A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary.
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| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Utah Press, 2013. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- 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 TeersWhen 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.