Mormon midwife the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Title:
Mormon midwife the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Author:
Sessions, Patty Bartlett, 1795-1892.
ISBN:
9780874213270
9780585030241
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Publication Information:
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1997.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 457 p.) : ill.
Series:
Life writings of frontier women ; v. 2
Life writings of frontier women ; v. 2.
Contents:
Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher; Preface; Introduction; Diary One, 1846-1848; Diary Two, 1849-1850; Diary Three, 1851-1852; Diary Four, 1853-1855; Diary Five, 1856-1862; Diary Six, 1862-1880; Diary Seven, 1884-1888; Epilogue; Appendix One: Account Book; Appendix Two: Children's Families; Appendix Three: Braiding School Minutes; Bibliography; Index.
Abstract:
Patty Session's 1847 Mormon Trail diary has been widely quoted and excerpted, but her complete diaries chronicling the first decades of Mormon settlement at Salt Lake City have never before been published. They provide a detailed record of early Mormon community life from Illinois to Utah through the eyes of Mormondom's most famous midwife. They also recount her important role in women's social networks and her contributions to community health and Utah's economy, to pioneer education and horticulture. Patty Sessions assisted at the births of hundreds of early Mormons and first-generat.
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