Dale Lowell Morgan Papers
Author : Dale Lowell Morgan
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
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Author : Dale Lowell Morgan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,19 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
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Author : Dale Lowell Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Fur trade
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The Dale L. Morgan Papers are extraordinarily rich in source materials for historians of the Trans-Mississippi West during the 19th century. Major topics include the Mormon Church and related sects, mountain men, mapping and exploration of the Rocky Mountain and western United States, fur trade, overland migration, and the California Gold Rush.
Author : Dale Lowell Morgan
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Authors, American
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Scrapbook and miscellaneous items. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, pamphlets, correspondence, a diploma of graduation from the University of Utah, a 1933 yearbook for West High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and memorabilia. The materials refer to Morgan's personal life and writing career.
Author : Richard L. Saunders
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN : 0806188111
The first volume includes key extracts from Morgan's contribution to the WPA guide to Utah (1941), which remains an excellent introduction to the complex history of the Beehive State. It further provides a new historiographic introduction to his seminal work "The State of Deseret "and presents important previously unpublished works on the Kingdom of God, the Deseret Alphabet, and the origins of the infamous Danite society.
Author : Dale Morgan
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0806146710
Dale L. Morgan (1914–1971) remains one of the most respected historians of the American West—and his broad and influential career one of the least understood. Among today’s scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgan’s perennial goal was to complete a history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volume—the second of a two-part set—Morgan’s writings on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis they merit. Dale Morgan on the Mormons is a far-reaching compilation of the historian’s published and unpublished writings. Edited and annotated by Morgan scholar Richard L. Saunders, the collection includes not only essays but also book reviews and bibliographic studies, many published here for the first time. At the heart of this second volume is a newly corrected presentation of Morgan’s unfinished magnum opus, “The Mormons.” Also included are a number of forgotten treasures, including Morgan’s still-definitive article on the Emmett Company, which headed west from Nauvoo in 1844 as the first party of westering Latter Day Saints; his privately distributed bibliography of the lesser Mormon churches; and the historian’s last published reflections on the Mormon experience. Throughout, Saunders provides informative introductions that place each of the writings or groups of writings into biographical and historical context.
Author : Dale Lowell Morgan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803282001
"We pray the God of mercy to deliver us from our present Calamity," wrote Patrick Breen on the first day of 1847 as he and others in the Donner party awaited rescue from the snowbound Sierras. His famous diary appears in Overland in 1846, edited and annotated by Dale L. Morgan. This handsome two-volume work includes not only primary sources of the Donner tragedy but also the letters and journals of other emigrants on the trail that year. Their voices combine to create a sweeping narrative of the westward movement. Volume I concentrates on the experiences of particular pioneers making the passage—their letters and diaries describe omnipresent dangers and momentary joys, landmarks, Indians encountered, disputes within the companies, births and deaths. Volume II, also based on contemporary records, offers a broader but no less vivid view of what it was like to go west in 1846 and pictures what was found in California and Oregon.
Author : Bancroft Library
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : America
ISBN : 9780520019911
Author : Elizabeth A. Fenn
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0374711070
Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how these Native American people thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world.
Author : Dale Lowell Morgan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 1953-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803251380
In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, “the mild and Christian young man” blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.
Author : J. Cecil Alter
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Utah
ISBN :
List of charter members of the society: v. 1, p. 98-99.