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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 |
Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City (Utah); North America; Nevada; California; Washington (D.C.).; Tooele (Utah); Oklahoma; Colorado; Arizona; Kanab (Utah); New Mexico; Wyoming |
Keywords |
Narrative; Far West; Wild life; perils; Canyon; Desert; Custer's defeat; life and death of Brigham Young; "savages"; Native Americans |
Tribe |
Navajo; Shoshone |
Creator |
Beadle, J. H. (John Hanson), 1840-1897 |
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 |
Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Date |
1879 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
File Name |
1of2-1850s-SS006.pdf |
Source |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Language |
eng |
Coverage |
Utah |
Rights |
Digital Image Copyright University of Utah |
Holding Institution |
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6fn42mh |
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 536 |
Format |
application/pdf |
OCR Text |
Show CHAPTER XXXIII. THE NOBLE RED MAN. ON a bright Sunday in June, 1876, while the nation was on the top wave of the Centennial enthusiasm and opening of the Presi-dential campaign, the news went flashing over the wires that General George A. Custer and all his command lay dead in a Montana valley, the victims of a Sioux massacre. With him had died his two brothers, his brother- in- law and a nephew ; and of all that entered that bat-tle not one white man survived. For a brief space there was hope that it might be a false report, but soon followed official pa-pers which confirmed every ghastly detail of the first dispatches. For a few days the public sorrow over-came all other consid-erations ; then, by nat-ural revulsion, sorrow gave place to indignation, and that in turn to a fierce demand for in-vestigation and a victim. The public must have a victim when there has been a misfortune. Then ensued a performance which was no credit to us as a nation. His opponents attacked President Grant as the real cause of Glister's death; his friends foolishly defended the President by criticising Custer; the latter's friends in the army sav- THE NOBLE RED MAN. |
Setname |
uaida_main |
ID |
355110 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fn42mh/355110 |