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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 629 |
Format |
application/pdf |
OCR Text |
Show 624 WESTERN WILDS. cellent for a thriving colony. On the Sevier is a smaller valley of the same character. East of the " Wasatch Range are several beauti-ful valleys. That of Ash-ley's Fork contains land enough for three thousand farms, all of most excel-lent quality ; and it can be had for the takingo. Late in 1873 a dozen stock ranchers settled there, and " have raised splendid crops every year since. Be it noted that in no part of the temperate zone is fruit a more certain crop than in Utah. Peaches never fail. The Ashley Valley slopes gently to the south-east; suo\ v rarely lies on more than one night, and all the slopes are rich in bunch- grass. Game is abundant in the neighbor-ing hills, and a good road can easily be constructed to the Union Pacific at B r i d g e r Station. The Valley of Brush Creek, east of Ashley, is about half as large and equally inviting. In these a colony of ten thousand Americans might make for themselves delightful homes. Farther south are sev-eral fine valleys, none quite so large as the fore- THK PROSPECTOR'S PERU,. going, b u t very fertile ; and small settlements have been made in some of them. It is to be noted that these valleys which open eastward from the Wasatch |
Setname |
uaida_main |
ID |
355203 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6fn42mh/355203 |