Box 1
Contains 80 Results:
Letter, 1952 July 29
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.
Letter, 1952 August 15
Morgan writes of finding a collection of Nauvoo Legion papers and suggests to Brooks that she revise the Dudley Leavitt booklet.
Letter, 1952 August 18
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.
Letter, 1952 November 29
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.
Letter, 1953 January 27
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.
Letter, 1953 February 15
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.
Letter, 1953 March 15
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.
Letter, 1953 April 12
After having looked for a job for so long, Morgan reports having suddenly been offered four.
Testimony Given at the Second Trial of John D. Lee, 1877
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.
Account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Bull Nally Snort, 1894
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.
Newspaper Article, "The Pioneer," San Jose, California, 1877
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.
John Wolcott Phelps Diary Excerpt, 1859
Tells of the Mountain Meadows massacre scene as soldiers saw it two years later and of the story they heard about the attack.
Juanita Brooks Statement
Brooks tells of her decision to find the truth in the Mountain Meadows massacre matter and to tell it to the public.
Correspondence, Warner Brothers, 1951
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.
Correspondence, Juanita Brooks to Everett Cooley, 1969
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.
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1968
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.
The Utah Alumnus, 1965
In this issue, Leonard J. Arrington reviews Juanita Brooks' book, On The Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout.
Newspaper Clippings Concerning Juanita Brooks, 1975-1977
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.
Miscellaneous
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.
Correspondence with Martha Schack, 1968, 1993
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.