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Life writings of frontier women, being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer, edited by S. George Ellsworth, Vol. 3

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Life writings of frontier women, being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer, edited by S. George Ellsworth, Vol. 3

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-404) and index

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autobiography

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Life writings of frontier women

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bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

44954125

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edited by S. George Ellsworth

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being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer

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

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History of Louisa Barnes Pratt

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