A frontier life [[electronic resource] ] : Jacob Hamblin, explorer and Indian missionary / / Todd M. Compton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462595103321
• Autore: Compton Todd <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1-60781-235-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (665 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.2/02092; B
• Soggetti: Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.); Indians of North America - Missions; Mormon Church; Electronic books.; Utah Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1) "A Vast Unsettled Wilderness"""; ""2) "He Preached What I Had Long Been Seeking For"""; ""3) "My Wife Violently Attacted with Colery"""; ""4) "When I Herd the Schreems of the Chirldin"""; ""5) "We Ware Mormans Thare White Brothers"""; ""6) "The Chief Shed Teers When He Saw Our Women and Children"""; ""7) "I was Apointed to Take Charge of the Mision"""; ""8) "The Gentiles are Fiting Up Steamers to Explore the Colerado"""; ""9 "In & through the Roughefist Country It Has Ever Been My Lot to Travel"""; ""10 "Mr. Hamblin Has Discharged His Duty"""""11) "Your Son . . . Partially Arose and Said Here I am Shot"""; ""12) "I Want You to Give Dilligent Heed to This Letter"""; ""13) "The Last Vestige of the Fort . . . Had Disappeared and in [Its] Place Roar Now the Wild Torrents of the River"""; ""14) "The Rocks Stand Up Biding Defiance to Wind and Weather in All Manner of Shapes"""; ""15) "The Hight of the Rock and Its Smooth Surfis on Each Side P[r]esented the Seenery Grand and Sublime"""; ""16) "A Raft was Built on Which Bro Hamblin and Dayton Crossed"""; ""17) "Why She Ever Married 'Old Jacob' Was a Mystery"""""18) "I Never Was So Ashamed of Anything in My Life"""; ""19) "They Begged Him to be Their Big Chief, Saying That They Had No Captains Left"""; ""20) "Started for the Canab Mision"""; ""21) "We Will Now Ack Knowlage but One Father Suck the Milk of One Mother"""; ""22) "I Was Not Happy Unless I Was Miserable, For I Knew Nothing Except Hardships"""; ""23) "A Slow-moving, Very Quiet Individual, Who Said He Was Jacob Hamblin"""; ""24) "They Died Off So Fast That There Were Hardly Any Left in a Short Time"""; ""25) "Jacob Whiled Away the Evening 'Yarning'"""""26) "We Wass the First Ones That Ever Crosed the Cilored with Wagons"""; ""27) "The Indians . . . Were Murdered in Cold Blood by One McCarthy and His Employees"""; ""28) "The Navajoes Carried on Quite an Extensive Trade with Our People"""; ""29) "If He Had His Choice He Should Desire to Live in Arizona"""; ""30) "The Watering Places Are All Occupide Buy the White Man"""; ""31) "He Had Always Led a Frontier Life"""; ""32) "I Am Now Located with a Part of My Family in Round Valley"""; ""33) "We Found a Nice Farm on the Frisco River"""; ""34) "In a Small Cabin in the High Mountains of New Mexico"""""35) "I Could Not Bare the Thought of Killing One of Them"""; ""Appendix A: Jacob Hamlin's Families ""; ""Appendix B: Jacob Hamlin's Trips to and across the Colorado ""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""