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Minnesota described... News from Utah...



Item # 691714

November 05, 1852

DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Nov. 5, 1852  Page 2 begins with nearly 1 1/2 columns taken up with: "Description Of Minnesota Territory" providing much detail on this Territory that would become a state six years later. Also over a full column taken up with: "An Opium Factory - From Household Worlds" the Charles Dickens magazine. 
Page 3 has a small article: "From Utah" noting: "...The Pawnees were becoming troublesome & had robbed a small party of California emigrants. The Cheyennes were at war with the Pawnees. A party of 70 Mormons were on their way to Independence and Set. Joseph's, on a missionary tour."
A page 2 article: "Smithsonian Institution" offers much detail and includes the "Will of Smithson" noting how his money is to be used.
Four pages, nice condition.

Category: Pre-Civil War