Journal of Platte D. Lyman, 1879-1894.

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Journal of Platte D. Lyman, 1879-1894.

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Typescript of Platte D. Lyman's journal, kept from December 1879 until February 1894. It describes his involvement with the aftermath of the San Juan Expedition, including the drawing of lots for land, work done on the road through Hole-in-the-Rock, and the naming of Bluff City in 1880. Much of the journal describes Lyman's life in Bluff, where he worked on digging ditches to bring water for a permanent settlement. Lyman also describes his travels through Utah moving freight, driving cattle, visiting relatives, and bringing supplies back to Bluff. The journal includes accounts of his trips across the Colorado to Fillmore and Deseret, to the train station at Durango, and to Montezuma for supplies, as well as later accounts of his travels by rail to Salt Lake City and Provo, and finally Scipio, where he settled in 1885. Lyman frequently refers to the attempted theft of horses by both Indians (including a man named "Navajoe Frank") and "outlaws" (Lyman's brother, Joseph, was shot by horse thieves, which is also detailed in the diary). He also notes that many of the horses in Bluff were inexplicably going blind. Lyman also mentions his founding of a co-op store in Bluff with Jens Nielsen, Kumen Jones, Silas S. Smith, and L..H. Redd; a letter from Erastus Snow telling the Bluff settlers that they could leave the mission if they wished (Lyman notes that the tone of the letter suggested that anyone who left was "destitute of faith"); the overflow of the Cottonwood Wash in March 1884; and the breaking of the Lake Dam in February 1886. Lyman briefly refers to a collection of relics loaned to the World's Fair and sold to the Deseret Museum in 1894.

1 typescript, 113 pages.

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