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 18

CONTENTS. xiii Canon. Floyd Hill. Stage to Idaho Springs. To Georgetown. 2,000 miners. But where are the women? High climbs. Cool retreats. Independence Day on the summit of the Rocky Mountains. Snow banks and iced brooks. Beauties of the upper parks. Drive to Gray's Peak. The September storm. Climb through snow and ice. 14,400 feet above the sea. And a fearful snow- storm in summer. Down to Denver. Up to Caribou. Wild beauty of Boulder Canon and Falls. The rich silver lodes. On the plains again. Bide to Greeley and Evans. 447- 469 CHAPTER XXX. THE CENTENNIAL STATE. Coronado. Mythologic age of Colorado. Pike sees his Peak. The hunters and trappers. Bloody encounters. Love, treachery, and retribution. Gold! The great rush. " Pike's Peak." Society takes shape. Miners' laws. People's courts. Attempts at a Territory. Successful at last: the 38th State. Our life in Georgetown. Griffith Mountain. " The Holy Cross." Rich silver mines. The Dives- Pelican Lode. Curiosities of mining. " Sam Wann," or Juan. Silver by millions. Southern Colo-rado. The White Desert. Possibilities of the new State. . . . 470- 489 CHAPTER XXXI. THE MORMON MURDERERS. Another year in Utah. Capture of John D. Lee. His awful crime. Mormon madness in 1857. Assassination of Parley P. Pratt. The doomed emigrants pass Salt Lake City. Are harassed as they go south. Attacked and besieged. Surrender to Lee and others. A plot hatched in hell. The demon Higby gives the signal. Fearful scenes of blood. One hundred and thirty- one Americans fall victims to Mormon malice! And the Governor of Utah " never heard of it!" Brigham certifies to a falsehood. And swears to another. Strange chain of events leading to discovery. Lee brought to trial. Shameful farce of selecting jurymen. A black case made out. Brigham's remarkable deposition. 490- 511 CHAPTER XXXII. GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY ? Astonishing conduct of Mormon jurymen. They refuse to convict. But the Mor-mon Church can not afford to sustain Lee any longer. They decide to give him up. Another trial in 1876. And a Mormon jury convict Lee. Sentence pronounced by Judge Boreman. Appeal. Date of execution postponed to March, 1877. Executed upon the very spot of his crime. Lee's final and complete confession. His last words. His peaceful and heroic death. Was Brigham Young guilty? Brigham's apologists. Captain John Codman, Geo. Q. Cannon, Gen. Thomas L. Kane. . . 512- 530 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE NOBLE RED MAN. The tragedy of June 25th, 1876. Sketch of Custer's life. Hancock's campaign. Custer's first Indian fight. Massacre of Lieutenant Kidder and party. Sully's cam-paign. Custer's Washita campaign. Yellowstone expedition. Murder of Honzinger and Baliran. Arrest and escape of Rain- in- the- Face. Black Hills expedition. Gold. Events of 1875. Campaign of 1876 against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Custer in disgrace at headquarters. Descent on the hostile camp. The bloody ending. Sitting Bull goes to Canada, and Crazy Horse to the happy hunting grounds perhaps. 531- 557