A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876 (The Huntington Library Classics)

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John Doyle Lee (1812–1877) was once one of the vital controversial figures of early Mormon history. A fervent convert, he was once adopted by Brigham Young and rose to change into a leading member of the church’s hierarchy. Lee left in the back of a lot of colorful diaries that reveal in fascinating clarity and detail the on a regular basis lifetime of Utah’s pioneer settlers. In them, he describes his close relationship with Brigham Young, his experiences in converting Native Americans to Mormonism, his trials with farming and livestock, his encounters along with his 19 better halves, and his eventual exile to the barren wastelands of Lee’s Ferry.

In the 1950s, five of Lee’s diaries within the Huntington collections were meticulously edited and annotated by historians Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks and published in two volumes by the Huntington Library in 1955 to great acclaim as A Mormon Chronicle, The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848–1876. The University of Utah Press kept the book in print until the 1990s; it has now been reprinted as a Huntington Library Classic with a new foreword by Andrew Rolle, a Huntington research fellow and retired Cleland Professor of History from Occidental College. In his foreword, Rolle discusses the collaboration between Cleland, a leading historian of the Southwest, and Brooks, a notable scholar of Mormon history.
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