No place to call home : the 1807-1857 life writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, chronicler of outlying Mormon communities / edited by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth.

"Caroline Crosby's life took a wandering course between her 1834 marriage to Jonathan Crosby and conversion to the infant Mormon Church and her departure for her final home, Utah, on New Year's Day, 1858. In the intervening years, she lived in many places but never long enough to set...

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Main Author: Crosby, Caroline Barnes, 1807-1884
Other Authors: Ellsworth, S. George (Samuel George), 1916-1997, Lyman, Edward Leo, 1942-, Payne, Susan Ward, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2005.
Series:Life writings of frontier women ; v. 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
  • Editors' notes
  • Introduction
  • Youth to arrival in Salt Lake Valley : January 1807 to October 1848
  • Youth to marriage : memoirs, 1807 to October 1834
  • Conversion, baptism to arrival in Kirtland, Ohio : memoirs, November 1834 to January 1836
  • Kirtland to Pleasant Garden, Indiana : memoirs, January 1836 to June 1842
  • Nauvoo, Illinois : memoirs, June 1842 to September 1846
  • Across the plains to Salt Lake Valley : journal, 10 May to October 1848
  • Salt Lake Valley : memoirs, October 1848 to May 1850
  • To French Polynesia ; return to San Francisco : May 1850 to September 1852
  • Overland journey to San Francisco, California : journal, 7 May to August 1850
  • San Francisco to French Polynesia and return : journal and memoirs, 16 August 1850 to 5 September 1852
  • Mission San Jose and San Francisco : September 1852 to November 1855
  • Mission San Jose, California : journal, 6 September 1852 to 20 January 1854
  • San Francisco, Horner's addition : journal, 21 January 1854 to 21 June 1855
  • San Francisco, the city : journal, 22 June to 23 November 1855
  • The San Bernardino years : November 1855 to December 1857
  • San Bernardino, a new home : journal, November 1855 to December 1856
  • San Bernardino-the final year : journal, January to December 1857.