| Title |
Matthew Caldwell Autobiography |
| Subject |
Indians of North America; Military; Indian women; Indian children; Latter Day Saints; Utah; War; Men; Families; Indigenous peoples--North America |
| Spatial Coverage |
American Fork (Utah) |
| Keywords |
Military; Native Americans |
| Description |
Matthew Caldwell and family traveled to Utah in Aaron Johnson Company (1850) and settled in American Fork, moved to Springville (1853), and later moved to Spanish Fork, where Caldwell served as mayor and was military officer in local Indian wars. Caldwell recounts details of 1845 murder of elderly Mormon, Edmund Durfee, by Adam Snider, one of Caldwell's neighbors, near Green Plains, Illinois. |
| Publisher |
Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| Date |
1822; 1912 |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
Reproduction for publication, exhibition, web display or commercial use is only permissible with the consent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church History Library |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6vh8k3v |
| Setname |
uaida_main |
| ID |
389334 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vh8k3v |
