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Show vi CONTENTS. CHAPTER IV. GEFFROY'S TRIALS. On Griffith Mountain, Colorado. " Are we the authors of our own destiny?" Geffrey'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 Eiver of Souls." The tierras templadas. In the Wild Canon. Posted on the Taos Trail. 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. Geffrey and friend go after them. Surrounded by Mexicans. A dash for life. Headlong leap into the chasm. Oblivion, or death? 56- 71 CHAPTER V. 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." 72- 89 CHAPTER VI. 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, Mo-nogamy, and other gamies. Utah politics. Noted Gentiles. Liberal Mormons. Credu-lous 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." . . 90- 102 CHAPTER VII. 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 Truckee. State Line. Down the Sierras. Wonders of Cape Horn. Sacramento. " San Jocykwinn." Or San Wahkeen?-~ In Yolo County. Davisville. Chinese and silk culture. Tulcs. Fruits |
