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 | 088.gif |
Title | Twelve Mormon Homes, page 067 |
Description | once with undissembled admiration, and stood posturing before it, and adjusting a strip of leather, dotted with tin studs, that covered the parting of his coarse, black locks, until the rest of the party had filed out. Kanosh, an old acquaintance of 18$3, mourned to my hus- band over the changes death had caused in his band since then, and asked to be told the truth: were any gifts or annuities allotted him by the government; or was he cheated out of them by the agents; had he not a right to stay on the farm his band cultivated at Corn Creek; why must he "be poked ofi with guns to `Uintah?" I do not intend to report Kanosh's set speech, although it struck me as decidedly clever. His prejudice against Mr. Dodge, the agent, has probably no greater foundation than most Indian complaints.38 How great that is, I reserve my opinion! My hus- band made Kanosh dictate a statement in his own words, which I took down in my pocket-diary. The astute old fox made three persons read it to him to make sure I was not cheating him, before he made his X mark: "One snow-time since, I got blankets; no flour, no beef, but a little last spring; no flour, no oats, no wheat, no corn, no bullets; no see nothing but Dodge; Dodge talk heap talk; weino peshar- rony katz yak-good talk, but no give." (Mr. D. is said to have been a Baptist clergyman or missionary.) his KANOSH, X mark. Fillmore, Dec. 17, 1872. "This would be W. G. Dodge, special agent sent to Utah to help in the Black Hawk War. See Jones, Forty Years Among the Indians, pp. 200-1 I; and Flora 67 |
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 | 328843 |
Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6b27tj2/328843 |