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Report on the Mormon colony in Utah...



Item # 602541

January 08, 1850

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 1850 

* Mormons - Mormonism
* Early Salt Lake City, Utah


The front page has: "From The Valley Of Salt Lake" which is an early report on the Mormons at their new home. Bits include: "...states that the Mormon colony at the Valley of the Salt Lake was in a prosperous and happy condition. The crops had been abundant...The Mormons uniformly treated the emigrants in a hospitable manner...The Mormons were forming a new colony in the Sand Pitch Valley about 200 miles south of Salt Lake City..." and much more (see).
Four pages, nice condition.

Category: Pre-Civil War