Identifier | /tanner/image/forty_niner.xml |
Title | A Forty-niner in Utah with the Stansbury Exploration of Great Salt Lake: Letters and Jounral of John Hudson, 1848-50 |
Creator | Hudson, John, 1826-1850 |
Subject | Frontier and pioneer life; Letters; Diaries -- Authorship; Mormons |
Subject Local | Mormons --Utah--Biography; Frontier and pioneer life --Utah; West (U.S.) --Description and travel; Utah --Description and travel |
Description | John Hudson, artist and writer, chronicles his travels from New York City across the Plains towards California to partake in the Gold Rush. What was to have been a temporary stop in Salt Lake City stretches to sixteen months and includes participation in Captain Howard Stansbury's expedition of the Great Salt Lake. |
Publisher | Tanner Trust Fund University of Utah Library, Salt Lake City, Utah |
Contributors | Madsen, Brigham D.; Cooley, Everett L.; Tyler, S. Lyman; Ward, Margery W. |
Type | Text |
Format | application/pdf |
Language | eng |
Relation | Is part of: Utah, the Mormons, and the West, no. 11 |
Coverage | Time: 1848-50 |
Rights Management | University of Utah, Copyright 2001 |
Holding Institution | J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
Source Physical Dimensions | 14.75 cm x 23 cm |
Source Characteristics | Printed Hard Cover Book |
Scanning Technician | Karen Edge |
Metadata Cataloger | Kenning Arlitsch; Jan Robertson |
ARK | ark:/87278/s6v1242x |
Topic | Mormons; Frontier and pioneer life; United States, West; Utah; Letters; Diaries--Authorship |
Setname | uum_ttb |
Date Created | 2005-04-20 |
Date Modified | 2011-04-07 |
ID | 327931 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v1242x |
Identifier | 228.gif |
Title | Forty-niner in Utah, Appendices page 199 |
Description | Colony Guard Constitution PREAMBLE. jvhereas we, the undersigned inhabitants of the United States of America, intending to emigrate to California for the purpose of Min- ing, and knowing the many dangers, priva- tions, and hardships we must there necessarily meet : the temptations to which we will daily be exposed by being brought in contact with avarice and vice, in all its forms : and knowing, as we do,that the eager pursuit of !gold calls forth the worst passions of the human heart, rtimu- lating selfishness in the extreme, engendering a disregard for the rights of others, and directly tending to the abandonment of the Sabbath, And since we have reason to fear that a debas- ing influence upon ourselves, may result from the nature of the circumstances under which we will be placed. And whereas we are desi- rous of promoting our mutual interests, and maintaining our character as Americans, and as cnlight ened and moral men. `And whereas in our opinion, the only basis upon which we can form and maintain union and harmony among ourselves, is the intelligence, zntegrity, honop industry, and CCO~~ON~~, of the members- Therefore, in order to accomplish the ob- jccts enumerated above, we pledge ourselves each unto the other, to sustain and abide by the following Constitution : ._ 799 |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | A Forty-niner in Utah with the Stansbury Exploration of Great Salt Lake: Letters and Journal of John Hudson, 1848-50 |
Setname | uum_ttb |
Date Created | 2005-04-14 |
Date Modified | 2005-04-14 |
ID | 327919 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6v1242x/327919 |