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This document is a bound typescript of 54 pages covering Lee's mission to Tennessee in the area of Murfreesboro. It includes many acrostics and poems. Lee was challenged to debate by local clergy several times (won each time). He received lodging, meals, clothing, schooling, a horse and funds to return home from convert friends.

This version was made by Juanita Brooks, May 7-14, 1949.

Scope and Contents This is a bound typescript of 95 pages covering Lee's second mission to Tennessee. It includes a description of travel by river boats from Illinois. Shortly after arrival in Tennessee, Lee decided to accompany a group of convert families migrating to Illinois; he returned to Tennessee in the spring of 1843. The journal includes the report of a "vision" and witnessing a phenomenon in the sky, a "silver hemisphere." Shortly before leaving his life was threatened by an irate husband objecting...

Scope and Contents This document is a bound typescript of 30 pages, covering Lee's mission to the area of Frankfort, Kentucky. It includes details of river travel to and from Illinois, notes on sermons and debates and more acrostics. The Mission received word of the death of Joseph Smith and was instructed to return to Nauvoo. The document includes comments on trouble following the death of Smith: the unsuccessful attempt by a Mr. Rigdon to assume leadership of the Church; 100 houses burned; and the use of a...

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This document is an unbound typescript of 64 pages (Fred Collier). It has many gaps in the text of the sort that might be expected if the typist had trouble reading the original handwritten document and many editing markings. It covers the same journal material as the document in Folder 3, but continues beyond that document to provide an account of Lee's temple assignments in Nauvoo.

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This document is a 63 page bound typescript that covers activities in the "Camp of Isreal" with details of preparations and departure for the trip west.

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Scope and Contents This document is a bound typescript with a pencil note "Winter Quarters" in the front. In a location referred to as "Camp of Iseral" the Mormon Battalion was assembled and sent south. Lee, serving as historian and clerk for LDS Church President Young, recorded much discussion about leaving for the west as groups became ready or wait until everyone was provisioned. When it was decided to wait, the encampment was named "Cutler Park." Negotiations were carried on with the Omaha Indians for...

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This document is an unbound typescript of 111 pages (Fred Collier). It is labeled "From Navoo to Winter Quarters." It is a different, perhaps preliminary, copy of the material covered in the preceding two folders, but it includes a few items not in them.

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This document is a bound typescript of 65 pages that covers his journey south to catch up with the main group in mid-September and then accompany them to Santa Fe, New Mexico. This journal includes descriptions of hardships endured by the troops under the command of regular army officers following the death of their original commander.

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Scope and Contents This document is a 90 page bound typescript. Lee was reluctant to leave at a time when his personal affairs were not in order, but was persuaded by LDS Church President Brigham Young to accompany President G. A. Smith and party (about 100 wagons) to found a colony in Iron County, Utah Territory. The journal includes much detail about the trip: amounts of provisions, organization, route taken, location and description of daily encampments, weather, severe difficulties encountered in...

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This document is an unbound, typescript (Fred Collier) covering the same general activity found in Folder 9 above. The first page is missing; some pages are numbered and there are many editorial markings.

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Scope and Contents This response to indictment is directed to the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Territory of Utah, Beaver County. The content challenges the applicability of the law cited in the indictment, the jurisdiction of the court and asks for dismissal. This folder contains a photocopied version for access purposes. The original item has been removed and placed in Reserve. Access must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must...

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This document is a 13-page typed research paper by Timothy J. Flaherty, written while a student at Brigham Young University. Flaherty's research into the records of the two trials and execution of John D. Lee led to his observation that, "The proceedings of the trials, testimonies of eye-witnesses and others involved, and Lee's own personal account indicate that the wrong man was fraudulously tried, convicted and executed."

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This item is a photocopy of an annotated text that deals with Lee's activities and family life in 1847. There is much discussion of the "law of adoption" and the addition of ladies into Lee's families is noted. The document includes an illustration of Emma Batchelder with the notation, ". . . was given to Lee in 1858 by Brigham Young (wife no. 17). Operated Lee's Ferry several years after 1874. Remarried, moved to Holbrook, Arizona, and became a famous frontier nurse."