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Title |
Western wilds |
Subject |
Salt Lake City (Utah); Young, Brigham, 1801-1877; Latter Day Saints; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; White people--Relations with Indians; Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857; ; Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881; Missionaries; Federal government; Adventure and adventurers; Arizona; Maps; Indigenous peoples--North America |
Keywords |
Narrative; Far West; Wild life; perils; Canyon; Desert; Custer's defeat; life and death of Brigham Young; "savages"; Native Americans |
Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
File Name |
1of2-1850s-SS006.pdf |
Tribe |
Navajo; Shoshone |
Source |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Language |
eng |
Description |
J.H. Beadle provides his account of life west of the Mississippi River. Beadle discusses Mormon settlement of Utah, including Mormon lifestyles, Brigham Young's leadership style, conflicts between Mormons and the federal government, and relations between the Mormons and Utah's Indians; Beadle is critical of the LDS Church and its policies. Beadle also gives an account of Indian lifestyles in other Western states, and along the Colorado and Rio Grand Rivers and the Pacific Coast |
Type |
Text |
Coverage |
Utah |
Format |
application/pdf |
Rights |
Digital Image Copyright University of Utah |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6fn42mh |
Holding Institution |
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Creator |
Beadle, J. H. (John Hanson), 1840-1897 |
Date |
1879 |
Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City (Utah); North America; Nevada; California; Washington (D.C.).; Tooele (Utah); Oklahoma; Colorado; Arizona; Kanab (Utah); New Mexico; Wyoming |
Setname |
uaida_main |
ID |
355210 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fn42mh |
Title |
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 ... adventures among the red - Page 15 |
Format |
application/pdf |
OCR Text |
Show x CONTENTS. 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 Na-vajo friends. ... 287- 300 CHAPTER XIX. 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 ene-mies 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. Bide 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. . . 301- 316 CHAPTER XX. 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 317- 331 CHAPTER XXI. 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 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 Man-son 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." 332- 347 |
Setname |
uaida_main |
ID |
354589 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fn42mh/354589 |