Jefferson Hunt
Histories
Note: We hope to add to this collection and include
transcript of each of the histories here. If you have histories to
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copyrights, please contact me.
Jefferson
- Pauline Udall Smith, Captain Jefferson Hunt of the Mormon
Battalion (Salt Lake City: The Nicholas G. Morgan, Sr., Foundation,
1958), 308 pages. Note: Pauline's descendants may be reprinting
this book. As I understand it, they plan to decide this summer at their
reunion.
- Byron R. Merrill and Patrick J. Thurston, "Jefferson Hunt: Senior
Captain of the Mormon Battalion," in David F. Boone, Robert C. Freeman,
Andrew H. Hedges, and Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Regional Studies
in Latter-day Saint Church History: California (Provo, Utah:
Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University,
1998), 57-79.
- "Jefferson, Gilbert and Marshall Hunt," in Kate B. Carter, The
Mormon Batallion (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers,
1956), 63-64.
- "Jefferson, Gilbert and Marshall Hunt," in Kate B. Carter, ed., Our
Pioneer Heritage (DUP, 1956), 4:428–29. Note: May be
identical to previous entry. Year of publication may be off.
- "Captain Jefferson Hunt," in "The Mormons in San Bernardino," in
Kate B. Carter, ed., Our Pioneer Heritage (DUP, 1958),
4:372–78. Note: Year of publication may be off.
- Pauline Udall Smith, "Matilda Nease Hunt, Wife of Jefferson
Hunt," in Kate B. Carter, ed., Our Pioneer Heritage (DUP,
1958), 1:475–79. Note: My notes seem to indicate this is
preceded by an article on Celia Hunt, Jefferson's first wife. Sorry
about that--I'll add the reference later.
- Preston Nibley, "Jefferson Hunt," in Stalwarts of Mormonism
(Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1954), 57-59.
- Jesse A. Udall, Address given at the dedication of tha monument
erected at the grave of Captaion Jefferson Hunt, 2 Oct. 1950, 7 pages
- Ellen Griffiths Pope, "Brief History of the Life of Jefferson
Hunt, 1804-1879" (DUP, 1976), 7 pages
- Richard A. Smith, "Captain Jefferson Hunt of the Mormon
Battalion," Daily Herald, Provo, Utah, Supplement, 16 Mar 1997.
- "History of Captain Jefferson Hunt, Company 'A,' Mormon
Battalion," no author or date listed, in BYU Special Collections, 1976,
6 pages.
- Marie F. Felt, "Jefferson Hunt and the Mormon Battalion,"
flannelboard story no. 92, Instructor, June 1970, 2 page
transcript
- "Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train," in LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen,
Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles, volume 2
of the Far West and the Rockies Historical Series, 1820–1875 (Glendale,
California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954), 59–130; includes
journal extracts or accounts by participants Sheldon Young, Addison
Pratt, James S. Brown, and Sydney P. Waite. Note: See
additional accounts in vol. 15.
- William R. Palmer, "Captain Jefferson Hunt," radio presentation
transcript, 21 Mar 1943, 6 pages; available in SUSU special
collections.
- Irving Stone, Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the
Far West, 1840-1900 (Garden City, New York: Doubleday &
Company, Inc., 1956), 139–43.
- Adison Pratt, Journal Account of 1849 Trip to California, in
Journal History, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9
Oct. 1849.
- Leonette Giles Clark, Sanford Family History (1986),
includes chapters on Jefferson Hunt (pp. 40-41), Gilbert Hunt (pp.
36-38), and John Hunt (39-40).
Family
Note: Pauline Udall Smith's book includes brief biographies
of members of Jefferson's immediate family.
- Ozro Hunt, Stories from the
Life of Joseph Hunt, transcript courtesy of Delia Hawkins
- Alice Oressa Hunt Young, Autobiography,
excerpts related to her father, Joseph Hunt. Ttranscript courtesy of
Delia Hawkins.
- Leonette Giles Clark, Sanford Family History (1986),
includes chapters on Jefferson Hunt (pp. 40-41), Gilbert Hunt (pp.
36-38), and John Hunt (39-40).
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