Journal of Martha Spence Heywood

"Mormon convert at age 33; third wife of polygamist Joseph L. Heywood. The diary describes trek west, the scenery, the people, settlement of Nephi, Utah, Indian troubles, birth and death and hardships of pioneering."@en
"Typescript carbon of Heywood's journal chronicling an 1850 overland trip by Mormons from Kanesville (Council Bluffs) to Iowa to Salt Lake City. Heywood describes the landscape, including famous trail sites such as Independence Rock, and life in the wagon train. She mentions many Mormons by name. The journal continues after her arrival in Salt Lake City and she describes daily social life, often mentioning her husband and his other wife. The diary covers her life in the Salt Lake Creek settlement (later named Nephi) where she built a home and lived as a single Mormon wife supporting herself by cap making and teaching. Heywood's journal is often introspective."@en