Latter Day Saints
Fathers of Waters--"Rich Lands lie Flat"--The Misery River--Council Bluffs--A "Live" town, sir--Two murders: a contrast--Omaha--The immorality of "writing up"--On the prairies--The modesty of "Wish-ton-Wish"--The antelope's tower of refuge--Out of Nebraska into Colorado--Man-e...
Fathers of Waters--"Rich Lands lie Flat"--The Misery River--Council Bluffs--A "Live" town, sir--Two murders: a contrast--Omaha--The immorality of "writing up"--On the prairies--...
3. CHAPTER III.The South Park line--Oscar Wilde on sunflowers as food--In a wash-hand basin--Anti-Vigilance Committees--Leadville the city of the carbonates--"Busted" millionaires--The philoso...
4. CHAPTER IV.What is the conductor of a Pullman car?--Cannibalism fatal to lasting friendships--Starving Peter to feed Paul--Connexion between Irish cookery and Parnellism--Americans not smo...
5. CHAPTER V.Zion--Deseret--A City Of Two Peoples--"Work" the watch-word of Mormonism--A few facts to the credit of the Saints--The text of the Edmunds Bill--In the Mormon Tabernacle--The cl...
6. CHAPTER VI.A people under a ban--What the Mormon men think of the Anti-Polygamy Bill--And what the Mormon women say of polygamy--Puzzling confidences--Practical plurality a very dull affai...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.An unfulfilled prophecy--Had Brigham Young been still alive?--The hierarchy of Mormonism--The fighting Apostle and his colleagues--Plurality a revelation--Rajpoot infanticide: h...
9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.Mormonism and Mormonism--Salt Lake City not representative--The miracles of water--How settlements grow--The town of Logan: one of the Wonders of the West--The beauty of the val...
11. CHAPTER XI.Salt Lake City to Nephi--General similarity of the settlements--From Salt Lake Valley into Utah Valley--A lake of legends--Provo--Into the Juab valley--Indian reminiscences--Com...
12. CHAPTER XII.English companies and their failures--A deplorable neglect of claret cup--Into the San Pete Valley--Reminiscences of the Indians--The forbearance of the red man--The great templ...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Scandinavian Mormons--Danish ol--Among the orchards at Manti--On the way to Conference--Adam and Eve--The protoplasm of a settlement--Ham and eggs--At Mayfield--Our teamster's t...
14. CHAPTER XIV.From Glenwood to Salina--Deceptiveness of appearances--An apostate Mormon's friendly testimony--Reminiscences of the Prophet Joseph Smith--Rabbit-hunting in a waggon--Lost in th...
15. CHAPTER XV.16. CHAPTER XVI.17. CHAPTER XVII.18. CHAPTER XVIII.On the way to Panguitch--Section-houses not Mormon homes--Through wild country--Panguitch and its fish--Forbidden pleasures--At the Source of the Rio Virgin--The surpassing beau...
19. CHAPTER XIX.Red ants and anti-Mormons--Ignorance of the Mormons among Gentiles in Salt Lake City--Mormon reverence for the Bible--Their struggle against drinking-saloons in the city--Conspi...
20. CHAPTER XXI.Rich and ugly Nevada--Leaving Utah--The gift of the Alfalfa--Through a lovely country to Ogden--The great food devouring trick--From Mormon to Gentile: a sudden contrast--The so...
21. CHAPTER XXII.Of bugbears--Suggestions as to sleeping-cars--A Bannack chief, his hat and his retinue--The oasis of Humboldt--Past Carson Sink--A reminiscence of wolves--"Hard places"--First g...
22. CHAPTER XXIII.San Franciscans, their fruits and their falsehoods--Their neglect of opportunities--A plague of flies--The pigtail problem--Chinamen less black than they are painted--The seal r...
23. CHAPTER XXIV.24. CHAPTER XXV.25. CHAPTER XXVI.26. CHAPTER XXVII.27. CHAPTER XXVIII.28. CHAPTER XXIX.29. CHAPTER I."DOES the fast train to Chicago ever stop?" was the question of a bewildered English fellow-passenger, Westward-bound like myself, as I took my seat in the car of the Pennsylvan...
30. CHAPTER II.Fathers of Waters--"Rich Lands lie Flat"--The Misery River--Council Bluffs--A "Live" town, sir--Two murders: a contrast--Omaha--The immorality of "writing up"--On the prairies--...
31. CHAPTER III.The South Park line--Oscar Wilde on sunflowers as food--In a wash-hand basin--Anti-Vigilance Committees--Leadville the city of the carbonates--"Busted" millionaires--The philoso...
32. CHAPTER IV.What is the conductor of a Pullman Car?--Cannibalism fatal to lasting friendships--Starving Peter to feed Paul--Connexion between Irish cookery and Parnellism--Americans not smo...
33. CHAPTER V.Zion--Deseret--A City of Two Peoples--"Work" the watchword of Mormonism--A few facts to the credit of the Saints--The text of the Edmunds Bill--In the Mormon Tabernacle--The clo...
34. CHAPTER VI.A people under a ban--What the Mormon men think of the Anti-Polygamy Bill--And what the Mormon women say of polygamy--Puzzling confidences--Practical plurality a very dull affai...
35. CHAPTER VII.IT has been my good fortune to see many countries, and my ill-luck to have had to maintain, during all my travels, an appearance of intelligence. Though I have been over much of...
36. CHAPTER VIII.An unfulfilled prophecy--Had Brigham Young been still alive?--The hierarchy of Mormonism--The fighting Apostle and his colleagues--Plurality a revelation--Rajpoot infanticide: h...
37. CHAPTER IX.I HAPPENED some time ago to repeat, in the presence of two "Gentiles," a Mormon's remark that the Indians were more friendly towards the Saints than towards other Americans, and...
38. CHAPTER X.Mormonism and Mormonism--Salt Lake City not representative--The miracles of water--How settlements grow--The town of Logan: one of the Wonders of the West--The beauty of the val...
39. CHAPTER XI.Salt Lake City to Nephi--General similarity of the settlements--From Salt Lake Valley into Utah Valley--A lake of legends--Provo--Into the Juab valley--Indian reminiscences--Com...
40. CHAPTER XII.English companies and their failures--A deplorable neglect of claret cup--Into the San Pete Valley--Reminiscences of the Indians--The forbearance of the red man--The great templ...
41. CHAPTER XIII.Scandinavian Mormons--Danish ol--Among the Orchards at Manti--On the way to Conference--Adam and Eve--The protoplasm of a settlement--Ham and eggs--At Mayfield--Our teamster's t...
42. CHAPTER XIV.From Glenwood to Salina--Deceptiveness of appearances--An apostate Mormon's friendly testimony---Reminiscences of the Prophet Joseph Smith--Rabbit-hunting in a waggon--Lost in t...
43. CHAPTER XV.SITTING at the door next morning, I saw a very trimly-dressed damsel of twenty or thereabouts, coming briskly along under the trees, which there, as in every other Mormon settle...
44. CHAPTER XVI.LEAVING Munroe, we find cultivation gradually disappearing, and, after two or three miles, unmitigated brush supervenes. A steep divide now thrusts itself across the road, and,...
45. CHAPTER XVII.FROM the brow of the cedared hill south of Munroe a splendid view is obtained, and Piute County opens with fair promises; for a superb-looking valley, all natural meadow, lies s...
46. CHAPTER XVIII.On the way to Panguitch--Section-houses not Mormon homes--Through wild country--Panguitch and its fish--Forbidden pleasures--At the source of the Rio Virgin--The surpassing beau...
47. CHAPTER XIX.Red ants and anti-Mormons--Ignorance of the Mormons among Gentiles in Salt Lake City--Mormon reverence for the Bible--Their struggle against drinking-saloons in the city--Conspi...
48. CHAPTER XX.No, Mr. Sheridan, you could not; at least not in these latter days. Too many people do it now for the impostor to remain undiscovered. Take my own case, for instance. I had ofte...
49. CHAPTER XXI.Rich and ugly Nevada--Leaving Utah--The gift of the Alfalfa--Through a lovely country to Ogden--The great food-devouring trick--From Mormon to Gentile: a sudden contrast--The so...
50. CHAPTER XXII.Of Bugbears--Suggestions as to sleeping-cars--A Bannack chief, his hat and his retinue--The oasis of Humboldt--Past Carson Sink--A reminiscence of wolves--"Hard places"--First g...
51. CHAPTER XXIII.San Franciscans, their fruits and their falsehoods--Their neglect of opportunities--A plague of flies--The pig-tail problem--Chinamen less black than they are painted--The seal...
52. CHAPTER XXIV.I HAD looked forward to my journey from San Francisco to St. Louis with great anticipations, and, though I had no leisure to "stop off" on the tour, I was not disappointed. Six...
53. CHAPTER XXV.THE cactus is the Carlyle of vegetation. Here, in Southern California, it assumes many of its most uncouth and affected attitudes, puts on all its prickles and its angles, and i...
54. CHAPTER XXVI.YUMA marks the frontier between California and Arizona. But it might just as well mark the frontier between India and Beluchistan, for it reproduces with exact fidelity a portio...
55. CHAPTER XXVII."You see," I explained, "there are so many 'cities' on the Railway Companies' maps that one hardly dares to turn one's head from the window, lest one should let slip a few--so I...
56. CHAPTER XXVIII.IN the morning everything had changed. Vegetation was tropical. Black men had supplanted brown. Occasional tracts of rich meadow, with splendid cattle and large-framed horses wa...
57. CHAPTER XXIX.ARKANSAS remains on the mind (and the traveller's notebook) as a vast forest of fine timber standing in swamps. There are no doubt exceptions, but they do not suffice to affect...