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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 424
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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 |
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| 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 424 |
| Format | application/pdf |
| OCR Text | CHAPTER XXVII. TEXAS CONTINUED. ROBERT CAVALIER, Sieur tie la Salle, led the first European im-migrants to Texas, landing near the entrance to Matagorda Bay, on the 18th of February, 1685. William Penn had founded Philadelphia three years before; the French were stretching their settlements from Canada ' down the western rivers, and the Spaniards were advancing slowly northward into New Mexico. A hundred and fifty years before, some survivors of the Pamphilo de Narvaez expedition had traversed Texas as captives among the Indians, but no title to the country could result therefrom. La Salle, as American history calls him, had discovered the mouth of the Mississippi, April 7th, 1682, and soon after took possession of all that region by proclamation and proces verbal, in the name of Louis XIV. He was on his return with four ships to make a settle-ment, when an error in his calculations brought him on the Texan coast. All his people were in ecstasies over the beauty and richness of the country, and a settlement was agreed upon at once. Soon after they moved over on a stream they called Les Vaches, which the Spaniards afterwards translated into La Vaca, both meaning " the cow- s." Hard work and imprudence in such a climate produced sickness ; care-lessness led to murders by the Indians; Beaujeu, commander of the fleet, sailed away with two of the vessels ; one of the other two was soon after wrecked, and the little colony got badly discouraged. By the law of nations this country, thinly occupied by wild Indians, now belonged to France; but in due time Spain took a different view of it, relying on previous Spanish explorations, never proved however, to the satisfaction of diplomats. Near the close of the sixteenth century Philip II., the gloomy tyrant of Spain, issued a royal order forbid-ding all foreigners to enter this territory under penalty of extermina-tion. Thus began a " border question," which, passing down suc-cessively from Spaniard to Mexican, and from French to English and American, lasted two centuries and a half, till settled by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, on the 2d of February, 1848. In this contro- |
| Setname | uaida_main |
| ID | 354998 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fn42mh/354998 |