L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Lewis B. Rock diary (MSS SC 161). This is a handwritten diary of a man involved in the California Gold Rush. In his diary, Rock writes about his voyage by ship from Boston to San Francisco and his subsequent experiences …
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November 10, 2014 by Ryan K. Lee •
Civil War,
Dixie Cotton Mission,
Gold Rush,
Joseph Smith,
martyrdom,
Missouri,
Mormon Battalion,
St. George,
Sutter's Mill,
Utah
This week we are highlighting another item from our 19th Century Mormon and Western Manuscripts that was digitized this past year: the (Auto)biography of Samuel Miles. Samuel Miles Jr., son of Samuel Miles Sr. and Prudence Marks, was born on April 8, 1826 in Attica, New York. During the winter of 1833-1834, after moving to …
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