Charles Rich. His Day Book. An account of my traveling up to the Land of Zion /by Charles Coulson Rich, 1834.

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Charles Rich. His Day Book. An account of my traveling up to the Land of Zion /by Charles Coulson Rich, 1834.

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Rich's diary records the trip with Lyman Wright and Hyrum Smith from Tazewell County, across the Mississippi to the Mormon camp on Salt River. He describes the organization of the men into military units and the outbreak of cholera.

13 p.; 16 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Rich, Charles C. (Charles Coulson), 1809-1883

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Charles Coulson Rich was born on August 21, 1809, in Campbell County, Kentucky. He was instructed in the Mormon faith by Lyman Wight and baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by George M. Hinckle in 1832. In 1838 he married Sarah D. Pea, the first of his six wives. Rich lived in Calfwell County, Missouri, and fought in the Battle of Crooked River. He and his family later settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, where Rich was made a member of the Council of Fifty and served in the Na...