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Logan history : [part of a journal] by Ralph Smith

Ralph Smith journal and biography of Thomas Watkin Smith; Ralph Smith journal;

History of the settlement of Logan, Utah by Ralph Smith, Mormon Pioneer, consisting of entries transcribed in typescript from part of his journal. Jan. 4, 1876 -Jan. 28th 1878). Starting with a short history of his English father who converted to Mormonism, Ralph Smith details incidents of his life as a Mormon and pioneer of Cache Valley. This portion of the diary mentions trouble with Indians, building bridges and other necessary structures for the community, working on his own house, surveying and plowing fields, cutting timber, digging ditches, work on the Logan Tabernacle, scattered among news of his family (births, deaths, illnesses, marriage) and his activities for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collection and Archives, Joel E. Ricks Cache Valley history collection, 1847-1955, Coll MSS 46 box 4 fd. 130

1876; 1877; 1878; 1879

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Joel E. Ricks Cache Valley history collection, 1847-1955;

http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/findaid/ark:/80444/xv93618

Ralph Smith handwritten journal, 1878-1897, Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Bound Manuscripts Collection, Coll MSS 238, no. 118, available online at: http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Diaries/id/16572; Ralph Smith journal [transcription of complete journal], Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives, Dewey Collection, 920 Sm64, available online at: http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Diaries/id/5615

Regreening of Cache Valley

http://digital.lib.usu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/regreening/id/374
SCAMSS0046Bx004Fd130.pdf