Letters to Ammon M. Tenney, 1874 and 1880

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Title Letters to Ammon M. Tenney, 1874 and 1880
Alternative Title Ms34_005_021
Creator Young, Brigham, 1801-1877; Snow, Erastus Fairbanks, 1818-1888; Young, Brigham, 1836-1903
Contributor Tanner, George S.
Date 1874; 1880
Spatial Coverage Moenkopi (Ariz.); Coconino County (Ariz.); Oraibi (Ariz.); Moenkopi Plateau (Ariz.); Arizona
Subject Tenney, Ammon M. (Ammon Meshach), 1844-1925--Correspondence; Young, Brigham, 1801-1877--Correspondence; Snow, Erastus Fairbanks, 1818-1888--Correspondence; Young, Brigham, 1836-1903--Correspondence; Latter Day Saint missionaries--Arizona; Moenkopi (Ariz.)--History; Navajo Indians; Hopi Indians; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Arizona--History; Latter Day Saint churches--Arizona--History; Indigenous peoples--North America
Keywords Native Americans
Description Typed copies of two letters to Ammon M. Tenney: one, dated 1874, is from LDS President Brigham Young, asking Tenney, then at Kanab, Utah, to assist Jacob Hamlin in the Indian Mission among the Navajo. The second, dated 1880, is from Erastus Snow and Brigham Young, Jr., regarding Tenney's resignation from the Indian mission and reprimanding him for his attitude and questionable involvement in the purchase of the Barth brothers land.
Collection Number and Name Ms0034 Oral Histories of Mormon Settlement in Arizona
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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ARK ark:/87278/s66x5c95
Setname uum_msa
ID 1725691
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66x5c95
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