Materials include a photocopy of a typescript of a journal kept by Allen Joseph Stout. Includes a table of contents and index, and begins with an autobiographical sketch written up to 1845, where it turns to more daily entries. Stout writes about his conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Missouri in 1838, his activities in Missouri, the organization of the Danites, the expulsion of the Mormons from Missouri, meeting with Orson Hyde in his disaffected state, his activities in Illinois, his missionary experiences, being part of the body guard to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, being a member of the Nauvoo Police, exodus west, conditions of the Mormons in Iowa, news of the fall of Nauvoo, his life and conditions at Winter Quarters, Nebraska, his journey across the plains in 1851, life in Salt Lake Valley, settlement in Davis county in 1853, making shingles at Mill Creek in Salt Lake Valley in 1855, his removal to Utah County at the coming of Johnston's Army in 1857, his call to the Dixie Mission in 1861, life in southern Utah, his visit to Salt Lake City in 1866, family information, his work in the St. George Temple and reference to people for whom he officiated.