The history of Louisa Barnes Pratt: being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer

In her memoir, and 1870s revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt. Converting to the LDS Church,...

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Main Author: Pratt, Louisa Barnes 1802-1880 (Author)
Contributors: Ellsworth, Samuel George (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Logan, Utah Utah State University Press 1998
In:Year: 1998
Series/Journal:Life writings of frontier women v. 3
Further subjects:B Pratt, Louisa Barnes (1802-1880)
B United States
B Electronic book
B Mormons (United States) Biography
B Frontier and pioneer life
B Frontier
B Mormon Church
B Autobiographies
B Biographies
B Mormons
B BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Religious
B HISTORY ; General
B RELIGION ; Christianity ; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
B Pratt, Louisa Barnes
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Summary:In her memoir, and 1870s revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt. Converting to the LDS Church, the Pratts moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, from where Brigham Young sent Addison on the first of the long missions to the Society Islands that would leave Louisa on her own. As a sole available parent, she hauled her children west to Winter Quarters, to Utah in 1848, to California, and, in Addison's wake
Item Description:"A New England youth, at Nauvoo and Salt Lake City, mission to the Society Islands, Mormon life in California, pioneering in Beaver, Utah
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-404) and index
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Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
ISBN:0585033668