Lot Smith papers
Correspondence From Brigham Young to Lot Smith concerning an appointment on a mission.
Collection area: Arizona and Southwest
Collection dates: 1854-1890
Collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, biographical and family materials. Correspondence consists chiefly of letters to Lot Smith, while president of the Little Colorado Stake, from Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, and other officials of the Mormon Church regarding colonization in Arizona at Sunset Crossing on the Little Colorado River. Also included are correspondence and commissions relating to Smith's earlier military service; tithing receipts; minutes of a 1889 Mormon High Council meeting concerning Smith; certificates of election to Utah Territorial legislative assemblies; and a 1962 address list of Smith's descendants.
Smith was a Mormon soldier and colonist, and leader of the mission to settle the Little Colorado River area in northern Arizona beginning in 1876.
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