Matthew Caldwell Autobiography

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Title Matthew Caldwell Autobiography
Subject Indians of North America; Military; Indian women; Indian children; Latter Day Saints; Utah; War; Men; Families; Indigenous peoples--North America
Keywords Military; Native Americans
Publisher Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Language eng
Description Matthew Caldwell and family traveled to Utah in Aaron Johnson Company (1850) and settled in American Fork, moved to Springville (1853), and later moved to Spanish Fork, where Caldwell served as mayor and was military officer in local Indian wars. Caldwell recounts details of 1845 murder of elderly Mormon, Edmund Durfee, by Adam Snider, one of Caldwell's neighbors, near Green Plains, Illinois.
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Rights Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church History Library
ARK ark:/87278/s6vh8k3v
Date 1822; 1912
Spatial Coverage American Fork (Utah)
Setname uaida_main
ID 389334
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vh8k3v
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