Identifier | /tanner/twelve_mormon.xml |
Title | Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona. |
Creator | Kane, Elizabeth Wood (1836-1909) |
Subject | Mormons; Polygamy; Mormon families |
Subject Local | Utah--Description and travel--19th century; Kane, Thomas Leiper (1822-1883)--Relations with Mormons; Kane, Thomas Leiper (1822-1883)--Correspondence |
Description | General Thomas L. Kane, friend to Brigham Young, was well known as a mediator between the Mormons and the federal government. He and his wife, Elizabeth, visited Utah in 1872-73. This publication is a collection of letters Elizabeth wrote to her father during the trip. The letters provide interesting descriptions of Mormon social customs, Mormon-Indian relationships, and insightful observations of the practice of polygamy among the Mormons. |
Publisher | Tanner Trust Fund University of Utah Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Contributors | Cooley, Everett L. |
Date | 1974 |
Type | Text |
Format | application/pdf |
Format Creation | Digital images scanned at 8-bit grayscale on an Epson Expression 836XL flatbed scanner, and saved as uncompressed TIFF files at 3678 x 5370 pixels resolution. Display GIF files generated In PhotoShop. |
Language | eng |
Relation | Is part of: Utah, the Mormons, and the West, no. 4; IsVersionOf Twelve Mormon homes, published in 1874 in Philadelphia. |
Coverage | 1872 |
Rights Management | University of Utah, Copyright 2001 |
Holding Institution | J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
Source Physical Dimensions | 17 cm x 23.5 cm |
Source Characteristics | Printed Hard Cover Book |
Scanning Device | Epson Expression 836XL Flatbed Scanner |
Resolution | TIFF: 3678 x 5370 pixels |
Dimensions | GIF: 690 x 1007 pixels |
Bit Depth | Text: 1-bit / Images: 8-bit (grayscale) |
Scanning Technician | Karen Edge |
Metadata Cataloger | Karen Edge; Jan Robertson |
Call Number | F 826 .K1 1974 |
Spatial Coverage | Salt Lake City (Utah) to St. George (Utah). |
ARK | ark:/87278/s6b27tj2 |
Topic | Mormons; Mormon families; Polygamy; Utah |
Setname | uum_ttb |
Date Created | 2005-04-20 |
Date Modified | 2011-04-07 |
ID | 328926 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b27tj2 |
Identifier | 056.gif |
Title | Twelve Mormon Homes, page 035 |
Description | "It happened," she went on, "that the next day was Sunday. I could not go to meeting, having a bad headache. As I sat by the window reading my Bible, I saw Indians come stealing by until they completely surrounded the church. They were all armed, and I was too much terrified to leave my seat, either to hide my- self or to make an effort to warn the congregation. Baptiste was leader of the band; and after a few minutes, he stripped and danced into the church naked." "Oh ! " I exclaimed, involuntarily, "what did he do that for?" "I wondered, too," she answered; "but I learned that it was done to banter them-that is," she explained, replying to my look of interrogation- "to insult them by indecent behavior, and make them turn him out. That would have given him an excuse to work himself and his band into a fighting rage. That's the way with the poor creatures, you know. Some of their grandest warriors seem to need to work themselves up into a kind of i hysterical passion, before they are brave enough to attack our people when they affect not to mind them. "Baptiste was disappointed. One of the brethren sitting near a window bethought himself to look out, and seeing the Indians, warned the rest. So they took no notice of Baptiste; but con- tinued the services, only singing a little louder in the hymn parts, perhaps; and Baptiste stood awhile, then sat down, and then stole out, and took his band away. "Some say," she interrupted herself with a smile, "that he thought that a great `medicine' was going on, and considering himself a brother of the craft, withdrew from courtesy. "Whatever his motive was, we took it as a warning; the set- tlers were all moved into the Fort; and three days after, the 35 |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona |
Setname | uum_ttb |
Date Created | 2005-04-14 |
Date Modified | 2005-04-14 |
ID | 328811 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b27tj2/328811 |