The James Gammell Chronicles

Welcome to The James Gammell Chronicles. The purpose of this blog is to provide a gathering place for the living descendants of James Gammell and his siblings, as well as interested friends and historians. If you are a new visitor, you may want to begin by reading the Preface, posted January 4, 2010, and then proceed chronologically through James' life story.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

The Simpson Expedition to Uinta Valley

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James H. Simpson, 1857 (Wikimedia Commons) Just two months after James Gammell returned home from an expedition to the site of the Moun...

Friday, May 6, 2011

Mountain Meadows Massacre

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Mountain Meadows, Utah (from Wikimedia Commons) The massacre at Mountain Meadows (1857) in southern Utah was the next crimi...

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

District Court Trials of 1858-59

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Two incidents that occurred in 1858 may have had some bearing on James Gammell’s November 14 excommunication from the Mormon Church. On Jun...

Friday, April 22, 2011

Camp Floyd

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Photo by Bary Gammell, March 2011 “Camp Floyd [near Fairfield, Utah] is one of the most miserable, disagreeable and uninteresting...

Friday, March 25, 2011

The Utah War

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Johnston's Army Bugle Corps ca. 1859 at Camp Floyd, Utah (from Signature Books, Salt Lake City) On July 24, 1857, the ten-y...

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Feramorz Little and a Story of Winter Survival

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Feramorz Little Feramorz Little, a nephew of Brigham Young, was elected mayor of Salt Lake City in 1876 and served three consecutive...

Monday, February 21, 2011

Leaving Texas

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Trails West Map by Frederick Smoot see http://www.tngenweb.org/tnletters/usa-west.htm Brigham Young called James Gammell on a mission ...

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Liz: When I have completed my research and writing, I plan to publish this material in a hard copy book that can be passed down to future generations. -Elizabeth Gammell Hedquist, d. of Raymond William Gammell, s. of Horace Blake Gammell, s. of William Andrew Gammell, s. of James Gammell.

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