The history of Louisa Barnes Pratt: being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer
Date
1998
Authors
Pratt, Louisa Barnes, 1802-1880, author
Ellsworth, S. George, editor
Utah State University Press, publisher
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Abstract
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.
Description
Edited by S. George Ellsworth.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rights Access
Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.
Subject
Mormons -- United States -- Biography
Frontier and pioneer life
Pratt, Louisa Barnes, 1802-1880