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Places and Historical Subject Matter Discussed/Illustrated in this Book (See Full Contents Below): Western Wilds and the Men Who Redeem Them Beadle Illustrated Fine Pictorial Decorative Binding Old West Western Frontier Pioneer Illustrated Antique Hawkeyes Omaha Nebraska Pawnee Otoe Omaha Indians Indian Land Territory Cherokee New Orleans Injun Country Indian Territory Utah Mormons Black Hills Laramie Plains Benton Alkali Desert Bitter Creek Green River Bridger Plains Echo Canon Weber Valley Parley's Canon Great Salt Lake City Griffith Mountain Colorado Geneva New Harmony Indiana Nauvoo Navajo Moquis Brigham Young Wasatch Corinne Promontory Dead Fall Murder Gulch Last Chance Painted Post Great Nevada Desert Truckee Sierras Cape Horn-Sacramento San Joaquin Davisville Chinese Fruit Wine Kansas City Lawrence Wakarusa War Massacre of 1803 Leavenworth Lawrence Galveston Road Wyandotte Atchison Troy St Joseph Missouri Valley Council Bluffs Sioux City Onawa Woodbury California Yosemite San Francisco Stockton Milton Sonora Tuolumne Grove Tamarack Flat Prospect Peak El Capitan Mirror Lake Nevada Falls Cliff House American Fork Canon Beaver City Oklahoma Vinita Cabin Creek Muscogee Creeks Rio Grande Wild Bill Colorado City Stage Coach Pueblo Santa Fe Fort Wingate Tolteccan Cibola New Mexico Arizona Canon de Chelley Moqui Aztecs Zuni Tegua Moqui Oraybe Papago Pimo Coco-Maricopas John D Lee Mountain Meadow Massacre Grand Canon of the Colorado Jacob's Pool Spring-in-Rock Illinois Iowa Camp Floyd Mormon guerrillas Cache Valley Polygamy Murder Soda Springs Denver Lawrence St Louis Bois Brules Chippeways Minnesota pineries Sioux war of 1862 Neetmok Mankato St Paul St Anthony's Falls Minnehaha Sauk Rapids Belle Prairie Black Pine Forest Brainerd North Pacific Railroad Red River Moorehead Fargo St Louis River Klamath River South Umpqua Roseburgh Oregon and California Railroad Willamette River Cape Mendocino Golden Gate Texas Denison Ellis County Navarro Corsicana Central Texas Houston Galveston Celebration of San Jacinto History Description of Texas Massacre of San Saba Missions Magee's expedition Neosho Labette Bender murderers Coffeyville Cattle trails Independence City Elk River Neodesha Colorado Denver Narrow-gauge Railroad Georgetown Caribou Boulder Canon and Falls Pike’s Peak Custer Massacre Little Big Horn Bighorn Hancock's campaign Massacre of Lieutenant Kidder General Sully's campaign Washita campaign * Yellowstone Expedition Rain-in-the-Face Black Hills expedition Sitting Bull Crazy Horse Emigrant Emigration Go West Minnesota Iowa North South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Indian Territory Oregon Great American Desert

WESTERN WILDS, AND THE MEN WHO REDEEM THEM. An Authentic Narrative, Embracing An Account of Seven Years Travel and Adventure in the Far West; Wild Life in Arizona; Perils of the Plains; Life in the Canon and Death on the Desert; Thrilling Scenes and Romantic Incidents in the Lives of Western Pioneers; Adventures Among the Red and White Savages of the West; A Full Account of the Mountain Meadow Massacre; The Custer Defeat; Life and Death of Brigham Young, Etc. By J.H. Beadle, Author of Life in Utah; Western Correspondent Cincinnati Commercial, etc. Published in 1880 by Jones Brothers & Company, Cincinnati. 10” x 7” pictorial binding decorated with gilt. Illustrated. 624 pages.

Condition: GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Bright, handsome exterior as shown in photo. Inner hinges are cracked, binding a bit shaken but all holding together well. Front inner hinge is starting despite an old hingeing tape repair, binding good otherwise. Text is clean and complete, with faint toning in the margins. No torn, loose or missing pages. A nice example of this informative and scarce 1879 western title in a decorative pictorial binding.

DESCRIPTION:

This is WESTERN WILDS, the amazing chronicle of newspaperman J.H. Beadle’s journeys through the fledgling states, cities, towns and territories of the old American West. With his keen eye and journalist's instinct, he records his travels in rich detail and furnishes important information for would-be pioneers and emigrants. His travels take him throughout the entire West and read like a jaunt through a history book. He relates his experiences with Mormons, Indians, miners, missionaries, railroad men, Chinese laborers, scouts, explorers – in short, the whole gamut of colorful characters we associate with the old West.

He writes in the Preface:

In writing this work the author had two objects in view: to interest the reader; and to tell the exact truth about the country west of the Mississippi … The Far West is an immense region, and no one man ever visited all sections of it. I have labored earnestly to give facts in regard to the lands still open to settlement; and I have been very careful to correct certain errors as to soil and climate which I find very common in the East … I have aimed to avoid personalities, but I cannot altogether refrain from harsh expressions as to the misstatements made in many land circulars; or the colored falsehoods of many maps, made “to invite immigration.”

Beadle spent a significant portion of his time out west getting to know the workings of mines and mining camps, Indians, Indian agencies, Indian wars and warriors, and much more. At the same time he became intimately acquainted with the land and all of its wonders. His wanderings took him down the new routes of the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific Railroads, down the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon, through Yellowstone in Wyoming and Yosemite in California, over the Sierra Nevadas, to the shores of California and the “Barbary Coast” of San Francisco. He made careful observations, took copious notes and made it his mission to convey the TRUTH about the western lands to prospective emigrants, often in direct conflict with the rosy descriptions provided by the railroad and land companies hoping to lure new customers to the West.

Over the course of his journeys, Beadle met participants in notorious chapters of western history such as Mormon zealot John D. Lee, one of the leaders of the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre in which Mormons and Indians killed more than 100 members of a party of western-bound emigrants. The author met Lee during an excursion on the Colorado River, where he fled after the Massacre and lived under an alias to avoid arrest. (Lee was afterwards captured and executed).

The author also spent time living and working in Utah, where as a “Gentile newspaper man” he came to know many Mormons and to learn more about the Mormon faith. His experiences there gave him a unique perspective on Mormon/LDS subjects such as polygamy and especially the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Regarding that infamous episode in western history, Beadle states in his Preface:

Some critics will object that the work contains rather more about Utah and the Mormons than the subject warrants … Eight years ago I hunted up, from a score of sources, the facts of the Mountain Meadow Massacre; and, when published, there was a loud outcry that I had overdrawn the picture – “made it a newspaper sensation.” I here present the testimony of witnesses in court, sworn and cross-examined, to show that my narrative of eight years ago was by far too mild; that in every charge then made against the Mormon Church I was within the truth ...

WESTERN WILDS is Beadle’s personal record of his years of travel and residence in the new States and Territories of the West – where he went, what he did, what he saw and what he thought about it. 624 pages of wild adventures, colorful characters, keen observations and plain dealing.

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CHAPTER ONE - THE HAWKEYES: I make a start * Fair Iowa * Yankee, Hoosier, Buckeye, and Scandinavian * The Aryan wave * Hoosier grammar * Sorrows of the non-resident land-owner * "The walled lakes" * Greatness of the Border States * "Hoss high, bull strong, and pig tight" * The 'hoppers * "Omahawgs" and "Omahens" * " Milkville" and "Bilkville" * Rural Nebraska * Agricultural wealth * Pawnees, Otoes, Omahaws * The Bedouin instinct * “Go West"

CHAPTER TWO - A WESTERN CHARACTER: Unsung heroes * Scenes in Southern Kansas * "Shuck up" * "Fevernager" * My host's story * He leaves Tennessee for New Orleans * "Chawin' rags for a papermill" * Up into the Cherokee country * Another run to New Orleans * Walk home through the "Injun" country * Murder of Mcintosh and others * War between the Rossites and Ridgeites * Exposure and fever * Delirium * Rescued by the "little Cherokee girl" * Home again * Joe and Myra * More trouble with the Cherokees * Journey to Iowa * In danger from the "Danites" * Mrs Joe's "tantrums" * Captured by the Hawkeyes * Interview with Judge Lynch * Horrible murder of Miller and Liecy * Hanging of the Hodges * Terrible times on the Half-breed Tract * The California excitement * Start from Independence * Troubles on the way * Danger and death on the great desert * Among the gold hunters * More murders * Return to Tennessee * The great war * Death of the boys * Removal to Indian Territory * "Won't there be peace while I live?" * Rest at last

CHAPTER THREE - THE JOURNEY TO UTAH: Flush times in Omaha * Some characters * Will Wylie's escape * "Seen the Elephant" * "A neck-tie sociable" * "Coppered on the jack" * Apostate Mormons' caravan * Up the slope to Cheyenne * " Dirty Jule's" * The Plains * " Magic City" * Passage of the Black Hills * Virginia Dale * Laramie Plains * Benton * Alkali Desert * Evanescent "cities" * Bear River City * Battle with the roughs * More Mormons * "Catfish with legs" * Horrors of Bitter Creek * Green River * Bridger Plains * The author a mule-whacker * Grandeur of Echo Canon * Weber Valley * Up to Parley's Park * Down Parley's Canon * First view of the Salt Lake * " City of the Saints" * I become a Gentile sinner

CHAPTER FOUR - GEFFROY'S TRIALS: On Griffith Mountain, Colorado * "Are we the authors of our own destiny?" * Geffroy's narrative answers * Beautiful Geneva * Frenchy fancies vs.German phlegm * A young enthusiast * Hunting the Brotherhood of Man * At New Harmony, Indiana * Failure of Communism * At Nauvoo * At Communia * On the plains * Enlist with the Texan patriots of '43 * Bright pictures * Stern realities * " The River of Souls" * The tierras templadas * In the Wild Canon * Posted on the Taos Trail * Doherty’s description * Another frightful march * Down to the Cimarron * Another trial of the desert * Night attack on the Mexican camp * Victory, followed in turn by flight * Loss of the horses * Geffroy and friend go after them * Surrounded by Mexicans * A dash for life * Headlong leap into the chasm * Oblivion, or death?

CHAPTER FIVE - DOLORES: Return to consciousness * Laid up in the cabin * Love and convalescence * The captured Americans * Dolores' plan * The parting * Gomez and the Pueblos * Halt at Jemez * Meeting the Navajoes * A land of wonders * Among the Moquis * A simple, civil, and unwarlike race * A race without envy or covetousness * Joyful meeting with Dolores * Los Diabolos Gringos * Flight for the north * Lost on the desert * The horrors of thirst * Another day of anguish * Life in the rock * "With our lips pressed to the rock we drew new life" * Hope revived * Pursuit by the Mexicans * Wounding and death, of Dolores * Agony of Geffroy * Enlists as a soldier * The war in Mexico * Revisits Switzerland * 1848, the year of Revolutions * In the army of Baden * Capture and long imprisonment * Liberty, when hope was dead * Return to the Far West * "The Brotherhood of Man comes not by spasmodic struggles, but by steady toil"

CHAPTER SIX - POLYGAMIA: I meet Brigham & Co * Topography of his kingdom * I reside there a year * And become a hated Gentile * Mormon notabilities – Brigham, Orson Pratt, Hooper, Geo A Smith * "The One-eyed Pirate of the Wasatch" * Polygamy, Bigamy, Brighamy, Monogamy, and other gamies * Utah politics * Noted Gentiles * Liberal Mormons * Credulous skeptics * "No trade with non-Mormons" * Consequent troubles * Persecution of dissenters * Journey to Sevier * Beauties of Pine Gulch * Return to "Zion" * "There's a better day coming" * Religious lying * Perjury "for Christ's sake"

CHAPTER SEVEN - THE PACIFIC SLOPE: 'Westward again * Corinne * Promontory * Dead Fall, Murder Gulch, Last Chance, and Painted Post * "Do me a favor: shoot me through the head!" * Fine morality of the gamblers * The Great Nevada Desert * "Sinks" * Up the Trnckee * State Line * Down the Sierras * Wonders of Cape Horn-Sacramento * " San Joeykwinn" * Or San Wahkeen? * In Yolo County * Davisville * Chinese and silk culture * Tides * Fruits and wine * Does it supersede whisky? * The California seasons * "Frisco" * Chinese Theater * The tragedy of Rip Sah * Buddhist ceremonies * A gloomy sort of religion * "Top-side Josh" * The devil-drive * "Chinaman like Melica man"

CHAPTER EIGHT - TWO YEARS OF CHANGE: Utah and trouble * "Mormon hospitality" * The author mobbed and badly hurt, but recovers rapidly * Healing air of the mountains * Rich mineral discoveries in Utah * The Gentiles take heart * The Emma Mine * I go to Washington as a lobbyist * And don't like it * Further travels in Utah * Polygamy again * Rev J P Newman shows that there are but thirteen polygamists mentioned in the Bible * And hundreds of good monogamists * Orson Pratt comes back at him * High times in the Tabernacle * Some of the nasty features of polygamy * Such as incest and indecency * A village composed of Taylors * And one made up of Winns * General view of the Territory * And of the Far West

CHAPTER NINE - THE MISSOURI VALLEY: Kansas City, a modern Rome * We look at it, but do not invest * The " Land of Zion" * Lawrence * "The Wakarusa War" * The Massacre of 1803 * The Athens of the West * Our journey southward -- The Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Road * Ottawa * Western Yankees * "Brother K 's blooded mare' * " Buffalo stamps" * A progressive country * Fertility of Allen and Neosho counties * An incorrigible old man * Cherryvale * The beautiful mounds * The social Kansian * " Sna-a-a-kes!" * Northward to Leavenworth * Quindaro Chindowan * "A second Babylon" * Wyandotte * Atchison * Troy * St Joe * Up the Missouri Valley * Council Bluffs * Omaha * On northward * Sioux City * Onawa * Woodbury * Staging to Yankton * Dakotiane, French, Scandinavians, and Bohemians * "Woman's Rights: "to do as much work as she can” * The gentle savage * Iapi Oahye! * " Portable talk" * Northern Dakota * Western Dakota * We leave suddenly for California

CHAPTER TEN - THE WONDERS OF CALIFORNIA: All aboard for Yosemite! * From chilly "Frisco" to melting Stockton * By rail to Milton * Hot drive among the foot-hills * Copperopolis * The broiling stage; air dead calm; thermometer 100° * In the cool grove at last * The vegetable wonders of the world * A tree thirty-two feet thick * " Father and Mother" * " Husband and Wife," 200 feet high * " Uncle Tom's Cabin" * How came they here? * California names * Over Table Mountain * "Truthful James" * Old mining towns * Sonora * Chinese Camp * Garrote * The Tuolumne Grove * Tamarack Flat * Reminiscences of the "strong-minded" * First view of Yosemite * Prospect Peak * The terrible descent * A fall of 2,667 feet * El Capitan, Tu-toch-ah-nu-la * A reverie on Cosmos * Mirror Lake * Reflected glories * The climb to Nevada Falls * Down by Vernal Falls * The sublime and beautiful * J M Hutchings, the pioneer * "Spirit of the Evil Wind" * "Great Chief of the Valley" * Down hill to San Francisco * Climate of the Coast * A day at the Cliff House * Poluphloisboio Thalasses * Regretful good-bye to the Pacific Coast

CHAPTER ELEVEN - UTAH ARGENTIFERA: Gentiles after silver, Mormons after the Gentiles * "Revelations" and prospecting * Up Little Cottonwood * The silver lodes * Snow-slides * 12,000 feet above the sea * Bald Peak, and a view of 20,000 square miles * Big Cottonwood Canon * The great fire * American Fork Canon, the Yosemite of Utah * Mormon farmers vs. Gentile mountaineers * "The Republic of Tooele" * East Canon and horn silver * Chloride Cave * Dry Canon * Wild times in the West Mountains * A Goshoot feast * I start to Dugway * And get lost on the desert * Komteen * A lonesome night * Danger and weariness * Ninety miles travel in twenty-seven hours * Independence Day on Great Salt Lake * "No gulls in Utah before the Mormons came" * Sailing on the Lake * Mines in southern Utah * Beaver City * Mineral wealth of the Territory * Shall we annex Utah to Nevada?

CHAPTER TWELVE - A CHAPTER OF BETWEENS: Joe Allkire talks * Valley tan whisky calls up reminiscences * " A bad streak o' luck" * "Sod-corn barefooted" * Millerites * ''Misses Chew splits the choir" * The grand dog-fight * Which broke up a town * "That yaller and spotted dog" * Abraham and the preacher clinch * " No Morgan-killers need apply" * "The head abolishinists" * Si Duvall's luck * Union Flats becomes very flat * Other reminiscences * Men who had tried many fields * Story of the mountaineer * Will and Bob McAfee * Camp in Arkansas Canon * The storm, and falling timber * Dreadful alternative of the unwounded brother * He "relieves" the other's torture * And dies of grief and remorse

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - OKLAHOMA: A new route to the Pacific * I enter the Indian Territory * Vinita * " White Cherokees" * Cabin Creek * Mixed bloods * "It comes back on 'cm" * Christian Indians * Muscogee * Also Muskokee * The Creeks at home * Ala-bah-ma: "Here we rest" * Natchees and Hitchitees * An Aboriginal Democracy * House of Kings and House of Warriors * Pahly hohkohlen * Tallahassee Mission * The Muskokee in love * "Beautiful River" * Brad Collins and his gang * Oklahoma vs. Okmulkee * Red hot on temperance * In the Choctaw country * Tandy Walker * Among the Cherokees * The Big Rattling Gourd and other politicians * Cherokee history * Civilized Indians of the Territory * What shall we do with them?

CHAPTER FOURTEEN - JOURNEY TO THE RIO GRANDE: Northward again * Out on the Kansas Pacific * A beautiful country * Ellsworth * Carnival of crime in 1867 * "Wild Bill" * J H Runkle * "Rake Jake" * "Dad Smith" * "Shall we have a man for breakfast? " * Heroic, but murderous * Bisons and business * Arrival at Denver * Rest and enjoyment * Southward by the narrow-gauge railway * The Divide * Timbered region * Colorado City * Take stage-coach * Pueblo * Night in the stage * Cocharas * The senoritas * Neetmok route * Another day of staging * Trinidad * The Raton Mountains * Down upon the New Mexican side * Wild scenes * Maxwell's Ranche * Passage of the Rocky Ridge * A snow storm and a grizzly * Down to Santa Fe * Disappointed with the city * A queer old town * High-sounding names * Indian troubles * Starting for Fort Wingate * La Bajada * Quiin Sabef * Pueblos Indians * Valley of the Rio Grande * Albuquerque * The gente fina * The "Greasers" * Will they ever amount to any thing?

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - TOLTECCAN: The oldest inhabitant * Alvar Nunez, etc, traverses New Mexico * What he saw and how he lied about it * "The Seven Cities of Cibola" * Conquest of New Mexico * Revolt of the Pueblos * Second Conquest * High-toned grandees * Caste * Sad (?) occurrence * Should the Territory be made a State? * Citizen Indians * Queer old customs * Parental authority * Enterprise * The universal burro * We cross the Rio Grande * And enter on the desert * The awful, the unutterable desert * Sufferings from thirst * Reach "Hog River" * Dead Man's Canon * Another desert * Oasis of El Rito * Degenerate Spaniards * Pueblo de Laguna * An Aztec relic * El Cubero * "Women's Rights" * Mala Pais * Agua Azul * The extinct volcano * Drive to Fort Wingate * My companion comes to grief * Ojo del oso * Zuni * Stinking Springs * The Puerco of the West * Down to Fort Defiance

CHAPTER SIXTEEN - WILD LIFE IN ARIZONA: The gathering * Canon Benito * Handsome Indian girls * Navajo patience * A mixed tongue * "Slim-man-with-a-white-eye" * El-soo-see En-now-ln-kyh * "Big Quill" * Murder of Agent Miller * Sorrow of the Navajoes * Their kindness and courtesy * Off for a trip * My Navajo guide * "Tohh kloh no mas" * Descent into Canon de Chelley * Wonders on wonders * The "cliff cities" * Moonlight in the canon * Out again on the desert * An awful passage * The hot alkali plains * Thirst and suffering * " Hah koh, Melicano!" * Approach to the Moqui towns * Amazement of the inhabitants * The city set on a rock * The strangest people in the world * Chino and Misiamtewah * The Moquis welcome me gladly

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - AMONG THE AZTECS: Topography of Arizona * A region of hot sands and barren mountains, of fierce savages and gentle Indians, of rich mines and wild, forbidding wastes * The Mesa Calabasa * Zunis, Teguas, Moquis, Oraybes, Papagoes, Pimos, and Coco-Maricopas * Rapid decay of the wild tribes * Noble Navajoes * Their native shrewdness, industry and bravery * Who are they? * Aztecs? * Barboncito * Ganado Mucho * Their handiwork * Their temperance and endurance * Life at Moqui * "Ho, Melicano, messay vo!" * Jesus Papa * Moqui theology * The "white Indians" of Arizona * Ruins * Aztec or Toltec? * Comparison with mound-builders' remains * And South American Ruins * Only a theory * Which no one is bound to accept

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - FROM MOQUI TO THE COLORADO: Two hundred miles of desert * Aboriginal mail service * A new guide * His nelsoass * Good-bye, Chino! * Journey to the new Navajo camp * "Damn Espanol, shteal mooch" * On the sandstone mesa * A pleasant party of four * " Todos muertos, pero mas Apaches!" * Another sandstone waste * First view of the river, 5,000 feet below us * Getting down the cliff * Water and salts * At the river at last * No boats * Perilous passage * The white woman -- "My God, stranger, did you risk your life to swim that river? " * The Mormon convert's story * Three days at the ferry * Parting from my Navajo friends

CHAPTER NINETEEN - A STARTLING INTERVIEW: I meet with a surprise * "Major Doyle" proves to be John D Lee * And tells me the story of his crime * He describes the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre * Character of the murdered emigrants * They are charged with being enemies of the Mormon people * The latter incensed * And determined on revenge * Did they poison the spring? * Or murder friendly Indians? * Outrage on Mrs Evans * The Mormon Council * Death of the emigrants determined upon * The closing tragedy * Lee's excuses and subterfuges * His further history * A story horrible enough for the most inveterate sensationalist * I bid the Lees good-bye * And with no regrets * Grand Canon of the Colorado * Ride to Jacob's Pool * Thence to Spring-in-Rock * Lonely camping out * My solitary journey to Kanab * The Pi-Ede band of savages * "Toh, agua, water!" * Rest at Kanab * Jacob Hamlin * The Powell party * On the desert again * Pipe Springs * Our bishop landlord * Another ride over rock and sand * Gould's Ranche * Virgin City * Toquerville * "Mormon Dixie" * At Isaac Haight's * Kanarra * Another misfortune * Ride to Parowan * Little Salt Lake * Arrive at Beaver * Staging thence to Salt Lake City

CHAPTER TWENTY- THE FAIR APOSTATE: English homes * Radical and Conservative; Chartist and Monarchist * Coming of the Mormon missionary * Simple lives changed * Voyage to America * The hand-cart emigration * Frightful sufferings on the plains * Death on all sides * Starved, frozen, torn by the wolves * The Old Radical finds the Brotherhood of Man * A young hero * Willie Manson concludes to go West * Journeys thro' Illinois and Iowa * Meets a queer party * The year 1857 * His sufferings * At Camp Floyd * Goes to the city * Sickness and fever * A familiar face by his pillow

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - THE FAIR APOSTATE, CONTINUED: Hot times in "Zion" * "The Reformation" * Arrival of the hand-cart emigrants * An epidemic madness * Horrible reign of lust and fanaticism * United States officials driven out * Mormon war begun * Skill and daring of Mormon guerrillas * But the Gentile army enters the Valley * 30,000 Mormons move south * But return and submit peaceably * Willie Manson's new friends * More apostates * John Banks and Thomas James * Little Marian becomes Miss Marian * And Manson does not understand the change * In his perplexity he abcxs hears doctrine * And reproof * But hardens his heart * A new prophet * Joseph Morris * Morrisite Camp on the Weber * Attacked and broken up by the Brighamites * Murder of the women * Barbarous killing of Morris and Banks * Flight of Thomas James * Exhausted, he lies down to die * Beatty and Manson off for Montana * Relieve James * War with the Bannocks * Desperate encounters * Four years amid the gold fields * Manson becomes a man! * The friends hear that all is peace in Utah * And together return to "Zion"

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - THROUGH GREAT TRIBULATION: Bright days in Cache Valley * A brother and a sister restored to fellowship * Thomas James is again happy with Christina * But he is a bishop's rival, and that means danger * "Blood atonement" * A nameless horror * The man becomes a creature * Manson perplexed * "Keep your eye peeled; this is a queer country" * Red-hot discussion of polygamy * News from James; which is no news * Anti-Gentile Philippies * Manson meets Marian * A good outcome at last * Astonishing conduct of Elder Briarly * Mystery added to mystery * Another Gentile panic * Murder of Brassfield * Outrages on Gentile settlers * Murder of Dr Robinson * Flight of the Gentile pre-emptors * Sad fate of Thomas James * Bishop Warren has his reward * But heaven is kinder to Christina than her own people * She finds release in death * Briarly flies from the Territory * Marian and Manson * Their Iowa home * But Utah is the home of the soul * And President Grant has given us hope * Hank Beatty's crime * Death of his wife * The Mansons return to Utah * As their troubles ended with a marriage, their future state is left to faith

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - SWINGING ROUND CIRCLE: Off for Soda Springs * A land of wonders * A chemical laboratory ten miles square * Soda by the ton, to be had for the taking * The "Morrisites" again * A little run eastward * Denver * Lawrence * St Louis * A day in Nauvoo -- "Destined capital of a religious empire" * To the new North-west * Yankton * Assassination of Secretary McCook * Steamboating on the Missouri * Sioux City again * Enterprising, but sensational * Off for Minnesota * We enter the Garden State

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - MINNESOTA: Reminiscences of 1859 * The Bois Brules * Full-blood Chippeways * Minnesota pineries * The Red Napoleon of the North-west * " Hard times" in 1859 * I live on corn-bread, hoc corn, and cultivate muscle * Better times * Sioux war of 1862 * Blue-earth County * Mankato * Journey to St Paul * Topography * St Anthony's Falls * Minnehaha * Journey to Sauk Rapids * Staging thence northward * Belle Prairie * Catholic outposts * Crow Wing * Black Pine Forest * Brainard * Breaking up the Sabbath * Chippeway dance * Out on the North Pacific Railroad * The barren region * Down to Red River * Moorehead * Navigation to British America * Fargo * Westward by construction train * Dakota's Salt Lake * Jimtown * Eastward again * The lake region * Scenery on the St Louis River * Among the Scandinavians' * " Postoff" * Jay Cooke's Banana Zone

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - THE WAY TO OREGON: "Let us try the web-feet" * Through Iowa * Westward from Omaha * Changes of four years * My fourteenth trip over the Union Pacific * More trouble in Utah * Across the Sierras again * Up the Sacramento * Gen John Bidwell's ranche * Grapes, figs, apples, and lemons in November * Reading * Walk-in Miller's squaw * His life in jail * Great forests of the upper Sacramento * Six Cailloux * "Sleeping Dictionary" * Yreka * Over the Mountains * Klamath River * Cow Creek * South Umpqua * Roseburgh * Oregon and California Railroad * Down the Willamette * "Beaver Lands" * In Portland * "Such a fog!" * "John Chinaman" * First-class funerals needed * "Web-feet" maidens * Shall we go home by sea? * Down the Columbia by steamer * "High sea running" * "Oh, my head, my stomach! O-o-o! " * The boat goes on end * The land-lubbers fall on all sides * Better weather * "On an even keel" * Beauties of the Pacific * Cape Mendocino * The Golden Gate * Once more on terra firma

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - LAS TEXAS Y LOS TEJANOS: "G T T" * Bad reputation * "You may go to hell, and I'll go to Texas" * The author finds things improved * Through the Indian Territory * Red River * Denison * "North Folk" * Healthy region * "The spiral maginnis" or "De meninjeesus" * At Sherman * Down Main Trinity * Travels in Collin County * The Cotton Belt * In Ellis County * Navarro and Corsicana * Insects and other sects * "A thousand and forty-four legs" * Through Central Texas to Houston * Buffalo Bayou * Delightful ride to Galveston * Celebration of San Jacinto * "Brave Texan, bravest man in the South, sab!" * Delights of the Galveston beach * Beauties of the island * Up country * The land of border romance * Bob Rock and his brown mestiza * Hon "Shack" Roberts * Some political notes * A tolerant and liberal State

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF TEXAS: La Salle * First Settlement on the coast * Origin of the border question * Murder of La Salle * The murderers murdered * The missions * Indios reduce * "Reduced" by prayer and fasting * The "men of reason" * War between the French and Spanish * Massacre of San Saba * Decline of the Missions * Louisiana ceded to Spain * Better times in Texas * Louisiana ceded back to France * The border question again * The United States takes a hand * Fearful murders and robberies * Magee's expedition * Desperate battle * Magee kills himself * Surrender of his army * They are barbarously massacred by the Spaniards * Revolution in Mexico * More trouble in Texas * Moses and Stephen Austin * Oppression of the Texans * Revolution * Heroic defense of the Alamo * Fannin's command butchered * Glorious victory of San Jacinto * Independence and subsequent events * Descriptive sketch of the State

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - KANSAS REVISITED: Through the new counties * "Hard times" * The Grangers' War Woman suffrage * Allen County * Neosho * Labette * The Bender murderers * Their real fate * Coffeyville * Ten square miles of cattle! * "Not a good year for stock, either" * The cattle trails * Montgomery County * Kansas politics * The Osage diminished Reserve * Independence City * Elk River * Wilson County * Neodesha * Kansas cotton * Into the mound region * Westward, ho! * Among the flint hills * Southwestern Kansas * General view of the State

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - COLORADO: Westward again * 1874 * Disappearance of the buffalo * Reach Denver * A long rest * Narrow-gauge for Georgetown * The sublime and beautiful in Clear Creek Canon * Floyd Hill * Stage to Idaho Springs * To Georgetown * 2,000 miners * But where are the women? * High climbs * Cool retreats * Independence Day on the summit of the Rocky Mountains * Snow banks and iced brooks * Beauties of the upper parks * Drive to Gray's Peak * The September storm * Climb through snow and ice * 14,400 feet above the sea * And a fearful snow-storm in summer * Down to Denver * Up to Caribou * Wild beauty of Boulder Canon and Falls * The rich silver lodes * On the plains again * Ride to Greeley and Evans

CHAPTER THIRTY - THE CENTENNIAL STATE: Coronado * Mythologic age of Colorado * Pike sees his Peak * The hunters and trappers * Bloody encounters * Love, treachery, and retribution * Gold! * The great rush * "Pike's Peak" * Society takes shape * Miners' laws * People's courts * Attempts at a Territory * Successful at last, the 38th State * Our life in Georgetown * Griffith Mountain * "The Holy Cross" * Rich silver mines * The Dives-Pelican Lode * Curiosities of mining * "Sam Wann," or Juan * Silver by millions * Southern Colorado * The White Desert * Possibilities of the new State

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE - THE MORMON MURDERERS: Another year in Utah * Capture of John D Lee * His awful crime * Mormon madness in 1857 * Assassination of Parley P Pratt * The doomed emigrants pass Salt Lake City * Are harassed as they go south * Attacked and besieged * Surrender to Lee and others * A plot hatched in hell * The demon Higby gives the signal * Fearful scenes of blood * One hundred and thirty-one Americans fall victims to Mormon malice! * And the Governor of Utah "never heard of it!" * Brigham certifies to a falsehood * And swears to another * Strange chain of events leading to discovery * Lee brought to trial * Shameful farce of selecting jurymen * A black case made out * Brigham's remarkable deposition

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO - GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?: Astonishing conduct of Mormon jurymen * They refuse to convict * But the Mormon Church can not afford to sustain Lee any longer * They decide to give him up * Another trial in 1876 * And a Mormon jury convict Lee * Sentence pronounced by Judge Boreman * Appeal * Date of execution postponed to March, 1877 * Executed upon the very spot of his crime * Lee's final and complete confession * His last words * His peaceful and heroic death * Was Brigham Young guilty? * Brigham's apologists * Captain John Codman, Geo Q Cannon, Gen Thomas L Kane

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE - SPIRITUAL WIVES AND CARNAL HUSBANDS: Does polygamy pay? * Why it engenders poverty * Utah the poorest of the Territories in funded wealth * Polygamy engenders deceit * Dissipates social energy * And naturally goes along with a theocracy * Slavish submission of the Mormon laity * The "Revelation" * And the falsehood that followed it * Fourteen printed and sworn denials * Frightful perjury * Primitive marriage * Monogamous animals * Monogamy the rule with all the higher organizations * Polygamy and Polyandry * Substantial numerical equality of the sexes * Other evils in Utah * Duty of Congress * Shall we have a Mormon State?

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - THE NOBLE RED MAN: The tragedy of June 25th, 1876 * Sorrow of the nation * Sketch of Custer's life * Hancock's campaign of 1867 * Hancock outwitted by the hostiles * Custer's first Indian fight * "Circling" * Massacre of Lieutenant Kidder and party * Horrid scenes * General Sully's campaign of 1868 * Custer's Washita campaign * Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 * Murder of Honzinger and Baliran * Arrest of Rain-in-the-Face * He escapes and swears vengeance against Custer * Black Hills expedition of 1874 * Gold in the Hills * Events of 1875 * Campaign of 1876 against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse * Custer in disgrace at headquarters * The miserable Belknap affair * Three columns converge on the hostile camp * The bloody ending * Close of the campaign * Sitting Bull goes to Canada, and Crazy Horse to the happy hunting grounds * Perhaps

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE - WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN THE TERRITORIES: "The coming woman" * Has she come in Utah and Wyoming? * Woman suffrage * A crime in Utah; a fraud in Wyoming * A trick of the priesthood * Propositions by Senator Pomeroy and Representative Julian * Folly of such schemes * Women vote * And always for the Church as against liberty * No Mormon women ever voted for free schools or free speech * Utah law -- no marriage act and no dower law * Wyoming * Woman suffrage adopted as a joke * How it works * No difference observable * Statistics of saloons and "social evils" * Where is the "great moral reform?" * No women in office * Women juries * Why they were discontinued * Does the good or evil predominate?

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX - THE DEAD PROPHET: Brigham dies * Charity demands only the truth * His history * "Hard working Brigham Young" * The Kirtland folly * Brigham carries a level head * Building up Nauvoo * Martha Brotherton "blabs" * And the Prophet and Apostle get into hot water * "Spiritual wifery" introduced * "Persecution" * Death of Joe Smith * Brigham as head of the Twelve Apostles * Journey to Salt Lake Valley * Trouble with the United States * Brigham as a marrying man * His wives, Mary Ann, Lucy, Clara, Emmelino, Amelia, and others * An extensive parent * His estate * How will it "cut up?" * Who will succeed? * And will the Church soon dissolve?

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN - WHERE SHALL WE SETTLE?: Go West! * Southern Minnesota * Iowa * Southern Dakota * Nebraska * Kansas * The Indian Territory * No! * Texas * Don't believe all you hear! * The Indian border * California, Land monopoly * Oregon * Climate and soil * "The Great American Desert" * Probable population in 1900 * Where is the surplus population to go? * Good land pretty well occupied * What will be the result – Western Wilds will continue wild for a century to come

ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDE:

The non-resident tax-payer * “Our liberties, sir" * "Civilized" * "Thoroughly acclimated" * "I hunted the pipe-works" * Mrs. Joe's " tantrums" * "Made music all day” * His last chance * "Laying on of hands" * "The good old time" * "Only a memory" * Pulpit Rock: Echo Canon * The Great Salt Lake * On the slope of Griffith Mountain * To the rendezvous * Canon de las Animas * Getting down to the Cimarron * For life or death * "Someone came forward holding a cup" * "The Mexicans saw no way" * "Dolores fainted in my arms" * "The balls whistled around us" * Brigham Young * Orson Pratt * George A. Smith * Brigham's Residences * Humboldt Palisades * Seven thousand feet above the sea * Cape Horn * California Agricultural Report * Barbary Coast: San Francisco * "Bodaciously chawed up" * Mormon wives for summer and winter * Great expectations * Dakotas torturing a Pawnee * The two guardsmen * The Fallen Monarch * Something of a stump * A monster * Yosemite Falls * Doherty’s description * El Capitan * Bridal Veil Fall * Sentinel Rock * North Dome and Royal Arches * Nevada Falls * Vernal Falls * Mirror Lake * Mormon Militia * Chloride Cave, Lion Hill * Goshoot Love-feast * Lost on the Desert * Deacon Chew * "They broke loose and lit out down the street" * "And they clinched" * "Half the town took a shy at him" * The Seat of War * "Where warring tribes met in peace" * Fine field for the ethnologist * "Slem-lem-an-dah-mouch-wah-ger" * "Go West" * Wild Bill * "Scattering leaden death on all sides" * "Divide Hotel and Ranche" * “Suggested wild beasts and banditti" * The ambush and running fight * Pueblo Maiden * Kit Carson * Pueblo Cacique * "Woman's Rights" * Coming to the "count" * On the Mesa Calabasa * "Converted on the spot" * Navajo Loom * Aztec Priest and Warrior * Down the Cliff * Climbing for water * Mouth of Pahreah Creek * Head of the Grand Canon * "Three little Injuns" * A Pi-Ede Ceres * Winter camp of Goshoots * Scenes on the Colorado Plateau * "Dashed across the burning plain" * Thomas James kills the Bannock * "Behold our Lamanite Brother" * "Let me look toward old England before I die" * "Willie has struck chloride" * Shoshonees with annuity goods * Burning of the Mormon Temple * Killing of Secretary McCook * Pembina people and ox-carts * Winter in Minnesota pineries * Minnehaha in winter * Dalles of St. Louis River * Blue Canon, Sierra Nevada * Cotillion on the stump of the mammoth tree * View in the Modoc country * Rapids, Upper Columbia * Cape Mendocino * Comanche warrior * "I spiled his aim" * Un Indio Bravo * Texas and Coahuila in 1830 * General Sam Houston * "Droughty Kansas" * "Good Osage – Heap good Injun" * Affluent of Clear Creek * South-west from Gray's Peak * Deadly combat of Vaughn and La Bonte * Tolling up Griffith Mountain * Capture of John D. Lee * Mountain Meadow Massacre * Salt Lake City, 1857 * Neetmok Butte * Execution of John D. Lee * New Mining Town * Cape Horn and Railroad * The Noble Red Man * Scene of Sioux War of 1876 * "Busted" * Custer's first Indian fight * Rude Surgery of the Plains * "Giantess," big Geyser of the Yellowstone * Night bivouac on Green River, Wyoming * The Mormon Tabernacle * Fort Massachusetts, New Mexico * The Prospector’s Peril

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