Abstract The Nathan Davis papers (1847-1956) consist of an account book, a letterpress book, and a brief essay published in the Western Humanities Review. He was raised as a Quaker, but was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850. He and his wife, Sarah Woolley Davis, crossed the plains in Isaac Allred's company, which arrived in Salt Lake City in October 1851. He was sent to the East by Brigham Young in the 1860s to purchase...