Scope and Contents Nielson: Volume 1 | Nielson: Volume 2 | Nielson: Volume 3 Frihoff Godfred Nielson was born May 3, 1851, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He emigrated with his parents to America in 1861. His family arrived in Utah in the Captain...

Scope and Contents Extracts from the diaries (1876-1889). The notes from these thirty diaries have been made by George S. Tanner from the originals and are very brief with the subject of most entries listed in the margin. The original diaries are at Brigham Young University. Nielson left Morgan County, January 31, 1876, with three teams and six men. They arrived in Orderville on March 3 where he filled his bed tick with straw. On May 7 they reached Ballinger's camp and drove on over to Lot Smith's camp the same...