'The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt' (101 Ranch hitched Wild West to showbiz bandwagon)
Denver CO Post; page H02 8Aug99 L2
By Sandra Dallas: Regional Nonfiction Columnist;

Utah State University is publishing 'The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt,' a memoir originally written in the 1870s by a plural wife of Addison Pratt. The memoirs, edited by S. George Ellsworth, tell of her marriage and conversion to Mormonism. The couple then moved to Nauvoo where Addison was called on a mission. While he was gone, Pratt was forced to take her children and leave for the west along with the rest of the Saints.

The memoir also tells of Pratt's lonely life while her husband was on missions and with other polygamous wives. Addison Pratt spent much of his later life in California, while Louisa raised her children in Utah. Towards the end of her life, she became a crusader for women's rights.