Jacob Hamblin: A Narrative of His Personal Experience as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians and Explorer, Disclosing Interpositions of Providence, Severe Privations, Perilous Situations and Remarkable Escapes Fifth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints

At the April conference of 1854, I was called, with a number of others, on a mission to the Indians in Southern Utah. Taking a horse, cow, garden seeds and some farming tools, I...

Early in the autumn of 1859, I again visited Salt Lake City, when President Brigham Young called upon me to make another visit to the Moquis, and take with me Brother Marion J....

"On the 15th of January, we were in the very act of packing the horses preparatory to a start, when and Indian arrived, who proved to be Tuba, the chief of the Moquis Indians, a...

After my return from the Colorado River, I had occasion to go to Salt Lake City. I arrived there soon after the United States army had entered Salt Lake Valley. The people north...

At Nauvoo I found Sidney Rigdon busy among the Saints, trying to establish his claim to the presidency of the Church. He was first Counselor to the Prophet Joseph at the time of...

A few days after I arrived home from Fort Defiance, I went on a visit to St. George, and other settlements. I took Tuba and his wife with me, that they might have an opportunity...

A petty chief, living west of the settlement on the Santa Clara, and on the California road, came to me and said that he had stolen from some "Mormons" as they passed by; that t...

I was born in Salem, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, on the 6th of April, 1819. When I was three months old, my father removed to Geauga Co., in the same State. That country was then a wil...

We left St. George to take the Moqui visitors home on the 18th of March, 1863. The party consisted of six white men and our Moqui friends. As I was leaving home, my Indian boy,...

In May, 1876, Brothers D. H. Wells, Erastus Snow and other leading men among the Saints, were sent to visit the new settlements in Arizona. I was sent with them as a guide. The...

It was nearly two years before we made another trip to the Moqui towns. Many of the brethren appeared to think that no good could be accomplished in that direction. In the autum...

About noon, they informed me they were ready for talk. A lodge had been emptied of its contents for a council room. It was about twenty feet long by twelve feet wide. It was con...

I settled, with my father and brothers, in Tooele Valley, thirty-five miles west of Salt Lake City. The people built their houses in the form of a fort, to protect themselves fr...

"DEAR BROTHER:--Your note of the 19th of last month came to hand on the 3rd inst. I was happy to learn of the success and the general prosperity of the mission, and trust that t...

At this time a considerable change had taken place in the spirit and feelings of the Indians of Southern Utah, since the settlement of the country in 1861-62. Up to that time, o...

I told the brethren that I thought the place could be safely settled, if they would leave their women and children on the west side of the river until matters were arranged. I c...

In the autumn of 1871, Major Powell concluded to go east, by way of Fort Defiance, and desired me to accompany him. As this appeared to be an opening for the much-desired peace...

I traveled westward about 100 miles to the Mississippi river, where I took passage on a steamer to Nauvoo. I landed in the night. In the morning, I asked a young man where the P...

In the spring and summer of 1867 I was called upon to visit the bands of Indians to the east of the settlements on the Rio Virgen, and farther north. A number of settlements had...

We were told by the Moquis that when the Navajos were at war with the United States, they were taken advantage of in their scattered condition by the Moquis, who hunted out the...

In the winter season, my family usually lived at the Santa Clara settlement, thirty miles south of the Mountain Meadows, to which place they moved in the spring, to keep stock d...

At daydawn a Navajo came to us, and asked me to give him something as a present. I did so, and, as he turned away, I recognized Brother George A. Smith's revolver in his belt.

I determined to do all I could in the summer of 1870 to establish good feelings among the Indians in the neighborhood of our people, on the west side of the Colorado, that they...

Returning to Kanab, we found Hastele and his companion waiting for us. It was thought advisable for me, with Brother A. M. Tenney as Spanish interpreter, to visit the Indians on...

Mission to Southern Utah--Locate at Harmony--Remarkable Prophecies of Heber C. Kimball fulfilled--Indians Harvesting--Indian "Medicine man"--Indian woman healed under our admini...

Indians assemble--The council lodge--Accused of lying to the Indians--Informed that I must die--Privilege granted the Smith Brothers of escaping--They refuse to desert me to sav...

Sidney Rigdon strives for the guardianship of the Church--He urges his claims at the Conference--Brigham Young, President of the Twelve, and others of the Quorum appear in the s...

Retributive justice to the Indians--We gain influence by it--The Lord gives the Indians testimonies of the truth--War between two bands of Indians--A woman burned to death from...

Visit of Tuba and his wife to the Washington factory and flouring mill--Many Navajoes come to trade with our people--Take Tuba and his wife home--More talk about the death of Yo...

The Moquis visitors taken home--Singular presentiment of my Indian boy--The route south of St. George taken the second time--Cataract Canyon--The lost Moquis and the "medicine m...

Locate in Tooele Valley--Indian troubles--Escape death by an Indian, by following the warning of the Spirit--Hunting Indians--Sudden aversion to shedding their blood--Decide to...

Change in the spirit of the Indians--Some insight into their privations and trials--They threaten hostilities--Difficulties with them settled--A kind, peaceful policy the best--...

Start home--Meet emigrants to Moancoppy--Visit Presidents Young and Smith--Return to meet the Indians--Providence favors me--Hastele fails to meet me--Return home--Moancoppy mis...

Visit to Salt Lake City--Interview between Elder George A. Smith and Governor Cumming--Elder Smith urges an investigation of the Mountain Meadow massacre--Governor Cumming objec...

President Young requests me to pilot a company to California--Save a white man from being tortured by the Indians--Indians determined to kill the company--I pacify them--Elders...

Second trip to the Moquis--Two Elders left to labor with them--Lack of success, owing to traditions of the Indians--Third mission to the east side of the Colorado--George A. Smi...

Company start to visit the Arizona settlements--Disaster in the Colorado--Bishop Roundy drowned--Explore a new route--Promise fulfilled--Visit settlements--Severe experience on...

Many Saints called to settle Southern Utah--Destructive flood on the Santa Clara--Narrow escape from drowning--Another visit across the Colorado--A new route--Moquis Indians pra...

Journey to Port Defiance--Interesting visit among the Moquis towns--Arrival at Fort Defiance--General council of the chiefs of the Navajoe nation--Great peace talk--Return home-...

Travels among the Indians--Watching the frontiers--Trip to the Moquis towns--Great raid of the Navajoes--A good opportunity lost of recovering stolen stock--Skirmishes with Raid...

Arrival at Nauvoo--My first interview with the Prophet Joseph--Some first impressions of the character of the gathered Saints--Go east on an important mission--Death of the Prop...