1879 Wild American West Antique Indian Wars Old California Custer Sioux Travel

  
Note: Many of my clients are scholars and researchers seeking specific information related to their field of interest. For their convenience I include the following details directly from this book. Places and Historical Subject Matter Discussed/Illustrated in this Book (See Full Contents Below): Western Wilds and the Men Who Redeem Them Beadle Illustrated Fine Pictorial Decorative Binding Old West Western Frontier Pioneer Illustrated Antique Hawkeyes Omaha Nebraska Pawnee Otoe Omaha Indians Indian Land Territory Cherokee New Orleans Injun Country Indian Territory Utah Mormons Black Hills Laramie Plains Benton Alkali Desert Bitter Creek Green River Bridger Plains Echo Canon Weber Valley Parley's Canon Great Salt Lake City Griffith Mountain Colorado Geneva New Harmony Indiana Nauvoo Navajo Moquis Brigham Young Wasatch Corinne Promontory Dead Fall Murder Gulch Last Chance Painted Post Great Nevada Desert Truckee Sierras Cape Horn-Sacramento San Joaquin Davisville Chinese Fruit Wine Kansas City Lawrence Wakarusa War Massacre of 1803 Leavenworth Lawrence Galveston Road Wyandotte Atchison Troy St Joseph Missouri Valley Council Bluffs Sioux City Onawa Woodbury California Yosemite San Francisco Stockton Milton Sonora Tuolumne Grove Tamarack Flat Prospect Peak El Capitan Mirror Lake Nevada Falls Cliff House American Fork Canon Beaver City Oklahoma Vinita Cabin Creek Muscogee Creeks Rio Grande Wild Bill Colorado City Stage Coach Pueblo Santa Fe Fort Wingate Tolteccan Cibola New Mexico Arizona Canon de Chelley Moqui Aztecs Zuni Tegua Moqui Oraybe Papago Pimo Coco-Maricopas John D Lee Mountain Meadow Massacre Grand Canon of the Colorado Jacob's Pool Spring-in-Rock Illinois Iowa Camp Floyd Mormon guerrillas Cache Valley Polygamy Murder Soda Springs Denver Lawrence St Louis Bois Brules Chippeways Minnesota pineries Sioux war of 1862 Neetmok Mankato St Paul St Anthony's Falls Minnehaha Sauk Rapids Belle Prairie Black Pine Forest Brainerd North Pacific Railroad Red River Moorehead Fargo St Louis River Klamath River South Umpqua Roseburgh Oregon and California Railroad Willamette River Cape Mendocino Golden Gate Texas Denison Ellis County Navarro Corsicana Central Texas Houston Galveston Celebration of San Jacinto History Description of Texas Massacre of San Saba Missions Magee's expedition Neosho Labette Bender murderers Coffeyville Cattle trails Independence City Elk River Neodesha Colorado Denver Narrow-gauge Railroad Georgetown Caribou Boulder Canon and Falls Pike's Peak Custer Massacre Little Big Horn Bighorn Hancock's campaign Massacre of Lieutenant Kidder General Sully's campaign Washita campaign Yellowstone Expedition Rain-in-the-Face Black Hills expedition Sitting Bull Crazy Horse Emigrant Emigration Go West Minnesota Iowa North South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Indian Territory Oregon Great American Desert. 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; Thrilling Scenes and Romantic Incidents in the Lives of Western Pioneers; Adventures Among the Red and White Savages of the West; A Full Account of the Mountain Meadow Massacre; The Custer Defeat; Life and Death of Brigham Young, Etc. Beadle, Author of Life in Utah; Western Correspondent Cincinnati Commercial, etc. Published in 1879 by Jones Brothers & Company, Cincinnati.

10" x 7" pictorial binding decorated with gilt. Condition: VERY GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Handsome exterior as shown in photo. Good binding, front hinge a bit tender. Text is clean and complete.

No torn, loose or missing pages. Artistic calligraphy inscription on one of the blank prelims (see photo). A beautiful example of this informative and scarce 1879 western title. This is WESTERN WILDS, the amazing chronicle of newspaperman J.

Beadle's journeys through the fledgling states, cities, towns and territories of the old American West. With his keen eye and journalist's instinct, he records his travels in rich detail and furnishes important information for would-be pioneers and emigrants. His travels take him throughout the entire West and read like a jaunt through a history book.

He relates his experiences with Mormons, Indians, miners, missionaries, railroad men, Chinese laborers, scouts, explorers - in short, the whole gamut of colorful characters we associate with the old West. He writes in the Preface. In writing this work the author had two objects in view: to interest the reader; and to tell the exact truth about the country west of the Mississippi.

The Far West is an immense region, and no one man ever visited all sections of it. I have labored earnestly to give facts in regard to the lands still open to settlement; and I have been very careful to correct certain errors as to soil and climate which I find very common in the East. I have aimed to avoid personalities, but I cannot altogether refrain from harsh expressions as to the misstatements made in many land circulars; or the colored falsehoods of many maps, made to invite immigration. Beadle spent a significant portion of his time out west getting to know the workings of mines and mining camps, Indians, Indian agencies, Indian wars and warriors, and much more. At the same time he became intimately acquainted with the land and all of its wonders. His wanderings took him down the new routes of the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific Railroads, down the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon, through Yellowstone in Wyoming and Yosemite in California, over the Sierra Nevadas, to the shores of California and the "Barbary Coast" of San Francisco. He made careful observations, took copious notes and made it his mission to convey the TRUTH about the western lands to prospective emigrants, often in direct conflict with the rosy descriptions provided by the railroad and land companies hoping to lure new customers to the West. Over the course of his journeys, Beadle met participants in notorious chapters of western history such as Mormon zealot John D.

Lee, one of the leaders of the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre in which Mormons and Indians killed more than 100 members of a party of western-bound emigrants. The author met Lee during an excursion on the Colorado River, where he fled after the Massacre and lived under an alias to avoid arrest. (Lee was afterwards captured and executed).

The author also spent time living and working in Utah, where as a "Gentile newspaper man" he came to know many Mormons and to learn more about the Mormon faith. His experiences there gave him a unique perspective on Mormon/LDS subjects such as polygamy and especially the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Regarding that infamous episode in western history, Beadle states in his Preface.

Some critics will object that the work contains rather more about Utah and the Mormons than the subject warrants. Eight years ago I hunted up, from a score of sources, the facts of the Mountain Meadow Massacre; and, when published, there was a loud outcry that I had overdrawn the picture - made it a newspaper sensation. I here present the testimony of witnesses in court, sworn and cross-examined, to show that my narrative of eight years ago was by far too mild; that in every charge then made against the Mormon Church I was within the truth.. WESTERN WILDS is Beadle's personal record of his years of travel and residence in the new States and Territories of the West - where he went, what he did, what he saw and what he thought about it.

624 pages of wild adventures, colorful characters, keen observations and plain dealing. In order to give you the most accurate description of this rare, old and fascinating volume, I have provided some helpful details below, starting with a thorough examination of the book's contents. You can even see some of these historic images for yourself further down this page.

I hope you'll take a few moments to have a look. CHAPTER ONE - THE HAWKEYES: I make a start Fair Iowa Yankee, Hoosier, Buckeye, and Scandinavian The Aryan wave Hoosier grammar Sorrows of the non-resident land-owner "The walled lakes" Greatness of the Border States "Hoss high, bull strong, and pig tight" The'hoppers "Omahawgs" and "Omahens" " Milkville" and "Bilkville" Rural Nebraska Agricultural wealth Pawnees, Otoes, Omahaws The Bedouin instinct "Go West". CHAPTER TWO - A WESTERN CHARACTER: Unsung heroes Scenes in Southern Kansas "Shuck up" "Fevernager" My host's story He leaves Tennessee for New Orleans "Chawin' rags for a papermill" Up into the Cherokee country Another run to New Orleans Walk home through the "Injun" country Murder of Mcintosh and others War between the Rossites and Ridgeites Exposure and fever Delirium Rescued by the "little Cherokee girl" Home again Joe and Myra More trouble with the Cherokees Journey to Iowa In danger from the "Danites" Mrs Joe's "tantrums" Captured by the Hawkeyes Interview with Judge Lynch Horrible murder of Miller and Liecy Hanging of the Hodges Terrible times on the Half-breed Tract The California excitement Start from Independence Troubles on the way Danger and death on the great desert Among the gold hunters More murders Return to Tennessee The great war Death of the boys Removal to Indian Territory Won't there be peace while I live? CHAPTER THREE - THE JOURNEY TO UTAH: Flush times in Omaha Some characters Will Wylie's escape "Seen the Elephant" "A neck-tie sociable" "Coppered on the jack" Apostate Mormons' caravan Up the slope to Cheyenne " Dirty Jule's" The Plains " Magic City" Passage of the Black Hills Virginia Dale Laramie Plains Benton Alkali Desert Evanescent "cities" Bear River City Battle with the roughs More Mormons "Catfish with legs" Horrors of Bitter Creek Green River Bridger Plains The author a mule-whacker Grandeur of Echo Canon Weber Valley Up to Parley's Park Down Parley's Canon First view of the Salt Lake " City of the Saints" I become a Gentile sinner. CHAPTER FOUR - GEFFROY'S TRIALS: On Griffith Mountain, Colorado Are we the authors of our own destiny?

Geffroy'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 River of Souls" The tierras templadas In the Wild Canon Posted on the Taos Trail Doherty's description 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 Geffroy and friend go after them Surrounded by Mexicans A dash for life Headlong leap into the chasm Oblivion, or death?

CHAPTER FIVE - 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". CHAPTER SIX - 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, Monogamy, and other gamies Utah politics Noted Gentiles Liberal Mormons Credulous 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". CHAPTER SEVEN - 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 Trnckee State Line Down the Sierras Wonders of Cape Horn-Sacramento " San Joeykwinn Or San Wahkeen? In Yolo County Davisville Chinese and silk culture Tides Fruits and wine Does it supersede whisky? The California seasons "Frisco" Chinese Theater The tragedy of Rip Sah Buddhist ceremonies A gloomy sort of religion "Top-side Josh" The devil-drive "Chinaman like Melica man". CHAPTER EIGHT - TWO YEARS OF CHANGE: Utah and trouble "Mormon hospitality" The author mobbed and badly hurt, but recovers rapidly Healing air of the mountains Rich mineral discoveries in Utah The Gentiles take heart The Emma Mine I go to Washington as a lobbyist And don't like it Further travels in Utah Polygamy again Rev J P Newman shows that there are but thirteen polygamists mentioned in the Bible And hundreds of good monogamists Orson Pratt comes back at him High times in the Tabernacle Some of the nasty features of polygamy Such as incest and indecency A village composed of Taylors And one made up of Winns General view of the Territory And of the Far West. CHAPTER NINE - THE MISSOURI VALLEY: Kansas City, a modern Rome We look at it, but do not invest The " Land of Zion" Lawrence "The Wakarusa War" The Massacre of 1803 The Athens of the West Our journey southward -- The Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Road Ottawa Western Yankees "Brother K's blooded mare' " Buffalo stamps" A progressive country Fertility of Allen and Neosho counties An incorrigible old man Cherryvale The beautiful mounds The social Kansian " Sna-a-a-kes!

" Northward to Leavenworth Quindaro Chindowan "A second Babylon" Wyandotte Atchison Troy St Joe Up the Missouri Valley Council Bluffs Omaha On northward Sioux City Onawa Woodbury Staging to Yankton Dakotiane, French, Scandinavians, and Bohemians "Woman's Rights: "to do as much work as she can" The gentle savage Iapi Oahye! " Portable talk" Northern Dakota Western Dakota We leave suddenly for California. CHAPTER TEN - THE WONDERS OF CALIFORNIA: All aboard for Yosemite! From chilly "Frisco" to melting Stockton By rail to Milton Hot drive among the foot-hills Copperopolis The broiling stage; air dead calm; thermometer 100° In the cool grove at last The vegetable wonders of the world A tree thirty-two feet thick " Father and Mother" " Husband and Wife, " 200 feet high " Uncle Tom's Cabin" How came they here? California names Over Table Mountain "Truthful James" Old mining towns Sonora Chinese Camp Garrote The Tuolumne Grove Tamarack Flat Reminiscences of the "strong-minded" First view of Yosemite Prospect Peak The terrible descent A fall of 2,667 feet El Capitan, Tu-toch-ah-nu-la A reverie on Cosmos Mirror Lake Reflected glories The climb to Nevada Falls Down by Vernal Falls The sublime and beautiful J M Hutchings, the pioneer "Spirit of the Evil Wind" "Great Chief of the Valley" Down hill to San Francisco Climate of the Coast A day at the Cliff House Poluphloisboio Thalasses Regretful good-bye to the Pacific Coast.

CHAPTER ELEVEN - UTAH ARGENTIFERA: Gentiles after silver, Mormons after the Gentiles "Revelations" and prospecting Up Little Cottonwood The silver lodes Snow-slides 12,000 feet above the sea Bald Peak, and a view of 20,000 square miles Big Cottonwood Canon The great fire American Fork Canon, the Yosemite of Utah Mormon farmers vs. Gentile mountaineers "The Republic of Tooele" East Canon and horn silver Chloride Cave Dry Canon Wild times in the West Mountains A Goshoot feast I start to Dugway And get lost on the desert Komteen A lonesome night Danger and weariness Ninety miles travel in twenty-seven hours Independence Day on Great Salt Lake "No gulls in Utah before the Mormons came" Sailing on the Lake Mines in southern Utah Beaver City Mineral wealth of the Territory Shall we annex Utah to Nevada? CHAPTER TWELVE - A CHAPTER OF BETWEENS: Joe Allkire talks Valley tan whisky calls up reminiscences " A bad streak o' luck" "Sod-corn barefooted" Millerites''Misses Chew splits the choir" The grand dog-fight Which broke up a town "That yaller and spotted dog" Abraham and the preacher clinch " No Morgan-killers need apply" "The head abolishinists" Si Duvall's luck Union Flats becomes very flat Other reminiscences Men who had tried many fields Story of the mountaineer Will and Bob McAfee Camp in Arkansas Canon The storm, and falling timber Dreadful alternative of the unwounded brother He "relieves the other's torture And dies of grief and remorse.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - OKLAHOMA: A new route to the Pacific I enter the Indian Territory Vinita " White Cherokees" Cabin Creek Mixed bloods "It comes back on'cm" Christian Indians Muscogee Also Muskokee The Creeks at home Ala-bah-ma: "Here we rest" Natchees and Hitchitees An Aboriginal Democracy House of Kings and House of Warriors Pahly hohkohlen Tallahassee Mission The Muskokee in love "Beautiful River" Brad Collins and his gang Oklahoma vs. Okmulkee Red hot on temperance In the Choctaw country Tandy Walker Among the Cherokees The Big Rattling Gourd and other politicians Cherokee history Civilized Indians of the Territory What shall we do with them? CHAPTER FOURTEEN - JOURNEY TO THE RIO GRANDE: Northward again Out on the Kansas Pacific A beautiful country Ellsworth Carnival of crime in 1867 "Wild Bill" J H Runkle "Rake Jake" "Dad Smith" Shall we have a man for breakfast?

" Heroic, but murderous Bisons and business Arrival at Denver Rest and enjoyment Southward by the narrow-gauge railway The Divide Timbered region Colorado City Take stage-coach Pueblo Night in the stage Cocharas The senoritas Neetmok route Another day of staging Trinidad The Raton Mountains Down upon the New Mexican side Wild scenes Maxwell's Ranche Passage of the Rocky Ridge A snow storm and a grizzly Down to Santa Fe Disappointed with the city A queer old town High-sounding names Indian troubles Starting for Fort Wingate La Bajada Quiin Sabef Pueblos Indians Valley of the Rio Grande Albuquerque The gente fina The "Greasers Will they ever amount to any thing? CHAPTER FIFTEEN - TOLTECCAN: The oldest inhabitant Alvar Nunez, etc, traverses New Mexico What he saw and how he lied about it "The Seven Cities of Cibola" Conquest of New Mexico Revolt of the Pueblos Second Conquest High-toned grandees Caste Sad? Occurrence Should the Territory be made a State? CHAPTER SIXTEEN - WILD LIFE IN ARIZONA: The gathering Canon Benito Handsome Indian girls Navajo patience A mixed tongue "Slim-man-with-a-white-eye" El-soo-see En-now-ln-kyh "Big Quill" Murder of Agent Miller Sorrow of the Navajoes Their kindness and courtesy Off for a trip My Navajo guide "Tohh kloh no mas" Descent into Canon de Chelley Wonders on wonders The "cliff cities" Moonlight in the canon Out again on the desert An awful passage The hot alkali plains Thirst and suffering Hah koh, Melicano!

Approach to the Moqui towns Amazement of the inhabitants The city set on a rock The strangest people in the world Chino and Misiamtewah The Moquis welcome me gladly. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - AMONG THE AZTECS: Topography of Arizona A region of hot sands and barren mountains, of fierce savages and gentle Indians, of rich mines and wild, forbidding wastes The Mesa Calabasa Zunis, Teguas, Moquis, Oraybes, Papagoes, Pimos, and Coco-Maricopas Rapid decay of the wild tribes Noble Navajoes Their native shrewdness, industry and bravery Who are they?

Barboncito Ganado Mucho Their handiwork Their temperance and endurance Life at Moqui Ho, Melicano, messay vo! " Jesus Papa Moqui theology The "white Indians of Arizona Ruins Aztec or Toltec? Comparison with mound-builders' remains And South American Ruins Only a theory Which no one is bound to accept. Journey to the new Navajo camp "Damn Espanol, shteal mooch" On the sandstone mesa A pleasant party of four Todos muertos, pero mas Apaches! " Another sandstone waste First view of the river, 5,000 feet below us Getting down the cliff Water and salts At the river at last No boats Perilous passage The white woman -- "My God, stranger, did you risk your life to swim that river? The Mormon convert's story Three days at the ferry Parting from my Navajo friends. CHAPTER NINETEEN - A STARTLING INTERVIEW: I meet with a surprise "Major Doyle" proves to be John D Lee And tells me the story of his crime He describes the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre Character of the murdered emigrants They are charged with being enemies of the Mormon people The latter incensed And determined on revenge Did they poison the spring? " Rest at Kanab Jacob Hamlin The Powell party On the desert again Pipe Springs Our bishop landlord Another ride over rock and sand Gould's Ranche Virgin City Toquerville "Mormon Dixie At Isaac Haight's Kanarra Another misfortune Ride to Parowan Little Salt Lake Arrive at Beaver Staging thence to Salt Lake City. CHAPTER TWENTY- THE FAIR APOSTATE: English homes Radical and Conservative; Chartist and Monarchist Coming of the Mormon missionary Simple lives changed Voyage to America The hand-cart emigration Frightful sufferings on the plains Death on all sides Starved, frozen, torn by the wolves The Old Radical finds the Brotherhood of Man A young hero Willie Manson concludes to go West Journeys thro' Illinois and Iowa Meets a queer party The year 1857 His sufferings At Camp Floyd Goes to the city Sickness and fever A familiar face by his pillow. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - THE FAIR APOSTATE, CONTINUED: Hot times in "Zion" "The Reformation" Arrival of the hand-cart emigrants An epidemic madness Horrible reign of lust and fanaticism United States officials driven out Mormon war begun Skill and daring of Mormon guerrillas But the Gentile army enters the Valley 30,000 Mormons move south But return and submit peaceably Willie Manson's new friends More apostates John Banks and Thomas James Little Marian becomes Miss Marian And Manson does not understand the change In his perplexity he abcxs hears doctrine And reproof But hardens his heart A new prophet Joseph Morris Morrisite Camp on the Weber Attacked and broken up by the Brighamites Murder of the women Barbarous killing of Morris and Banks Flight of Thomas James Exhausted, he lies down to die Beatty and Manson off for Montana Relieve James War with the Bannocks Desperate encounters Four years amid the gold fields Manson becomes a man! The friends hear that all is peace in Utah And together return to "Zion". CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - THROUGH GREAT TRIBULATION: Bright days in Cache Valley A brother and a sister restored to fellowship Thomas James is again happy with Christina But he is a bishop's rival, and that means danger "Blood atonement" A nameless horror The man becomes a creature Manson perplexed "Keep your eye peeled; this is a queer country" Red-hot discussion of polygamy News from James; which is no news Anti-Gentile Philippies Manson meets Marian A good outcome at last Astonishing conduct of Elder Briarly Mystery added to mystery Another Gentile panic Murder of Brassfield Outrages on Gentile settlers Murder of Dr Robinson Flight of the Gentile pre-emptors Sad fate of Thomas James Bishop Warren has his reward But heaven is kinder to Christina than her own people She finds release in death Briarly flies from the Territory Marian and Manson Their Iowa home But Utah is the home of the soul And President Grant has given us hope Hank Beatty's crime Death of his wife The Mansons return to Utah As their troubles ended with a marriage, their future state is left to faith. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - SWINGING ROUND CIRCLE: Off for Soda Springs A land of wonders A chemical laboratory ten miles square Soda by the ton, to be had for the taking The "Morrisites" again A little run eastward Denver Lawrence St Louis A day in Nauvoo -- "Destined capital of a religious empire" To the new North-west Yankton Assassination of Secretary McCook Steamboating on the Missouri Sioux City again Enterprising, but sensational Off for Minnesota We enter the Garden State.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - MINNESOTA: Reminiscences of 1859 The Bois Brules Full-blood Chippeways Minnesota pineries The Red Napoleon of the North-west " Hard times" in 1859 I live on corn-bread, hoc corn, and cultivate muscle Better times Sioux war of 1862 Blue-earth County Mankato Journey to St Paul Topography St Anthony's Falls Minnehaha Journey to Sauk Rapids Staging thence northward Belle Prairie Catholic outposts Crow Wing Black Pine Forest Brainard Breaking up the Sabbath Chippeway dance Out on the North Pacific Railroad The barren region Down to Red River Moorehead Navigation to British America Fargo Westward by construction train Dakota's Salt Lake Jimtown Eastward again The lake region Scenery on the St Louis River Among the Scandinavians' " Postoff" Jay Cooke's Banana Zone. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - THE WAY TO OREGON: "Let us try the web-feet" Through Iowa Westward from Omaha Changes of four years My fourteenth trip over the Union Pacific More trouble in Utah Across the Sierras again Up the Sacramento Gen John Bidwell's ranche Grapes, figs, apples, and lemons in November Reading Walk-in Miller's squaw His life in jail Great forests of the upper Sacramento Six Cailloux "Sleeping Dictionary" Yreka Over the Mountains Klamath River Cow Creek South Umpqua Roseburgh Oregon and California Railroad Down the Willamette "Beaver Lands" In Portland Such a fog! " "John Chinaman" First-class funerals needed "Web-feet maidens Shall we go home by sea?

Down the Columbia by steamer "High sea running" Oh, my head, my stomach! " The boat goes on end The land-lubbers fall on all sides Better weather "On an even keel Beauties of the Pacific Cape Mendocino The Golden Gate Once more on terra firma. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - LAS TEXAS Y LOS TEJANOS: "G T T" Bad reputation "You may go to hell, and I'll go to Texas" The author finds things improved Through the Indian Territory Red River Denison "North Folk" Healthy region "The spiral maginnis" or "De meninjeesus" At Sherman Down Main Trinity Travels in Collin County The Cotton Belt In Ellis County Navarro and Corsicana Insects and other sects "A thousand and forty-four legs" Through Central Texas to Houston Buffalo Bayou Delightful ride to Galveston Celebration of San Jacinto Brave Texan, bravest man in the South, sab! " Delights of the Galveston beach Beauties of the island Up country The land of border romance Bob Rock and his brown mestiza Hon "Shack Roberts Some political notes A tolerant and liberal State.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF TEXAS: La Salle First Settlement on the coast Origin of the border question Murder of La Salle The murderers murdered The missions Indios reduce "Reduced" by prayer and fasting The "men of reason" War between the French and Spanish Massacre of San Saba Decline of the Missions Louisiana ceded to Spain Better times in Texas Louisiana ceded back to France The border question again The United States takes a hand Fearful murders and robberies Magee's expedition Desperate battle Magee kills himself Surrender of his army They are barbarously massacred by the Spaniards Revolution in Mexico More trouble in Texas Moses and Stephen Austin Oppression of the Texans Revolution Heroic defense of the Alamo Fannin's command butchered Glorious victory of San Jacinto Independence and subsequent events Descriptive sketch of the State. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - KANSAS REVISITED: Through the new counties "Hard times" The Grangers' War Woman suffrage Allen County Neosho Labette The Bender murderers Their real fate Coffeyville Ten square miles of cattle! "Not a good year for stock, either" The cattle trails Montgomery County Kansas politics The Osage diminished Reserve Independence City Elk River Wilson County Neodesha Kansas cotton Into the mound region Westward, ho! Among the flint hills Southwestern Kansas General view of the State. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - COLORADO: Westward again 1874 Disappearance of the buffalo Reach Denver A long rest Narrow-gauge for Georgetown The sublime and beautiful in Clear Creek 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 Ride to Greeley and Evans. CHAPTER THIRTY - 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 Colorado The White Desert Possibilities of the new State. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE - 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. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO - GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY? Astonishing conduct of Mormon jurymen They refuse to convict But the Mormon 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.

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE - SPIRITUAL WIVES AND CARNAL HUSBANDS: Does polygamy pay? Why it engenders poverty Utah the poorest of the Territories in funded wealth Polygamy engenders deceit Dissipates social energy And naturally goes along with a theocracy Slavish submission of the Mormon laity The "Revelation" And the falsehood that followed it Fourteen printed and sworn denials Frightful perjury Primitive marriage Monogamous animals Monogamy the rule with all the higher organizations Polygamy and Polyandry Substantial numerical equality of the sexes Other evils in Utah Duty of Congress Shall we have a Mormon State? CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - THE NOBLE RED MAN: The tragedy of June 25th, 1876 Sorrow of the nation Sketch of Custer's life Hancock's campaign of 1867 Hancock outwitted by the hostiles Custer's first Indian fight "Circling" Massacre of Lieutenant Kidder and party Horrid scenes General Sully's campaign of 1868 Custer's Washita campaign Yellowstone Expedition of 1873 Murder of Honzinger and Baliran Arrest of Rain-in-the-Face He escapes and swears vengeance against Custer Black Hills expedition of 1874 Gold in the Hills Events of 1875 Campaign of 1876 against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Custer in disgrace at headquarters The miserable Belknap affair Three columns converge on the hostile camp The bloody ending Close of the campaign Sitting Bull goes to Canada, and Crazy Horse to the happy hunting grounds Perhaps. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE - WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN THE TERRITORIES: "The coming woman" Has she come in Utah and Wyoming?

Woman suffrage A crime in Utah; a fraud in Wyoming A trick of the priesthood Propositions by Senator Pomeroy and Representative Julian Folly of such schemes Women vote And always for the Church as against liberty No Mormon women ever voted for free schools or free speech Utah law -- no marriage act and no dower law Wyoming Woman suffrage adopted as a joke How it works No difference observable Statistics of saloons and "social evils" Where is the great moral reform? No women in office Women juries Why they were discontinued Does the good or evil predominate? CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX - THE DEAD PROPHET: Brigham dies Charity demands only the truth His history "Hard working Brigham Young" The Kirtland folly Brigham carries a level head Building up Nauvoo Martha Brotherton "blabs" And the Prophet and Apostle get into hot water "Spiritual wifery" introduced "Persecution" Death of Joe Smith Brigham as head of the Twelve Apostles Journey to Salt Lake Valley Trouble with the United States Brigham as a marrying man His wives, Mary Ann, Lucy, Clara, Emmelino, Amelia, and others An extensive parent His estate How will it cut up? And will the Church soon dissolve? CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN - WHERE SHALL WE SETTLE?

Southern Minnesota Iowa Southern Dakota Nebraska Kansas The Indian Territory No! Texas Don't believe all you hear! The Indian border California, Land monopoly Oregon Climate and soil "The Great American Desert" Probable population in 1900 Where is the surplus population to go? Good land pretty well occupied What will be the result - Western Wilds will continue wild for a century to come. Joe's " tantrums" "Made music all day" His last chance "Laying on of hands" "The good old time" "Only a memory" Pulpit Rock: Echo Canon The Great Salt Lake On the slope of Griffith Mountain To the rendezvous Canon de las Animas Getting down to the Cimarron For life or death "Someone came forward holding a cup" "The Mexicans saw no way" "Dolores fainted in my arms" "The balls whistled around us" Brigham Young Orson Pratt George A.

Smith Brigham's Residences Humboldt Palisades Seven thousand feet above the sea Cape Horn California Agricultural Report Barbary Coast: San Francisco "Bodaciously chawed up" Mormon wives for summer and winter Great expectations Dakotas torturing a Pawnee The two guardsmen The Fallen Monarch Something of a stump A monster Yosemite Falls Doherty's description El Capitan Bridal Veil Fall Sentinel Rock North Dome and Royal Arches Nevada Falls Vernal Falls Mirror Lake Mormon Militia Chloride Cave, Lion Hill Goshoot Love-feast Lost on the Desert Deacon Chew "They broke loose and lit out down the street" "And they clinched" "Half the town took a shy at him" The Seat of War "Where warring tribes met in peace" Fine field for the ethnologist "Slem-lem-an-dah-mouch-wah-ger" "Go West" Wild Bill "Scattering leaden death on all sides" "Divide Hotel and Ranche" "Suggested wild beasts and banditti" The ambush and running fight Pueblo Maiden Kit Carson Pueblo Cacique "Woman's Rights" Coming to the "count" On the Mesa Calabasa "Converted on the spot" Navajo Loom Aztec Priest and Warrior Down the Cliff Climbing for water Mouth of Pahreah Creek Head of the Grand Canon "Three little Injuns" A Pi-Ede Ceres Winter camp of Goshoots Scenes on the Colorado Plateau "Dashed across the burning plain" Thomas James kills the Bannock "Behold our Lamanite Brother" "Let me look toward old England before I die" "Willie has struck chloride" Shoshonees with annuity goods Burning of the Mormon Temple Killing of Secretary McCook Pembina people and ox-carts Winter in Minnesota pineries Minnehaha in winter Dalles of St. Louis River Blue Canon, Sierra Nevada Cotillion on the stump of the mammoth tree View in the Modoc country Rapids, Upper Columbia Cape Mendocino Comanche warrior "I spiled his aim" Un Indio Bravo Texas and Coahuila in 1830 General Sam Houston "Droughty Kansas" "Good Osage - Heap good Injun" Affluent of Clear Creek South-west from Gray's Peak Deadly combat of Vaughn and La Bonte Tolling up Griffith Mountain Capture of John D. Lee Mountain Meadow Massacre Salt Lake City, 1857 Neetmok Butte Execution of John D.

Lee New Mining Town Cape Horn and Railroad The Noble Red Man Scene of Sioux War of 1876 "Busted" Custer's first Indian fight Rude Surgery of the Plains "Giantess, " big Geyser of the Yellowstone Night bivouac on Green River, Wyoming The Mormon Tabernacle Fort Massachusetts, New Mexico The Prospector's Peril. There may be slight variations in foxing/toning, etc. Remember folks, this is an 1879 original.

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