(MORMONS) Young Brigham Twenty Fourth of July at the Headwat

Sale 2517 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 3,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(MORMONS.) Young, Brigham. Twenty Fourth of July at the Headwaters of Big Cottonwood. Partly printed invitation, completed in manuscript. One page, 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches; unevenly trimmed, two tape repairs and manuscript address on verso. Salt Lake City, UT, 10 July 1860

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Brigham Young hosted an annual celebration on the Big Cottonwood River in commemoration of the Saints' first arrival in the valley in 1847. This invitation in Brigham Young's name describes the event as "a pic-nic excursion to the lake in Big Cottonwood Kanyon." In recognition of the remote and mountainous location of the event, attendees are implored to be "well-fitted for the trip, with good, substantial, steady teams, wagons, harness, hold-backs, and locks," and "all persons are forbidden to smoke cigars or pipes, or kindle fires, at any place in the Kanyon, except on the Camp Ground." This example was addressed to Elder Charles C. Rich, and a manuscript note reads "You are at liberty to invite such of your friends as you may wish." The Deseret News of 1 August 1860 describes a three-day extravaganza with music, orations, athletic contests, and more. We trace no other examples of this printed circular at auction or in OCLC.