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Box 1

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Contains 80 Results:

Letter, 1952 July 29

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 8
Scope and Contents

Morgan writes that he is critiquing Charles L. Camp's new edition of The Plains and the Rockies. He is also evaluating pamphlets for Eberstadt's Book Store.

Dates: 1952 July 29

Letter, 1952 August 15

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 9
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Morgan writes of finding a collection of Nauvoo Legion papers and suggests to Brooks that she revise the Dudley Leavitt booklet.

Dates: 1952 August 15

Letter, 1952 August 18

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 10
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Morgan comments on notes of a meeting that George A. Smith and Amassa Layman had with the Council of the Twelve Apostles in 1858 regarding the William H. Dame case.

Dates: 1952 August 18

Letter, 1952 November 29

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Object: 11
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Morgan comments on Ezra Taft Benson's appointment as Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower Cabinet. Also, he writes of the art of writing a biography and that he is still looking for a job.

Dates: 1952 November 29

Letter, 1953 January 27

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 12
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Morgan reports that the Huntington Library is printing other Lee journals and asks Brooks if the Utah State Historical Society can reprint them in its quarterly publication. He also comments on the historical society's efforts to establish an archives department.

Dates: 1953 January 27

Letter, 1953 February 15

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 13
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Brooks is up for reappointment to the Board of State History. Morgan discusses two new Lee letters that have been discovered and also the gap in the Lee journals and diaries in the 1850s.

Dates: 1953 February 15

Letter, 1953 March 15

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 14
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Morgan writes about the W.P.A. records at the Utah State Historical Society Library, and of being asked by Mortenson to catalog them. He asks Brooks to see if there are any jobs available for him at the Huntington Library.

Dates: 1953 March 15

Letter, 1953 April 12

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 15
Scope and Contents

After having looked for a job for so long, Morgan reports having suddenly been offered four.

Dates: 1953 April 12

Testimony Given at the Second Trial of John D. Lee, 1877

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Juanita Brooks papers (1941-1993) is comprised mainly of photocopied letters from Dale Morgan to Juanita Brooks concerning her book, Mountain Meadows Massacre, published in 1950. Also included are some short stories, letters concerning John D. Lee, and an oral history transcript.

Dates: 1877

Account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Bull Nally Snort, 1894

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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Photocopy of a seventeen page handwritten account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre focusing on the part the Indians played in it. A later letter by Brooks identifies this account as having been written by John S. Higbee.

Dates: 1894

Newspaper Article, "The Pioneer," San Jose, California, 1877

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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An article written by Alex P. Murgotten about the families that were murdered at Mountain Meadows and of the journey of the wagon train up to a few days before its destruction. The article also tells of people who left the wagon train at Fort Bridger to take the northern route to California.

Dates: 1877

John Wolcott Phelps Diary Excerpt, 1859

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Tells of the Mountain Meadows massacre scene as soldiers saw it two years later and of the story they heard about the attack.

Dates: 1859

Juanita Brooks Statement

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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Brooks tells of her decision to find the truth in the Mountain Meadows massacre matter and to tell it to the public.

Dates: 1941-1993

Correspondence, Warner Brothers, 1951

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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Correspondence between Juanita Brooks and Finlay McDermid of Warner Brothers Pictures concerning their agreement to make a motion picture based on Brook's book Mountain Meadows Massacre. In the end, Brooks calls the movie deal off.

Dates: 1951

Correspondence, Juanita Brooks to Everett Cooley, 1969

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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The first letter concerns John D. Lee's reinstatement in the L.D.S. Church on May 12, 1961. Attached to the letter is a copy of a letter from Miss Ettie Lee to Brooks concerning the same subject. A second letter tells of Brooks meeting with the Lee family in Phoenix, Arizona. The family asked her to refrain from printing the fact that Lee was reinstated as a member of the church. Brooks refused the request.

Dates: 1969

Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1968

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Juanita Brooks papers (1941-1993) is comprised mainly of photocopied letters from Dale Morgan to Juanita Brooks concerning her book, Mountain Meadows Massacre, published in 1950. Also included are some short stories, letters concerning John D. Lee, and an oral history transcript.

Dates: 1968

The Utah Alumnus, 1965

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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In this issue, Leonard J. Arrington reviews Juanita Brooks' book, On The Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout.

Dates: 1965

Newspaper Clippings Concerning Juanita Brooks, 1975-1977

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Juanita Brooks papers (1941-1993) is comprised mainly of photocopied letters from Dale Morgan to Juanita Brooks concerning her book, Mountain Meadows Massacre, published in 1950. Also included are some short stories, letters concerning John D. Lee, and an oral history transcript.

Dates: 1975-1977

Miscellaneous

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Juanita Brooks papers (1941-1993) is comprised mainly of photocopied letters from Dale Morgan to Juanita Brooks concerning her book, Mountain Meadows Massacre, published in 1950. Also included are some short stories, letters concerning John D. Lee, and an oral history transcript.

Dates: 1941-1993

Correspondence with Martha Schack, 1968, 1993

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Juanita Brooks papers (1941-1993) is comprised mainly of photocopied letters from Dale Morgan to Juanita Brooks concerning her book, Mountain Meadows Massacre, published in 1950. Also included are some short stories, letters concerning John D. Lee, and an oral history transcript.

Dates: 1968; 1993