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No place to call home : the 1807-1857 life writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, chronicler of outlying Mormon communities / edited by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crosby, Caroline Barnes, 1807-1884.
- Series:
- Life writings of frontier women ; v. 7.
- Life writings of frontier women ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crosby, Caroline Barnes, 1807-1884.
- Crosby, Caroline Barnes.
- Crosby, Caroline Barnes, 1807-1884--Diaries.
- Latter Day Saint pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Latter Day Saint pioneers.
- Latter Day Saint women--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Latter Day Saint women.
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Latter Day Saints--West (U.S.)--History--19th century.
- Latter Day Saints.
- Salt Lake Valley (Utah)--Biography.
- Salt Lake Valley (Utah).
- Middle West--Biography.
- Middle West.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- San Bernardino (Calif.)--Biography.
- San Bernardino (Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (593 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2005.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Caroline Crosby's life took a wandering course between her 1834 marriage to Jonathan Crosby and conversion to the infant Mormon Church and her departure for her final home, Utah, on New Year's Day, 1858. In the intervening years, she lived in many places but never long enough to set firm roots. Her adherence to a frontier religion on the move kept her moving, even after the church began to settle down in Utah. Despite the impermanence of her situation, perhaps even because of it, Caroline Crosby left a remarkably rich record of her life and travels, thereby telling us not only much abo
- Contents:
- Contents; Maps and Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Editor's Notes; Introduction; PART ONE: BEGINNING LIFE'S JOURNEY Youth to Arrival in Salt Lake Valley, January 1807-May 1850; PART TWO: MISSION TO THE SOCIETY ISLANDS To French Polynesia, Return to San Francisco, May 1850-September 1852; PART THREE: UPPER CALIFORNIA Mission San Jose and San Francisco, September 1852-November 1855; PART FOUR: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The San Bernardino Years, November 1855 to December 1857; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 547-550) and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 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:
- 9786613267283
- 9781283267281
- 1283267284
- 9780874215243
- 0874215242
- OCLC:
- 476107706
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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