Early Ute and Shoshone Vocabularies

Dimick Baker Huntington’s Ute and Shoshone Vocabulary (1853), 1st ed.

This first edition of Dimick Baker Huntington’s Ute and Shoshone vocabulary was originally prepared and printed as a pamphlet published in the fall of 1853. The front and back covers of the volume are missing, but on page three the title reads, “A Few Words in the Utah Dialect Alphabetically Arranged.” The publication consisted of two vocabularies; bound with the Ute portion of the vocabulary was Huntington’s Shoshone vocabulary entitled “A Few Words in the Shoshone or Snake Dialect.” It was not considered to be a first edition until it was compared word-for-word to the original galley sheets. The vocabulary is housed at the LDS Church History Library.