| Author: Mary Haskin Parker Richards
Creator: Maurine Carr Ward
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 336
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0874212073
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.02092
EAN: 9780874212075
ASIN: 0874212073
Publication Date: May 1996
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Condition: Brand new softcover book! Never been read! ; The forced flight of Mormons from Nauvoo, their arduous trek across Iowa, the rebuilding of community and economic life in transitional villages near the Missouri River, and the crucial part of women in a struggling frontier society are vividly portrayed in these moving and detailed journals and letters. When she began writing, Mary Haskin Parker Richards was twenty-two, a Mormon convert who had traveled from England to the American frontier separately from her parents, and a newlywed just parted from her husband, sent to Britain as a missionary. She lived with her in-laws, an extended family led by Willard Richards, also a leader of the Mormon church. Reorganized in the aftermath of the assassination of Joseph Smith, the church was making its way west under the guidance of Brigham Young, a Richards cousin. Mary Richards was a far less prominent Latter-day Saint, but she observed and portrayed, in intimate detail, the personalities and every
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