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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 |
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 126 |
Format |
application/pdf |
OCR Text |
Show TWO YEARS OF CHANGE. 121 House of Representatives. It was then I learned the miseries of a lobbyist. Then I knew what it was to wait wearily on legislative ac-tion; to besiege the doors of congressmen and ask favors I could not return, and cool my heels in the ante- chambers of official great-ness. It was poison to the soul of a mountaineer. Of all the varied employments I have taken a hand at, I look back with the least satis-faction upon this Washington experience. I do not wonder that lob-byists are suspected of monstrous sins and multitudinous petty crimes. Surely one who should follow the business long would be mean enough for any thing. In midsummer I attended the remarkable debate in the Taber-nacle at Salt Lake City, between Rev. J. P. New-man and Orson Pratt, which ended as might have been expected, each party claiming the victory for its own champion. It did not interest me as it might have done two years before ; for I had been long enough in Utah to know that polygamy was far from being the worst evil of Mormon-ism. _ To its victims it is doubtless a horrible institution, but to the on- looking Gentile it partakes more of the nature of a comedy. As for instance, when it is gravely announced by some old frog of an elder, that " a man can ' t ffit no exaltation in the MORMON WIVES FOB SUMMER AND celestial world ' thout he ' s gone into plurality." Or when one learns that it is the style among the wealthy to have three wives ; while your true saintly epicure, if unable to afford three, has at least " a lean wife for summer and a fat one for winter." |
Setname |
uaida_main |
ID |
354700 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fn42mh/354700 |