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Mormon midwife : the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions / / edited by Donna Toland Smart



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Autore: Sessions Patty Bartlett <1795-1892.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mormon midwife : the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions / / edited by Donna Toland Smart Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Logan, : Utah State University Press, 1997
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (473 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 978/.02/092
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Soggetto topico: Women pioneers - West (U.S.)
Midwives - West (U.S.)
Mormon women - West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
Soggetto geografico: Nauvoo (Ill.) Biography
Altri autori: SmartDonna Toland <1923->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-415) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Mormon midwife  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-87421-327-4
9786613077929
1-283-07792-2
0-585-03024-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910134711403321
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Serie: Life writings of frontier women ; ; v. 2.