Moore, John, 1826-1907 to Mary Kelly

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GLC04194.12
GLC#
GLC04194.12-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
February 24, 1859
Author/Creator
Moore, John, 1826-1907
Title
to Mary Kelly
Place Written
Utah County, Utah
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 22.9 cm, Width: 17.8 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Moore comments on local places of leisure: the theater is drawing full houses, and there are two billiard saloons and fifteen or twenty gambling houses. Mentions that "knives and pistols are freely used," and that the town helps advance surgical knowledge. Written at Camp Floyd.

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