The history of Louisa Barnes Pratt : being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer

The history of Louisa Barnes Pratt : being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer /

In her memoir, and 1870s revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt. Converting to the LDS Church,...

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Author / Contributor: Pratt, Louisa Barnes, 1802-1880 (Author)
Other authors / contributors: Ellsworth, S. George (Samuel George), 1916-1997
Imprint: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1998.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Pratt, Louisa Barnes, > 1802-1880.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Latter Day Saints > United States > Biography.
Series:Life writings of frontier women ; v. 3.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
  • Introduction
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Author's Preface
  • Part 1: On Joining the Mormons. Youth to Arrival in Salt Lake Valley, September 1848
  • Youth Memoirs, 1802 to September 1825
  • Independent Young Woman Memoirs, September 1825 to April 1831
  • The Years at Ripley, New York Memoirs, April 1831 to June 1838
  • From Ripley, New York, to Nauvoo, Illinois Memoirs, October 1838 to Fall 1841
  • Nauvoo, Missionary Widow Memoirs, Fall 1841 to Spring 1846
  • In the Exodus from Nauvoo to Salt Lake Valley Memoirs, Spring 1846 to September 1848
  • Part 2: On a Mormon Mission to Tahiti. Salt Lake Valley, September 1848 to April 1850 The Mission to the Society Islands, April 1850 to July 1852
  • In Salt Lake Valley Memoirs, September 1848 to April 1850
  • Mission Begun, Salt Lake City to Sacramento Memoirs, 7 May 1850 to July 1850
  • From San Francisco to Tubuai Journal A, Part 1, 26July 1850 to January 1851
  • The Island Tubuai: A Missionary Family I Journal A, Part 2,January 1851 to 18 September 1851
  • The Island Tubuai: A Missionary Family II Memoirs, 15 September 1851 to 1 February 1852
  • The Islands Tubuai and Tahiti: A Missionary Family III Memoirs, February 1852 to 6 April 1852 163 13 Retreat and the Voyage Home Journal B, Part 1, 15 April 1852 to 4July 1852
  • Part 3: On Early California. The San Bernardino Experience, 1852 to 1857 The Break-up at San Bernardino, January 1858
  • San Francisco and SanJose Journal B, Part 2, 4July 1852 to 4 December 1852
  • San Bernardino I Memoirs, December 1852 to April 1856
  • San Bernardino II Memoirs, 14 April 1856 to 8 February 1857
  • San Bernardino III Memoirs, February 1857 to January 1858
  • Part 4: On Pioneer Living in Beaver. Beaver, Utah Territory, 1858 to 1880
  • Fateful Move: San Bernardino to Beaver, Utah Memoirs, January 1858 to January 1859
  • Settling in at Beaver Memoirs, January 1859 toJuly 1860
  • Beaver and a Trip to California Memoirs, July 1860 to December 1864
  • Beaver and Family Memoirs, January 1865 to December 1869
  • A Railroad Trip to East Canada Memoirs, Winter 1870-71 to December 1871
  • A Variety of Activities Memoirs, December 1871 to December 1875
  • Sunset Years at Home in Beaver Memoirs, December 1875 to August 1880
  • Sources
  • Notes
  • Literature cited.

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