Sinners and Saints A Tour Across the States and Round Them, with Three Months Among the Mormons

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...

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...

"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...

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--...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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--...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...