Identifier |
diary_brigham_young.xml |
Title |
Diary of Brigham Young 1857 |
Creator |
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 |
Subject |
Mormons; Diaries |
Subject Local |
Utah--Governors; Mormon Church--Presidents; Mormons--United States--Biography; Utah War, 1857-58 |
Description |
This publication is the first printing of a complete diary of the Mormon leader. It provides good insight into Brigham Young's interests and activities, but very little little information about his personal life. Edited and introduction by Everett L. Cooley. |
Publisher |
Tanner Trust Fund University of Utah Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Contributors |
Cooley, Everett L. (editor) |
Date |
1980 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
image/png |
Format Creation |
Digital images scanned at 8-bit grayscale on an Epson Expression 836XL flatbed scanner, and saved as uncompressed TIFF files at 3366 x 5370 pixels resolution. Display GIF files generated In PhotoShop. |
Source |
Diary of Brigham Young, 1857 |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
Is part of: Utah, the Mormons, and the West, no. 10 |
Coverage |
1857 |
Rights Management |
University of Utah, Copyright 2001 |
Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
Source Physical Dimensions |
15.5 cm x 23.5 cm |
Source Characteristics |
Printed Hard Cover Book |
Scanning Device |
Epson Expression 836XL Flatbed Scanner |
Resolution |
TIFF: 3366 x 5370 pixels |
Dimensions |
GIF: |
Bit Depth |
Text: 1-bit / Images: 8-bit (grayscale) |
Scanning Technician |
Clifton Brooks; Karen Edge |
Metadata Cataloger |
Clifton Brooks; Karen Edge; Jan Robertson |
Call Number |
BX 8695 Y7 A33 1980 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6t152wp |
Topic |
Mormons; Diaries; Letters; Mormon pioneers |
Setname |
uum_ttb |
Date Created |
2005-04-20 |
Date Modified |
2011-04-07 |
ID |
329270 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6t152wp |
Identifier |
Page 056.gif |
Title |
Diary of Brigham Young, page 056 |
Description |
contract from us-to Start an express&n+for ourselves. Sunday Aug 2 1857. This morning attended +nee&q Tabernackle enjoying good health, preached a discourse, and made some allu- sion to Joseph Smith the Prophets family when the meeting was over returned home and sealed some per- sons in my office. attended the afternoon meeting and was much interested with a discourse by Elder G. A. Smith. attended circle meeting +he Monday Aug 3 1857. Reading letters which arrived -from by the Cal. mail. Tuesday Aug 4 1857. preparing letters for Cal mail and .also for the express which I have concluded to send to Florence N[ebraska] T[erritory]. wrote to Br J W Cox and Bp Crosby to have the faithful saints in Sanbernardino prepare for coming home for if the U. S. was to commence hostilities with this people they would not be permitted to remain there by the Californians"' Wednesday Aug 5. Busied with the duties of the Office, and preparing letters operation. Hundreds of horses ran on the island and they wwe considered a superior animal. "GUnder this date letters were sent to church leadcrs other than in San Bernardino announcing the trorll)les in store for Utah and saying "Would you not like to conle holl~e and help us-if so release most of the old Elders in fact every one \\-hich can be spared and hasten to our lnidst." To Silas Slllith, H. I'. Richards, and Edward Partridge in Hawaii, Yolmg Letterhook, vol. 3: pp. 747751. Four days later, similar letters xvcre sent to 11'. I. A4pplehy, head of the Eastern Mission and editor of the A40wnon, telling him to suspend his publication and conic honle. Illid., p. 775. |
Format |
image/png |
Source |
Diary of Brigham Young, 1857 |
Setname |
uum_ttb |
Date Created |
2005-04-14 |
Date Modified |
2005-04-14 |
ID |
329005 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6t152wp/329005 |