Western wilds

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 16

CONTENTS. xi CHAPTER XXII. 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 dis-cussion of polygamy. News from James; which is no news. Anti- Gentile Philippics. Manson meets Marian. A good outcome at last. Astonishing conduct of Elder Bri-arly. Mystery added to mystery. Another Gentile panic. Murder of Brassfield. Out-rages 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 348- 370 CHAPTER XXIII. SWINGING ' ROUND THE 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 lit-tle run eastward. Denver. Lawrence. St. Louis. A day in Nauvoo: " Destined cap-ital 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. . . 371- 378 CHAPTER XXIV. 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, hoe corn, and cultivate muscle. Better times. Sioux war of 1862. Blue-earth County. Mankato. Journey to St. Paul. Topography. St. Anthony's Fall* Minnehaha. Journey to Sauk Rapids. Staging thence northward. Belle Prairia Catholic outposts. Crow Wing. Black Pine Forest. Brainard. Breaking up the Sab-bath. A Chippeway dance. Out on the North Pacific R. R. 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 379- 389 CHAPTER XXV. 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. Rose-