Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown

LEAVE WASHAKIE'S CAMP FOR THE OTHER PORTION OF THE SHOSHONE TRIBE--INDIAN GUIDE LEAVES US--FOLLOWING A TRAIL--SIGHT THE OTHER CAMP--WAR SONGS AND DANCES--INDIANS PREPARING FOR W...

TRAVEL ON FOOT TO OGDEN--WELL RECEIVED BY RELATIVES AND FRIENDS--REPLY TO INQUIRIES BY THE PEOPLE REGARDING THE SOCIETY ISLANDS AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF--CALLED TO GO TO FORT...

ORDERED TO SAN DIEGO--FIRST VIEW OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN--RUMORS OF THE ENEMY--COMPLIMENTARY ORDER, BY LIEUT. COL. COOKE, ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE MORMON BATTALION--REPORTED HOST...

PREPARE TO LEAVE CALIFORNIA--SNOW IN THE MOUNTAIN--CAUSES A WAIT TILL THE LAST OF JUNE--DISCOVER A RICH GOLD PROSPECT--LEAVE IT TO MAKE THE JOURNEY OVER THE MOUNTAINS--NO REGRET...

ATTEND MEETINGS WITH THE FIRST PRESIDENCY AND APOSTLES--MORE MISSIONARIES CALLED TO ARIZONA--MANY INQUIRIES REGARDING THE MISSION--OUTLINE THE ROUTE--PREPARATIONS FOR TRAVEL--ST...

GIVEN CHARGE OF A COMPANY TO CROSS THE PLAINS TO UTAH--COMPOSITION OF THE CAMP--START WEST--PERFORM BAPTISMS--MEET A WAR PARTY OF SIOUX INDIANS--PLACE WHERE A. W. BABBITT WAS KI...

SCARCITY OF FOOD--TRAVELING IN HEAVY RAINS--CALL ON A PROTESTANT MINISTER--ARRIVAL OF ANOTHER MISSIONARY AND LETTERS FROM HOME--VISITORS FROM METIA--HOLD A SACRAMENT MEETING--GO...

AGAIN IN ARIZONA--SETTLING DIFFICULTIES AMONG THE PEOPLE--OUR RESERVOIR BURSTS--NEWS OF NOTABLE EVENTS--PREPARE TO REPEL AN INDIAN RAID--INDIANS QUARREL, AND THE TROUBLE PASSES...

SCARCITY OF FOOD IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY--WILD VEGETABLES FOR GREENS--FAIR PROSPECTS FOR CROPS--CLOUDS OF CRICKETS LAY BARE THE FIELDS--PEOPLE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE PEST AL...

FIRST SABBATH IN TAHITI--MEET SEVERAL PERSONS WHOM I KNEW OVER FORTY YEARS BEFORE--HOW THEY REMEMBERED ME--SEEK PERMISSION TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS--WIDOW OF MY OLD FRIEND, JOHN...

ON THE GILA RIVER--PIMA INDIAN VILLAGE--WELCOME GIFTS FROM THE PIMAS--AMONG THE MARICOPA INDIANS--ASLEEP ON THE TRAIL--VISIT PROM A BEAR--LOSS OF PROVISIONS THROUGH AN ATTEMPT T...

CONTENTMENT AMONG THE SAINTS IN GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY--RUDE DWELLINGS AND SHORT RATIONS--TRYING EXPERIENCES--RESCUE OF MORMON BATTALION MEMBERS FROM STARVATION--CARRY NEWS OF T...

I CALLED ON A MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES--JOURNEY EASTWARD--VISIT RELATIVES EN ROUTE--REACH NEW YORK--MEASURED FOR AN ARTIFICIAL LIMB--HOW IT WAS PAID FOR--VISIT AND PREACH--M...

CITY MARSHALL AND DOCTOR COME TO REMOVE ME--TAKEN TO A DESERTED HOUSE, WHICH HAD BEEN USED AS A SHEEPFOLD--BEDDED IN SHEEP MANURE--AN INDIAN NURSE WHO BECOMES FRIGHTENED--SPANIS...

SAILING FOR THE SOUTH PACIFIC--SEVERE ATTACK OF SEASICKNESS--BECALMED IN THE TROPICS--INTENSE HEAT--MARQUESAS ISLANDS--CANNIBALS--REACH TAHITI--LAND AT PAPEETE--MEET WITH FRIEND...

REPORT MY MISSION--PREPARE TO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY TO UTAH--HAVE TO REMAIN AT SAN BERNARDINO FOR A TIME--SICKNESS AMONG THE PEOPLE--INSTANCES OF HEALING BY ADMINISTRATION--ENGAG...

GO TO TEMARAIA--MIRACULOUS HEALINGS--CHILD ASSAILED BY AN EVIL SPIRIT--STRANGE OCCURRENCE--GIFT OF SEA BISCUITS--PERFORM A SURGICAL OPERATION--HAMMERING OUT TEETH--THE WRITER AS...

VISIT TO PAPEETE--DUCK-HUNTING TRIP--A PECULIAR WOMAN--ALONG A PERILOUS PATH--AN OPINION OF ENGLISH MINISTERS--ARRIVAL OF ELDER S. A. DUNN--LEARN OF MORE MISSIONARIES ARRIVING A...

REMOVE FROM OGDEN TO SALT LAKE CITY AT THE REQUEST OF PRESIDENT YOUNG--NECESSITY FOR PREACHING AMONG THE SAINTS--IN THE EMPLOY OF PRESIDENT YOUNG--ON ANOTHER MISSION, THIS TIME...

HOLD CONFERENCE IN PUTUHARA--INSTRUCTIONS TO THE SAINTS--GO TO OTAPIPI--OPPOSITION AT TEMARAIA--OFFICIALS BRIBED BY CATHOLIC PRIESTS --ARRIVAL OF A FRENCH WARSHIP--THE WRITER IS...

CALLED ON A MISSION TO GREAT BRITAIN--PREPARE TO DEPART--START WITHOUT PURSE OR SCRIP--JOURNEY TO SALT LAKE CITY--SET APART FOR THE MISSION--BEGIN THE JOURNEY EASTWARD--ORGANIZA...

RETURN TO HUAUA--HEAVY RAINSTORMS--REFUSAL OF AN OFFER TO BE CARRIED OVER A STREAM--PERILOUS SWIMMING FEAT--EPISODE WITH A WILD BOAR--START ON A TRIP AROUND THE ISLAND--OBTAIN A...

JOURNEYING TOWARD THE GOLD DIGGINGS--THREATENED BY WILD HORSES--DIFFICULTIES OF TRAVELING--CONVOCATION OF THE FEATHERED CREATION--REJOIN OUR FRIENDS--FERRYING ACROSS A RIVER--ST...

INVITED TO ORGANIZE SCHOOLS--CATHOLIC PRIESTS DISPLEASED AT MORMON SUCCESS--GOOD ATTENDANCE AT THE SCHOOLS--THREATS BY THE PRIESTS--DISCOMFITURE OF THE LATTER--FEAST AND ADDRESS...

SEVERAL BAPTISMS--VISIT PAPARA AGAIN--COLDNESS OF THE PEOPLE--BITTER EFFORTS OF THE PROTESTANT MINISTERS--NATIVES VISIT ME IN SECRET--ANTI-MORMON MASS MEETING--FOOLISH AND VICIO...

LONG TIME WITHOUT NEWS FROM HOME--LETTER FROM ELDER B. F. GROUARD--RELEASED FROM MY MISSIONARY LABORS IN THE ISLANDS--LITTLE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE RAIVAVAI--NATIVES BUILD A SCHOO...

MIRACULOUS HEALING--MEET AND CONFOUND THE JOSEPHITES--FURTHER MISSIONARY SUCCESS--MEET A NATIVE WHO WAS PRESENT WHEN I WAS SENTENCED TO BE BURNED--ELDER JOHN LAYTON'S GRAVE--ARR...

DETERMINE TO PREACH TO THE PEOPLE--REFUSED A HOUSE--HOLD AN OPEN-AIR MEETING--STRANGE CONGREGATION--SIX OTHER MEETINGS--VISIT A NATIVE KING--HE COMMANDS ME TO LEAVE--I DO SO IN...

ENGAGED AS INTERPRETER--CLASS OF PEOPLE AT GREEN RIVER--APPOINTED DEPUTY SHERIFF--DROVER THREATENS TO KILL BOATMEN--ARREST ORDERED--RIDE INTO THE OUTLAWS' CAMP--BLUFFING THE CAP...

CAUGHT IN A SNOWSTORM--VIA THE SANTA CLARA AND RIO VIRGEN TO THE MUDDY--NEWS OF SAD DISASTER TO THE EMIGRANT COMPANY--MAKING CHARCOAL AND NAILS--AN APOSTLE AS A BLACKSMITH--SEAR...

CROSSING OF THE KAW RIVER--INDIAN FARMERS--FIERCE STORM ON STONE COAL CREEK--CROSSING A CREEK WITH PRECIPITOUS BANKS--RUINS OF AN ANCIENT CITY--WAGONLOAD OF SICK UPSET IN A STRE...

VISIT VARIOUS PLACES OF INTEREST IN NEW YORK AND VICINITY--ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN--PREACH AT WILLIAMSBURG--NEW YORK'S CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH--MY THIRTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY-...

This was the 24th day of January, 1848. When we had got partly to work, Mr. Marshall came, with his old wool hat in his hand. He stopped within six or eight yards of the sawpit,...

PROLONGED ILLNESS--ATTEND TO MY DUTIES WITH DIFFICULTY--LETTER TELLING OF THE BATTLE OF BULL'S RUN--WITNESS AN EXECUTION BY HANGING--VISIT FROM GEORGE Q. CANNON, JOSEPH F. SMITH...

MORMON BATTALION MUSTERED OUT OF SERVICE--ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEMBERS ORGANIZE TO RETURN EAST TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS--START ON THE JOURNEY--DIFFICULTIES OF THE ROUTE--DEALING...

ANOTHER MISSION TO THE INDIANS--START FOR THE SHOSHONE CAMP--DIFFICULTIES OF TRAVEL--NEAR THE CROWS AND BLACKFEET--A DREAM GIVES WARNING OF DANGER--DISCOVER A LARGE BODY OF INDI...

SET APART BY ELDER HYDE FOR OUR SPECIAL MISSION--BLESSING CONFERRED ON THE WRITER--DISCONTENT IN CAMP--UNITY AGAIN PREVAILS--START ON OUR JOURNEY--WARNED AT GREEN RIVER TO GO NO...

START FOR THE BATTALION RENDEZVOUS--A JOURNEY OF HARDSHIP--IN THE MORMONS' CAMP ON THE MISSOURI RIVER--FIRST EXPERIENCES IN THE ARMY--BLESSED BY APOSTLES--PROPHETIC ADDRESS BY P...

PEOPLE GATHER AT A FEAST, AND TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH THE MORMONS--THREATS TO HAVE ROAST MISSIONARY--SAINTS HOLD PRAYER AND TESTIMONY MEETING--KEPT AWAKE ALL NIGHT--COUNCIL OF...

ON THE TRAIL TO TUCSON--EXCITEMENT IN THE TOWN--MEET MEXICAN SOLDIERS--OUR NUMBERS OVERRATED BY THE INDIANS--MEXICAN COMMANDER UNDER ORDERS TO OPPOSE US--COLONEL COOKE ANNOUNCES...

AFFAIRS AT HOME--START FOR FORT SUPPLY--ILLNESS OF MYSELF AND FAMILY--GIFT OF HEALING--TROUBLE WITH INDIANS AT FORT SUPPLY--TURBULENT RED MEN--I HELP ONE OFF MY BED--THEY PERSIS...

PREACHING AND VISITING--PEARL FISHING--PLACE OF MY ARREST IN 1851--ACCIDENT TO A YOUNG MAN--INCIDENT WITH THE GOVERNOR OF ANAA--SEE A LEPER--CAPTURE OF AN EEL--CONFERENCE ON ANA...

LEAVING TAHITI UNDER THE ORDER OP BANISHMENT--SUPPLY OF PROVISIONS EXHAUSTED--CAUGHT IN A CALM--SUFFERING FROM LACK OF FOOD--REACH TUBUOI--GO ASHORE UPON INVITATION OF THE QUEEN...

EXEMPLAR'S CONDUCT OF THE MORMON TROOPS--LIEUTENANT COLONEL P. ST. GEORGE COOKE ARRIVES AND ASSUMES COMMAND--A WELCOME CHANGE--ANOTHER DETACHMENT OP SICK, ALSO THE LAUNDRESSES,...

OFF ON ANOTHER SCOUT--AGAIN ON BEAR RIVER--DREAM OF SEEING TROOPS--DREAM FULFILLED--SEND WORD BACK OF DISCOVERY--FIVE HUNDRED CAVALRYMEN--HEAVY STORM--MY ONLY REMAINING COMPANIO...

WASHAKIE'S BOLD ATTITUDE--TELLS HIS COUNCILORS THEY ARE FOOLS--SAYS THE WHITE MEN, WHO ARE WISE, HAVE BOOKS--TELLS THE TRADITION OF HOW THE INDIANS FELL INTO DARKNESS--GREAT SPI...

ON THE SUMMIT OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS--CROSSING THE BACKBONE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT--REVIEW OF THE JOURNEY--GRAVES OPENED BY WOLVES--MUTILATED BODIES--AN UNPARALLELED JO...

TRIP TO CALIFORNIA--MET BY THE COMMITTEE ON RECEPTION OF THE SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS--RECEIVED WITH GREAT CORDIALITY--HONORED GUESTS AT CALIFORNIA'S GOLDEN JUBILEE--THE C...

MORMONS ABANDON THEIR HOMES AND MOVE SOUTH--PREPARE FOR THE WORST--GO TO PAYSON--AFFAIRS BEING SETTLED, RETURN TO OGDEN--CALLED TO GO EAST AS A MISSIONARY--JOURNEY ACROSS THE PL...

VOYAGE TO PAPEETE--IN A TAHITIAN DUNGEON--CRUEL TREATMENT--WRITE TO FRIENDS--KINDNESS OF THE AMERICAN HOTEL KEEPER--BROUGHT BEFORE THE GOVERNOR--FALSE CHARGES READ, AND PLEA OF...

UTAH MILITIA ORGANIZED--ELECTED CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY--HEAR OF JOHNSTON'S ARMY--SCOUTING PARTY SENT OUT--I AM CHOSEN AS GUIDE--TRAVEL TO THE BEAR LAKE COUNTRY--COLD NIGHTS AND LI...

HOME OF THE AUTHOR--A CAREER OF THRILLING EXPERIENCES--HIS BIRTH AND PARENTAGE--EARLY AVOCATIONS--MIGRATION PROM NORTH CAROLINA TO ILLINOIS--LIFE ON THE FRONTIER--DANGERS TO EAR...

INVITED TO THE MIDWINTER FAIR, SAN FRANCISCO, AND ACCEPT--JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA--KIND TREATMENT RECEIVED--AN HONORED GUEST--WRITE A PAMPHLET ON THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD AT SUTTER'S...

PUSHING TO THE WEST--OVERHEARING A CONVERSATION WITH COL. COOKE--THE COLONEL FEARS THE MEN WILL STARVE--NO BERRIES, NOT EVEN BARK OF TREES, FOR FOOD--TRUE STATE OF AFFAIRS AS TO...

CALLED ON A MISSION TO DEEP CREEK INDIANS--SHORT TIME FOR THE JOURNEY--PREPARE FOR THE TRIP--JOURNEY IN THE DESERT--HORSES STOLEN--TRAVEL ON FOOT--SAVED FROM PERISHING WITH THIR...

CONSTERNATION AT WASHAKIE'S DECLARATION--PEOPLE HURRY ACROSS THE RIVER--THE WRITER IS ASKED TO ATTEMPT A RECONCILIATION--NIGHT TOO DARK TO TRAVEL--CHIEF WASHAKIE AND BRAVES APPE...

START FOR NAUVOO--TAKEN SEVERELY ILL--THE LORD ANSWERS MY PRAYER FOR RELIEF--PASS THROUGH CARTHAGE--IN NAUVOO "THE BEAUTIFUL," BUT ALMOST DESERTED CITY--SCENE ON THE IOWA SHORE-...

GO TO FORT SUPPLY--START BACK TO GREEN RIVER AND MEET O. P. ROCKWELL AT FORT BRIDGER--HE BRINGS ME A TRADER'S LICENSE, ALSO GOODS TO TRADE TO THE INDIANS--BEING LATE IN THE SEAS...

BECOME DESPERATELY ILL--NURSED BACK TO CONSCIOUSNESS--KINDNESS OF AN AGED SPANISH COUPLE--BELT WITH MONEY ENTRUSTED TO ME DISAPPEARS--INTENSE ANXIETY--DISCOVER THE MONEY--GREAT...

VISITED BY PRESIDENT JOSEPH F. SMITH--CALLED ON ANOTHER MISSION TO THE SOCIETY ISLANDS--PREPARE TO RESPOND--A BLESSING BY APOSTLE LORENZO SNOW--APPOINTED TO PRESIDE OYER THE SOC...

HEARTY WELCOME IN TUBUOI--START FOR TUAMOTU--REACH PAPEETE, TAHITI--VISIT TO HUAUA--LEAVE TAHITI--WRITER GETS RELIEF FROM SEASICKNESS--BROILED FISH AND COCOANUTS--IN A SCHOOL OF...

AGAIN AT MISSIONARY LABORS--BAPTISMS--BECOME QUITE ILL--APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF THE NOTTINGHAM DISTRICT, EMBRACING THREE CONFERENCES--VISITED BY APOSTLES A. M. LYMAN, C. C. RICH...

TERM OF ENLISTMENT EXPIRES--BATTALION MEMBERS PREPARING TO RETURN TO THEIR FAMILIES--ONE COMPANY RE-ENLISTS--AN INSOLENT SPANIARD--PISTOL SNAPPED IN THE WRITER'S FACE--ALMOST A...

OFFER OF TRANSPORTATION TO THE ISLAND OF TUBUOI--APPLY TO THE GOVERNOR FOR PERMISSION TO GO--TROOPS ON PARADE--SUITE OF QUEEN POMERE--CALL ON THE GOVERNOR--CONVERSATION IN THREE...

ARRIVE AT SAN FRANCISCO--A WRECKED SHIP--THE ABYSSINIA CONDEMNED--GATHERING WRECKAGE--DRUNKEN SAILORS--MY TRUNK HELD FOR HOSPITAL FEES--GO ASHORE, WHERE ALL IS CHANGED AND STRAN...

WATCHED CLOSELY BY GEN D' ARMES--EXPERIENCE WHEN AT PRAYER--TAKE DINNER WITH REV. MR. HOWE--DINING WITH A CATHOLIC BISHOP--IMPATIENCE OF THE GOVERNOR--LEAVE TAHITI ON THE ABYSSI...

START HOME FROM FORT SUPPLY--CAMP ALONE AT NEEDLE ROCK--AWAKENED BY MY HORSE--SURROUNDED BY WOLVES--FLASH POWDER ALL NIGHT TO KEEP OFF THE WILD BEASTS--REACH HOME--SUPPLIES SHOR...

PERSECUTED BY PLAYMATES--GIVE THEM AN EFFECTIVE CHECK--FIGHT WITH WILD BEASTS--PARENTS JOIN THE MORMONS--THE AUTHOR HOLDS BACK--ASSASSINATION OF JOSEPH AND HYRUM SMITH--MORMONS...

ARRIVAL OF MEMBERS OF THE MORMON BATTALION AT SUTTER'S FORT OPENS THE WAY FOR THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA--JAMES W. MARSHALL OUT EARLY ON JANUARY 24, 1848--"HE IS GOING...

One evening, soon afterward, I overheard them talking of the matter. Father said it would break up the family if they did not move west, for Jim certainly would go; they were sa...

Leave Washakie's Camp for the Other Portion of the Shoshone Tribe--Indian Guide Leaves us--Following a Trail--Sight the Other Camp--War Songs and Dances--Indians Preparing for W...

Scarcity of Food in the Great Salt Lake Valley--Wild Vegetables for Greens--Fair Prospects for Crops--Clouds of Crickets lay Bare the Fields--People struggle Against the Pests A...

On the Gila River--Pima Indian Village--Welcome Gifts from the Pimas--Among the Maricopa Indians--Asleep on the Trail--Visit from a Bear--Loss of Provisions Through an Attempt t...

People Gather at a Feast, and to Decide what to do with the Mormons--Threats to have Roast Missionary--Saints hold Prayer and Testimony Meeting--Kept Awake all Night--Council of...

Remove from Ogden to Salt Lake City at the Request of President Young--Necessity for Preaching among the Saints--In the Employ of President Young--On Another Mission, this time...

Prepare to Leave California--Snow in the Mountains Causes a Wait till the Last of June--Discover a Rich Gold Prospect--Leave it to Make the Journey over the Mountains--No Regret...

Become Desperately Ill--Nursed Back to Consciousness--Kindness of an Aged Spanish Couple--Belt with Money Entrusted to me Disappears--Intense Anxiety--Discover the Money--Great...

Called on a Mission to the United States--Journey Eastward--Visit Relatives en Route--Reach New York--Measured for an Artificial Limb--How It was Paid for--Visit and Preach--Mee...

Report my Mission--Prepare to Continue the Journey to Utah--Have to Remain at San Bernardino for a Time--Sickness among the People--Instances of Healing by Administration--Engag...

Travel on Foot to Ogden--Well Received by Relatives and Friends--Reply to Inquiries by the People Regarding the Society Islands and the Inhabitants Thereof--Called to go to Fort...

Attend Meetings with the First Presidency and Apostles--More Missionaries called to Arizona--Many Inquiries Regarding the Mission--Outline the Route--Preparations for Travel--St...

Leaving Tahiti under the Order of Banishment--Supply of Provisions Exhausted--Caught in a Calm--Suffering from Lack of Food--Reach Tubuoi--Go Ashore upon Invitation of the Queen...

Pushing to the West--Overhearing a Conversation with Col. Cooke--The Colonel Fears the Men Will Starve--No Berries, not even Bark Of Trees, for Food--True State of Affairs as to...

City Marshal and Doctor Come to Remove me--Taken to a Deserted House, which had been Used as a Sheepfold--Bedded In Sheep Manure--An Indian Nurse who Becomes Frightened--Spanish...

Prolonged Illness--Attend to my Duties with Difficulty--Letter Telling of the Battle of Bulls Run--Witness an Execution by Hanging--Visit from George Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith...

First Sabbath in Tahiti--Meet Several Persons whom I Knew over Forty Years Before--How they Remembered me--Seek Permission to hold Public Meetings--Widow of my Old Friend, John...

On the Trail to Tucson--Excitement In the Town--Meet Mexican Soldiers--Our Numbers Overrated by the Indians--Mexican Commander under Orders to Oppose us--Colonel Cooke Announces...

Mormon Battalion Mustered out of Service--One Hundred and Fifty Members Organize to Return Fast to the Rocky Mountains--Start on the Journey--Difficulties of the Route--Dealing...

Arrival of the Members of Mormon Battalion at Sutter's Fort Opens the Way for the Discovery of Gold In California--James W. Marshall out Early on January 24, 1848--"He is Going...

Miraculous Healing--Meet and Confound the Josephites--Further Missionary Success--Meet a Native who was Present when I was Sentenced to be Burned--Elder John Layton's Grave--Arr...

Trip to California--Met by the Committee on Reception of the Society of California Pioneers--Received with Great Cordiality--Honored Guests at California's Golden Jubilee--The C...

Determine to Preach to the People--Refused a House--Hold an Open-Air Meeting--Strange Congregation--Six other Meetings--Visit a Native King--He Commands me to Leave--I do so In...

Called on a Mission to Great Britain--Prepare to Depart--Start Without Purse or Scrip--Journey to Salt Lake City--Set Apart for the Mission --Begin the Journey Eastward--Organiz...

Preaching and Visiting--Pearl Fishing--Place of my Arrest in 1851--Accident to a Young Man--Incident with the Governor of Anaa--See a Leper--Capture of an Eel--Conference on Ana...

Long time without News from Home--Letter from Elder B. F. Grouard--Released from my Missionary Labors in the Islands--Little Opportunity to Leave Raivavai--Natives Build a Schoo...

Caught in a Snowstorm--Via the Santa Clara and Rio Virgen to the Muddy--News of Sad Disaster to the Emigrant Company--Making Charcoal and Nails--An Apostle as a Blacksmith--Sear...

Voyage to Papeete--In a Tahitian Dungeon--Cruel Treatment--Write to Friends--Kindness of the American Hotel Keeper--Brought Before the Governor--False Charges Read, and Plea of...

Invited To the Midwinter Fair, San Francisco, and Accept--Journey to California--Kind Treatment Received--An Honored Guest--Write a Pamphlet on the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's...

On the Summit of the Rocky Mountains--Crossing the Backbone of the North American Continent--Review of the Journey--Graves Opened by Wolves--Mutilated Bodies--An Unparalleled Jo...

Go to Fort Supply--Start back to Green River and meet O.P. Rockwell at Fort Bridger--He brings me a Trader's License, also Goods to Trade to the Indians--Being Late in the Seaso...

Ordered to San Diego--First View of the Pacific Ocean--Rumors of the Enemy--Complimentary Order, by Lieut. Col. Cooke, on the Achievements of the Mormon Battalion--Reported Host...

Hearty Welcome in Tubuoi--Start for Tuamotu--Reach Papeete, Tahiti--Visit to Huaua--Leave Tahiti--Writer gets Relief from Seasickness--Broiled Fish and Cocoanuts--in a School of...

Home of the Author--A Career of Thrilling Experiences--His Birth and Parentage--Early Avocations--Migration from North Carolina to Illinois--Life on the Frontier--Dangers to Ear...

Off on Another Scout--Again on Bear River--Dream of Seeing Troops--Dream Fulfilled--Send Word back of Discovery--Five Hundred Cavalrymen--Heavy Storm--My only Remaining Companio...

Crossing of the Kaw River--Indian Farmers--Fierce Storm on Stone Coal Creek--Crossing a Creek with Precipitous Banks--Ruins of an Ancient City--Wagonload of Sick Upset in a Stre...

Sailing for the South Pacific--Severe Attack of Seasickness--Becalmed in the Tropics--Intense Heat--Marquesas Islands--Cannibals--Reach Tahiti--Land at Papeete--Meet with Friend...

Set Apart by Elder Hyde for our Special Mission--Blessing Conferred on the Writer--Discontent In Camp--Unity Again Prevails--Start on our Journey--Warned at Green River to go no...

Go to Temaraia--Miraculous Healings--Child Assailed by an Evil Spirit--Strange Occurrence--Gift of Sea Biscuits--Perform a Surgical Operation--Hammering out Teeth--The Writer as...

Again in Arizona--Settling Difficulties Among the People--Our Reservoir Bursts--News of Notable Events--Prepare to Repel an Indian Raid--Indians Quarrel, and the Trouble Passes...

Start for Nauvoo--Taken Severely Ill--The Lord Answers my Prayer for Relief--Pass through Carthage--In Nauvoo "The Beautiful," but Almost Deserted City--Scene on the Iowa Shore-...

Exemplary Conduct of the Mormon Troops--Lieutenant Colonel P. St. George Cooke Arrives and Assumes Command--A Welcome Change--Another Detachment of Sick, also the Laundresses, S...

Scarcity of Food--Traveling In Heavy Rains--Call on a Protestant Minister--Arrival of Another Missionary and Letters from Home--Visitors from Metia--Hold a Sacrament Meeting--Go...

Visited by President Joseph F. Smith--Called on Another Mission to the Society Islands--Prepare To Respond--A Blessing by Apostle Lorenzo Snow--Appointed to Preside over the Soc...

Several Baptisms--Visit Papara Again--Coldness of the People--Bitter Efforts of the Protestant Ministers--Natives Visit Me In Secret--Anti-Mormon Mass Meeting--Foolish and Vicio...

Hold Conference in Putuhara--Instructions to the Saints--Go to Otapipi--Opposition at Temaraia--Officials Bribed by Catholic Priests--Arrival of a French Warship--The Writer is...

Affairs at Home--Start for Fort Supply--Illness of myself and Family--Gift of Healing--Trouble with Indians at Fort Supply--Turbulent Red Men--I Help one off my Bed--They Persis...

Utah Militia Organized--Elected Captain of a Company--Hear of Johnston's Army--Scouting Party sent out--I am Chosen as Guide--Travel to the Bear Lake Country--Cold Nights and Li...

Visit Various Places of Interest in New York and Vicinity--Arrival of the Great Eastern--Preach at Williamsburg--New York's Celebration of the Fourth--My Thirty-second Birthday-...

Persecuted by Playmates--Give Them an Effective Check--Fight with Wild Beasts--Parents Join the Mormons--The Author Holds Back--Assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith--Mormons...

Offer of Transportation to the Island of Tubuol--Apply to the Governor for Permission to go--Troops on Parade--Suite of Queen Pomere--Call on the Governor--Conversation in Three...

Visit to Papeete--Duck-Hunting Trip--A Peculiar Woman--Along a Perilous Path--An Opinion of English Ministers--Arrival of S. A. Dunn--Learn of More Missionaries Arriving at Tubu...

Engaged as interpreter--Class of People at Green River--Appointed Deputy Sheriff--Drover Threatens to Kill Boatmen Arrest Ordered--Ride into the Outlaws' Camp--Bluffing the Capt...

Invited to Organize Schools--Catholic Priests Displeased at Mormon Success--Good Attendance at the Schools--Threats by the Priests--Discomfiture of the Latter--Feast and Address...

Arrive at San Francisco--A Wrecked Ship--The _Abyssinia_ Condemned--Gathering Wreckage--Drunken sailors--My Trunk Held for Hospital Fees--Go Ashore, where all Is Changed and Str...

Consternation at Washakie's Declaration--People Hurry across the River--The Writer is Asked to Attempt a Reconciliation--Night too Dark to Travel--Chief Washakie and Braves Appe...

Again at Missionary Labors--Baptisms--Become Quite Ill--Appointed President of the Nottingham District, Embracing three Conferences--Visited by Apostles A. M. Lyman, C. C. Rich...

Return to Huahua--Heavy Rainstorms--Refusal of an Offer to be Carried Over a Stream--Perilous Swimming Feat--Episode with a Wild Boar--Start on a Trip Around the Island--Obtain...

Start for the Battalion Rendezvous--A Journey of Hardship--In the Mormons' Camp on Missouri River--First Experiences in the Army--Blessed by Apostles--Prophetic Address by Presi...

Term of Enlistment Expires--Battalion Members Preparing to Return to their Families--One company Re-enlists--An Insolent Spaniard--Pistol Snapped in the Writer's Face--Almost a...

Watched Closely by Gen d'Armes--Experience when at Prayer--Take Dinner with the Rev. Mr. Howe--Dining with a Catholic Bishop--Impatience of the Governor--Leave Tahiti on the _Ab...

Given Charge of a Company to Cross the Plains to Utah--Composition of the Camp--Start West--Perform Baptisms--Meet a War Party of Sioux Indians--Place where A. W. Babbitt was Ki...

Contentment Among the Saints in Great Salt Lake Valley--Rude Dwellings and Short Rations--Trying Experiences--Rescue of Mormon Battalion Members from Starvation--Carry News of C...

Washakie's Bold Attitude--Tells his Councilors they are Fools--Says the White Men, who are Wise, have Books--Tells the Tradition of how the Indians fell into Darkness--Great Spi...

Journeying Toward the Gold Diggings--Threatened by Wild Horses--Difficulties of Traveling--Convocation of the Feathered Creation--Rejoin Our Friends--Ferrying Across a River--St...

Another Mission to the Indians--Start for the Shoshone Camp--Difficulties of Travel--Near the Crows and Blackfeet--A Dream gives Warning of Danger--Discover a Large Body of Indi...

Called on a Mission to Deep Creek Indians--Short Time for the Journey--Prepare for the Trip--Journey in the Desert--Horses Stolen--Travel on Foot--Saved from Perishing with Thir...

Mormons Abandon their Homes and Move South--Prepare for the Worst--Go to Payson--Affairs Being Settled, Return to Ogden---Called to go East as a Missionary--Journey across the p...

Start Home from Fort Supply--Camp alone at Needle Rook--Awakened by my Horse--Surrounded by Wolves--Flash Powder all Night to keep off the Wild Beasts--Reach Home--Supplies Shor...