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Mormon midwife : the 1846-1888 diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions / edited by Donna Toland Smart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sessions, Patty Bartlett, 1795-1892.
- Series:
- Life writings of frontier women ; v. 2.
- Life writings of frontier women ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sessions, Patty Bartlett, 1795-1892--Diaries.
- Sessions, Patty Bartlett.
- Women pioneers--West (U.S.)--Diaries.
- Women pioneers.
- Midwives--West (U.S.)--Diaries.
- Midwives.
- Latter Day Saint women--West (U.S.)--Diaries.
- Latter Day Saint women.
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Nauvoo (Ill.)--Biography.
- Nauvoo (Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, 1997.
- Utah State University Press, [1997]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-415) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613077929
- 9780874213270
- 0874213274
- 9781283077927
- 1283077922
- 9780585030241
- 0585030243
- OCLC:
- 42854424
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