Winter Quarters
Winter Quarters
edited by Maurine Ward
Utah State University Press, 2002
ISBNs
Cloth: 978-0-87421-207-5
Paper: 978-0-87421-552-6
eISBN: 978-0-87421-302-7 (all)
About the Book
Volume 1, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, edited by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
Mary Richard's journals and letters record a young woman's rare, but richly detailed view of life in the temporary Mormon pioneer communities in Iowa.
About the Author
Maurine Carr Ward, former editor of Mormon Historical Studies and Nauvoo Journal , was an independent family and LDS researcher. She was editor and author of Winter Quarters: The 1846–1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards, for which she received two awards; the first Handcart Prize awarded by the David W. and Beatrice C. Evans Biography Award Committee at Utah State University for a work of merit, by an emerging author, that enriches our understanding of Mormon Country, and the Francis M. and Emily Chipman Award for Best New Book at the Mormon History Association meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
Tags
Life Writings Frontier Women, Mormon women, Latter Day Saint pioneers, Mormon pioneers, Missouri River Valley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), 19th Century, Christianity, Biography, Religion, United States, History
Open Access Information
Label: This book is freely available in digital formats through the Utah State University Library Digital Commons.
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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