LEADER 03651nam 22006374a 450 001 9910143504403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-26708-X 010 $a9786613267085 010 $a0-87421-485-8 035 $a(CKB)111087028104264 035 $a(EBL)316771 035 $a(OCoLC)476107868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271857 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206546 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271857 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10295579 035 $a(PQKB)10081625 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442733 035 $a(OCoLC)53924717 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC316771 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL316771 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62685 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087028104264 100 $a20021210d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA widow's tale $ethe 1884-1896 diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney /$ftranscribed and edited by Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton ; introduction, notes, and register by Todd M. Compton 210 $aLogan, Utah $cUtah State University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (887 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aLife writings of frontier women ;$vv. 6 311 $a0-87421-557-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 811-830) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Helen Mar Whitney's Family -- 1884 Horace Has Spent a Dreadful Night -- 1885 Oh! How I Feel My Loss-My Widowhood -- 1886 It Seemed Like a Dream That I Must Awake From -- 1887 I Woke Myself Sobbing Three Times -- 1888 This Valley Is Covered with Thick Fog Today-Very Dreary -- 1889 A Beautiful White Cof.n Held the Little Lamb & -- All Pronounced Him Beautiful -- 1890 A "Liberal" Gang of the Scum & -- Boys Passed Up Our Street -- 1891 E. M. Wells Came to See Us, & -- the House, at Evening-Thought It Lovely -- 1892 We've Got to Do Something to Keep Ourselves Out of Debt -- 1893 Mary . . . Gone to Chicago . . . We Can't Afford to Go to the Saltair -- 1894 They Were the Best & -- Firmest in the Cause of Truth -- 1895 She . . . Proposed to Have All Lay Hands on My Head & -- Rebuke My Af.ictions -- 1896 I Couldnt Talk Right-After One Word All Was Mudled -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Register of Names in the Diary -- Index. 330 $aVolume 6, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach BeecherMormon culture has produced during its history an unusual number of historically valuable personal writings. Few such diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their authors' lives and worlds as the diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Because it provides a rare account of the widely experienced situations and problems faced by widows, her record has relevance far beyond Mormon history though. As a teenager Helen Kimball had been a polygamous wi 410 0$aLife writings of frontier women ;$vv. 6. 606 $aMormon women$vDiaries 606 $aMormon Church$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aMormon women 615 0$aMormon Church$xHistory 676 $a289.3/092 676 $aB 700 $aWhitney$b Helen Mar$f1828-1896.$0911643 701 $aHatch$b Charles M.$f1945-$0911644 701 $aCompton$b Todd$f1952-$0598969 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910143504403321 996 $aA Widow's Tale$92041475 997 $aUNINA