Mexico and moved to Gila Valley, Arizona, and later to Mesa, where Richardson worked on the temple. He died in California in 1940.
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