Charles H. Oliphant and Orson Bennett Adams autobiographies, circa 1800s.

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Charles H. Oliphant and Orson Bennett Adams autobiographies, circa 1800s.

Coverless notebook containing handwritten autobiographies of Oliphant and Adams. Oliphant writes of his childhood, meetings with Brigham Young, his work as a horticulturalist, and the Deseret Horticultural Society. Adams' autobiography is written back to front in the same notebook. He writes about his joining the Mormon Battalion along with his wife who worked as a laundress, his settlement in Parowan, Utah, his fighting the Indian Wars, and exploration during the Utah War during which he searched out areas where the Latter-day Saints could retreat.

1 v. (45 p.) : encapsulated.

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