TY  - GEN
AU  - Walker,William Holmes
TI  - William Holmes Walker papers,
KW  - Smith, Joseph,
KW  - Lauritzen, Lewis E.,
KW  - Walker family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Mormon Battalion
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Utah
KW  - Salt Lake City
KW  - Business enterprises
KW  - Idaho
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Nauvoo
KW  - Missionaries
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Mormon Church
KW  - Mormons
KW  - Overland journeys to the Pacific
KW  - Polygamy
KW  - Real property
KW  - Sawmills
KW  - Colorado
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - History
KW  - 1778-1865
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Iowa
KW  - Kansas
KW  - Nauvoo (Ill.)
KW  - Expulsion of the Mormons
KW  - New Mexico
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research; Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material
N2  - Memoir, diary, notebook, and scrapbook reflecting the history of the Mormon Church and Walker's life as an early Mormon convert and patriarch of the Mormon Church.  In his memoir, Walker describes his years in Joseph Smith's household in the Mormon settlement of Nauvoo, Ill.; Walker's journey to South Africa and his missionary service there; the Mormon emigration from Nauvoo, Ill., to Salt Lake City, Utah following Smith's death in 1844; Walker's service in the U.S. Army Mormon Battalion in Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado; pioneer life, agriculture, and sawmills in Salt Lake City; evasion of federal authorities prosecuting Mormon polygamists during the 1880s; and Walker's life as a business and property owner and head of families in Utah and Idaho.  In his diary, Walker documents his three years as a missionary in South Africa.  The notebook, containing correspondence, copies of orders, and lists of officers, concerns the military preparedness of Salt Lake City and possible arrival of the U.S. military in 1857.  Walker's son-in-law, Lewis E. Lauritzen, compiled the Walker family scrapbook
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007031
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007031.3
ER  -