Identifier |
genteel_gentile |
Title |
The Genteel Gentile, Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857 - 1858 |
Creator |
Canning, Ray R.; Beeton, Beverly |
Subject |
Utah Expedition, 1857-1858; Frontier and pioneer life; Polygamy; Letters |
Subject Local |
Cumming, Elizabeth Wells Randall, 1811-1867; Utah War, 1857-58 |
Description |
Letters Elizabeth Cumming wrote to her sisters-in-law describing her adventures accompanying the Utah Expedition from the Missouri River to the Salt Lake Valley in 1857-58. |
Publisher |
Tanner Trust Fund University of Utah Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Contributors |
Series Editors: Cooley, Everett L.; Madsen, Brigham D.; Tyler, S. Lyman; Ward, Margery W. |
Date |
1977 |
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 1300 x 1000 pixels resolution. Display GIF files generated In PhotoShop. |
Source |
The genteel gentile : letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857-1858 |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
Is Part Of: Utah, the Mormons, and the West, no. 8 |
Coverage |
1857-1858 |
Rights Management |
University of Utah, Copyright 2001 |
Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
Source Physical Dimensions |
25.5 cm x 20.5 cm |
Source Characteristics |
Printed Hard Cover Book |
Scanning Device |
Epson Expression 836XL Flatbed Scanner |
Resolution |
TIFF: Vertical: 740 x 1000 pixels, Horizontal: 1300 x 1000 pixels |
Dimensions |
Gif: Vertical: 740 x 1000 pixels, Horizontal: 1300 x 1000 pixels |
Bit Depth |
Text and Images: 8-bit (grayscale) |
Scanning Technician |
Clifton Brooks |
Metadata Cataloger |
Clifton Brooks; Jan Robertson |
Call Number |
F 826 .C98 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6xs5tn5 |
Topic |
Frontier and pioneer life; Polygamy; Letters; Utah Expedition (1857-1858) |
Setname |
uum_ttb |
Date Created |
2005-04-20 |
Date Modified |
2011-04-07 |
ID |
329269 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xs5tn5 |
Identifier |
Page 069.gif |
Title |
Genteel Gentile, page 069 |
Description |
Govr Powell & Major McCullough, commissioners of govern- ment sent out to Utah io do what Alfred had already done, before the aentlemen had left Waihm~ton, had preceded "5 by a few h&s on the journey. At this-hollow & maw a cleft stick, upright in the ground & a paper in the cleft! It was a note from our commissioners, telling US where they would encamp&await our coming. This camp was near the Yellow. 1 We passeda tolerable night, & in the morning were sur- rounded bv the most disagreeable looking Indians I have ever seen-& we have been surrounded by IndIani for several , months-so very ugly, & illthy & hideous m expression Two or three squaws were with the party, who looked Idmtlc, yet fierce & mmrable I wx glad to get away from the creatures" We enter to-da" Echo Ca,=mn These cafions are sad to have been the beds of rivcr~, many centuries ago. The first ten des or so the calion wx one long grassy valley, w,th very h,eh ereen hdls r,~,n~ on each s,dc-averarw about half a mile E, width a little pebbly stream twists& &rm & winds about in the valley. We crow it every few steps. The world is quite shut out from the quiet valley-but soon the banks became rocky cliffs, & a~mme all kinds of strange fantastic shapes, &the valley narrows to a mere httle road-then-then -words fail me to desmbe the exceedw emot,on that illled my heart to aching as we advanced-oily in the month of June does Echo Canon look a~ ii did when it wx my good fortune to see grandeur & beauty such a~ 1 can never forget. On my right were copper or orange cold. cliffs, 54 to be two thousand feet high in many places. These cliffs overhung our path (hardly a road, it was 50 grassy) &made it dim in broad 69 |
Format |
application/pdf |
Source |
The genteel gentile : letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857-1858 |
Setname |
uum_ttb |
Date Created |
2005-04-14 |
Date Modified |
2005-04-14 |
ID |
329227 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xs5tn5/329227 |