The Mormon massacre at Nauvoo / by Dr. Thomas L. Barnes, Ukiah, California, [1867-1897]. 1897.

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The Mormon massacre at Nauvoo / by Dr. Thomas L. Barnes, Ukiah, California, [1867-1897]. 1897.

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Personal narrative of Dr. Thomas L. Barnes to his daughter, Miranda Haskett of Ukiah City, Calif., providing an eyewitness recollection of the murder of Joseph and Hyram [sic] Smith at Carthage, Illinois, and the "Mormon war" in Nauvoo. Barnes's narrative is a photographic reproduction of holograph journal ([43] leaves) and carbon copy typescript (19 leaves) of the same. This is followed by photographic reproductions of a shorter narrative ([4] leaves), a newspaper account of the murder of Jas. Frost and A. Hamburg in Ukiah, Calif. ([1] leaf), autopsy accounts by Barnes describing bullets and balls removed from six members of the Coates family and Elisha Frost ([7] leaves), and the masonic diploma of induction of Barnes into the Petaluma, Calif. chapter, dated 1867.

[43], 19, [13] leaves ; 26 cm.

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