Pioneering the West 1846 to 1878 - Major Howard Egan's Diary also thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among Indians; their traits, civil and savage, a on part of autobiography, inter-related to his father. Good photos of early Utah Territory. Howard Egan was born in 1815 in Tullemore Ireland. Family moved to Montreal in 1828. Howard later moved to United States. 1844 became a Mormon and lived in Nauvoo and then Salt Lake City. He was a Pony Express station keeper at Deep Creek and a Pony Express rider. Sons were also riders. Diary begins with move from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City. Later part of book tells various sketches of life in Utah Territory.
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