Early Ute and Shoshone Vocabularies

Dimick Baker Huntington’s Ute and Shoshone Vocabulary (1853), 1st ed. galley proofs This document is believed to be first edition galley proofs of Huntington’s 1853 Ute and Shoshone vocabulary publication. The title on these proofs is “A Few Words in the Utah and Sho-sho-ne Dialects, Alphabetically Arranged.” The copies consist of three uncut sheets and 27 numbered cut sheets. These sheets were donated to the LDS Church History Library by a direct descendant of Thomas Bullock.

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Early Ute and Shoshone Vocabularies

Published on Apr 11, 2019

Utah Historical Society

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a number of Ute and Shoshone vocabularies were published in Utah. Dimick Baker Huntington prepared and printed the earliest vocabularies beginning in 1853. Others were subsequently written by the Indian interpreter Joseph A. Gebow, the LDS missionary George W. Hill, and the zoologist and ethnographer Ralph V. Chamberlin. Recently, Huntington’s first edition of the earliest Ute and Shoshone vocabulary, thought to be lost, was discovered in two copies—one published, the other unbound galley proofs. Both rare copies are now housed at the LDS Church History Library. For more information about this edition, see the summer 2015 issue of the Utah Historical Quarterly.

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Early Ute and Shoshone Vocabularies

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Ute and Shoshone Vocabulary 1853

Ute and Shoshone Vocabulary 1853 Proofs

A Few Words in the Utah and Sho-sho-ne Dialects 1854

Vocabulary of the Utah and Sho-sho-ne or Snake Dialetcs 1872

Vocabulary of the Snake or Shoshone Dialect 1859

Vocabulary of the Shoshone Language 1877

Animal names and Anatomical Terms of the Goshute Indians 1908