Life writings of frontier women. Vol. 3 being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer
Title:
Life writings of frontier women. Vol. 3 being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer
Author:
Pratt, Louisa Barnes, 1802-1880.
ISBN:
9780874213058
9780585033662
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Publication Information:
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1998.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxviii, 420 p.) : ill.
General Note:
"A New England youth, at Nauvoo and Salt Lake City, mission to the Society Islands, Mormon life in California, pioneering in Beaver, Utah."
Abstract:
In her memoir, and 1870s revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt. Converting to the LDS Church, the Pratts moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, from where Brigham Young sent Addison on the first of the long missions to the Society Islands that would leave Louisa on her own. As a sole available parent, she hauled her children west to Winter Quarters, to Utah in 1848, to California, and, in Addison's wake.
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