This collection contains yearbooks, research materials, books, and newspaper clippings.

MS 22 contains Xerox copies of a news article in the Deseret News Series. This incomplete text is copied from news clippings found in a scrapbook, which was compiled by Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hurst.

Newspapers, newspaper articles and obituaries of early Davis and Weber County, Utah residents. Also, legal papers pertaining to early Weber County pioneers, William and Timothy Kendell.

Elias Gardner was a Utah Mormon pioneer who came to Utah after leaving Nauvoo Illinois. He had multiple wives and many children. His great great grandson was raised in Weber County and went to Weber College. His name is Glade Higgins Lundell.

Overland Journal article, “’The Limitless Plain’: The Great Salt Lake Desert –

The Trail Location and the Trials and Tribulations of the Emigrants While Crossing this Desert

on the Hastings Cutoff, Part I” by Roy D. Tea, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2005. Photocopy.

“John Anson Waite, Senior, An Appreciation” written by Charles R. Mabey,

March 30, 1952. Funeral speech about John Anson Waite, Sr. of Bountiful, Utah, and the pioneer

lifestyle he lived in the 1800s.

Autobiography, “Life of Job Pingree written by Himself at the Age of 88 Years.”

Account of Mormon pioneer, Job Pingree, who emigrated from England and settled in Ogden,

Utah, in 1857. Photocopy of original handwritten account and photocopy of transcript. Oversize

manuscript drawer.

'All Faces West' musical, about the Mormons' journey west and the founding of Salt Lake City. Featuring Ukrainian opera singer Igor Gorin as Brigham Young. Conducted by Roland Parry and narrated by Dean Thueson.