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- catalog abstract "In the summer of 1860, the author of these recollections, then six years old, walked beside her parents' handcart from Florence, Nebraska, to Salt Lake City. The family, converts to Mormonism, had left their comfortable home near Bern, Switzerland, to make the long journey to the Mormon Zion. Nearly eighty years later Mary Ann Hafen published this account of her life, giving an unparalleled, candid, inside view of the Mormon woman's world. Called to go with the Swiss Company to settle the "Dixieland" region of southern Utah--a hot, dry, inhospitable land--Mary Ann's family lived in thatch, dugout, and adobe houses they built themselves. While still hardly more than a child, Mary Ann cut wheat with a sickle, gleaned cotton fields, made braided straw hats for barter, and spun and dyed cloth for her dresses. Always sustained by her faith in the church, she took part in a millenarian scheme that failed--a communal order--and entered a polygamous marriage, raising almost single-handedly a large family. Like Anne Ellis, Elinore Pruitt Stewart, and a handful of other pioneer women of the West, Mary Ann Hafen has left an authentic, matter-of-fact record of poverty, incredibly hard work, and loss of loved ones, but also of pleasures great and small. It is a unique document of a little-known way of life.".
- catalog contributor b1276965.
- catalog coverage "Nevada Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Nevada Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Utah Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Utah Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "1983.".
- catalog date "1983".
- catalog date "1983.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1983.".
- catalog description "In the summer of 1860, the author of these recollections, then six years old, walked beside her parents' handcart from Florence, Nebraska, to Salt Lake City. The family, converts to Mormonism, had left their comfortable home near Bern, Switzerland, to make the long journey to the Mormon Zion. Nearly eighty years later Mary Ann Hafen published this account of her life, giving an unparalleled, candid, inside view of the Mormon woman's world. Called to go with the Swiss Company to settle the "Dixieland" region of southern Utah--a hot, dry, inhospitable land--Mary Ann's family lived in thatch, dugout, and adobe houses they built themselves. While still hardly more than a child, Mary Ann cut wheat with a sickle, gleaned cotton fields, made braided straw hats for barter, and spun and dyed cloth for her dresses. Always sustained by her faith in the church, she took part in a millenarian scheme that failed--a communal order--and entered a polygamous marriage, raising almost single-handedly a large family. Like Anne Ellis, Elinore Pruitt Stewart, and a handful of other pioneer women of the West, Mary Ann Hafen has left an authentic, matter-of-fact record of poverty, incredibly hard work, and loss of loved ones, but also of pleasures great and small. It is a unique document of a little-known way of life.".
- catalog extent "100 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860.".
- catalog identifier "0803223250".
- catalog identifier "0803272197 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860.".
- catalog issued "1983".
- catalog issued "1983.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada".
- catalog spatial "Nevada.".
- catalog spatial "Utah Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Utah Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Utah".
- catalog spatial "Utah.".
- catalog subject "979.2/02/0924 B 19".
- catalog subject "F826 .H14 1983".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Nevada.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Utah.".
- catalog subject "Hafen, Mary Ann, 1854-".
- catalog subject "Mormons Nevada Biography.".
- catalog subject "Mormons Utah Biography.".
- catalog title "Recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier / by Mary Ann Hafen.".
- catalog type "text".