Scope and Contents Actual and historical accounts of events at Winter Quarters as Mormons prepared for their trek to Utah, including the subject entry in Andrew Jenson's Encyclopedic History of the church; the Winter Quarters bishops' census; a December 16, 1846, report of the saints' destitution, published in the New York Tribune; "Justice for the Dead," a Deseret News article published July 18,...

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Andrew Jenson's historical series about the saints' stay at Winter Quarters, published in the Deseret News.

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A letter from John Taylor and Parley P. Pratt concerning preparations at Winter Quarters for the trek across the plains; and a lengthy report of church affairs from Wilford Woodruff while Taylor was in exile.

Scope and Contents Materials regarding Ann Hughlings Pitchforth Taylor, one of John Taylor's wives, including the will of her father, John Hughlings; a letter to her niece, Sarah; a letter she wrote to her parents upon her arrival in Nauvoo; a biographical sketch of her daughter, Sarah Barbara Pitchforth Kienke; letters to her sister and brother-in-law, Sarah and Samuel Jackson; and a letter to the editor of the London Times-News, concerning the search for genealogical...

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Index cards briefly chronicling events at Winter Quarters.

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Several short biographies of John Taylor, written by Matthias F. Cowley and H. J. Faust, among others.

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John Taylor's official explanation of his position on the settlement of the Brigham Young estate.

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Correspondence concerning a Coalville, Utah, couple's marital problems, compounded by the husband's desire to take a second wife; and the progress of political events in the church's fight against antipolygamy legislation.

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Revelations concerning organization and succession in the priesthood.

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Excerpts from John Taylor's personal journal about the migration and Mormon Battalion; and his written testimony of modern prophecy as petitioned by Brigham Young.