History Of Louisa Barnes Pratt: The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer

by S. George Ellsworth

Overview

Volume 3, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

In her memoir, and 1870s revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt.

Converting to the LDS Church, the Pratts moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, from where Brigham Young sent Addison on the first of the long missions to the Society Islands that would leave Louisa on her own. As a sole available parent, she hauled her children west to Winter Quarters, to Utah in 1848, to California, and, in Addison's wake, to Tahiti in 1850.

The Pratts joined the Mormon colony at San Bernardino, California. When in 1858 a federal army's march on Utah led to the colonists' recall, Addision—alienated from the Mormon Church after long absences—chose not to go. Mostly separated thereafter (Addison died in 1872), Louisa settled in Beaver, Utah, where she campaigned for women's rights, contributed to the Woman's Exponent, and depended on her own means, as she had much of her life, until her death in 1880.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874213058
Publisher:	Utah State University Press
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Series:	Life Writings Frontier Women , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	1 MB

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Foreword Beecher Maureen Ursenbach
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Dramatis Personae
Author's Preface
Part One On Joining the Mormons Youth to Arrival in Salt Lake Valley, September 1848
1 Youth Memoirs, 1802 to September 1825
2 Independent Young Woman Memoirs, September 1825 to April 1831
3 The Years at Ripley, New York Memoirs, April 1831 to June 1838
4 From Ripley, New York, to Nauvoo, Illinois Memoirs, October 1838 to Fall 1841
5 Nauvoo, Missionary Widow Memoirs, Fall 1841 to Spring 1846
6 In the Exodus from Nauvoo to Salt Lake Valley Memoirs, Spring 1846 to September 1848
Part two On a Mormon Mission to Tahiti Salt Lake Valley, September 1848 to April 1850 the Mission to the Society Islands, April 1850 To July 1852
7 In Salt Lake Valley Memoirs, September 1848 to April 1850
8 Mission Begun, Salt Lake City to Sacramento Memoirs, 7 May 1850 to July 1850
9 From San Francisco to Tubuai Journal A, Part 1, 26 July 1850 to January 1851
10 The Island Tubuai: A Missionary Family I Journal A, Part 2, January 1851 to 18 September 1851
11 The Island Tubuai: A Missionary Family II Memoirs, 15 September 1851 to 1 February 1852
12 The Islands Tubuai and Tahiti: A Missionary Family III Memoirs, February 1852 to 6 April 1852
13 Retreat and the Voyage Home Journal B, Part 1, 15 April 1852 to 4 July 1852
Part Three On Early California, The San Bernardino Experience, 1852 to 1857 The Break-up at San Bernardino, January 1858
14 San Francisco and San Jose Journal B, Part 2, 4 July 1852 to 4 December 1852
15 San Bernardino I Memoirs, December 1852 to April 1856
16 San Bernardino II Memoirs, 14 April 1856 to 8 February 1857
17 San Bernardino III Memoirs, February 1857 to January 1858
Part Four On Pioneer Living in Beaver Beaver, Utah Territory, 1858 to 1880
18 Fateful Move: San Bernardino to Beaver, Utah Memoirs, January 1858 to January 1859
19 Settling in at Beaver Memoirs, January 1859 to July 1860
20 Beaver and a Trip to California Memoirs, July 1860 to December 1864
21 Beaver and Family Memoirs, January 1865 to December 1869
22 A Railroad Trip to East Canada Memoirs, Winter 1870–71 to December 1871
23 A Variety of Activities Memoirs, December 1871 to December 1875
24 Sunset Years at Home in Beaver Memoirs, December 1875 to August 1880
Sources
Notes
Literature Cited
Index