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Record Nr.

UNINA9910134710303321

Autore

Pratt Louisa Barnes <1802-1880.>

Titolo

The history of Louisa Barnes Pratt : being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer / / edited by S. George Ellsworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 1998

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 1998

ISBN

9780874213058

0874213053

9780585033662

0585033668

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 pages)

Collana

Life writings of frontier women ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

EllsworthS. George <1916-1997.> (Samuel George)

Disciplina

289.3/092

B

978.02092

Soggetti

Latter Day Saints - United States

Frontier and pioneer life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A New England youth, at Nauvoo and Salt Lake City, mission to the Society Islands, Mormon life in California, pioneering in Beaver, Utah."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [402]-404) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. On joining the Mormons -- pt. 2. On a Mormon mission to Tahiti -- pt. 3. On early California -- pt. 4. On pioneer living in Beaver.

Sommario/riassunto

Volume 3, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach BeecherIn her memoir, and 1870's 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,