{"collection":"mor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/hou/hou02.htm","path":"mor/hou/hou02.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/mor/hou/hou02.htm","text":"History of Utah, 1540-1886, by Hubert Howe Bancroft, [1889]\n| CHAPTER I. | | \n| DISCOVERIES OF THE SPANIARDS. | | \n| 1540-1777. | | \n| | PAGE | \n| Francisco Vazquez de Coronado at Cibola\u2014Expedition of Pedro de Tobar and Father Juan de Padilla\u2014They Hear of a Large River\u2014Garcia Lopez de Cardenas Sent in Search of It\u2014The First Europeans to Approach Utah\u2014Route of Cardenas\u2014Mythical Maps\u2014Part of the Northern Mystery\u2014Journey of Dominguez and Escalante\u2014The Course They Followed\u2014The Rivers They Crossed\u2014The Comanches\u2014Region of the Great Lakes\u2014Rivers Timpanogos, San Buenaventura, and Others\u2014The Country of the Yutas\u2014Route from Santa F\u00e9 to Monterey\u2014The Friars Talk of the Lake Country\u2014Return of the Spaniards to Zu\u00f1i and March to Santa Fe | 1 | \n| CHAPTER II. | | \n| ADVENT OF TRAPPERS AND TRAVELLERS. | | \n| 1778-1846. | | \n| Invasion by Fur-hunters\u2014Baron la Hontan and his Fables\u2014The Popular Geographic Idea\u2014Discovery of the Great Salt Lake\u2014James Bridger Deciding a Bet\u2014He Determines the Course of Bear River, and Comes upon the Great Lake\u2014Henry, Ashley, Green, and Beckwourth on the Ground\u2014Fort Built at Utah Lake\u2014Peter Skeen Ogden\u2014Journey of Jedediah S. Smith\u2014A Strange Country\u2014Pegleg Smith\u2014Wolfskill, Yount, and Burton Traverse the Country\u2014Walker's Visit to California\u2014Some Old Maps\u2014The Bartleson Company\u2014Statements of Bidwell and Belden Compared\u2014Whitman and Lovejoy\u2014Fr\u00e9mont\u2014Pacific Coast Immigrations of 1845 and 1846\u2014Origin of the Name Utah | 18 | \n| CHAPTER III. | | \n| THE STORY OF MORMONISM. | | \n| 1820-1830. | | \n| A Glance Eastward\u2014The Middle States Sixty Years Ago\u2014Birth and Parentage of Joseph Smith\u2014Spiritual Manifestations\u2014Joseph Tells | | \n| p. xiv | | \n| | PAGE | \n| his Vision\u2014And is Reviled\u2014Moroni Appears\u2014Persecutions\u2014Copying the Plates\u2014Martin Harris\u2014Oliver Cowdery\u2014Translation\u2014The Book of Mormon\u2014Aarouic Priesthood Conferred\u2014Conversions\u2014The Whitener Family\u2014The Witnesses\u2014Spaulding Theory\u2014Printing of the Book\u2014Melchisedec Priesthood Conferred\u2014Duties of Elders and Others\u2014Church of Latter-day Saints Organized\u2014First Miracle\u2014First Conference\u2014Oliver Cowdery Ordered to the West | 36 | \n| CHAPTER IV. | | \n| THE STORY OF MORMONISM. | | \n| 1830-1835. | | \n| Parley Pratt's Conversion\u2014Mission to the Lamanites\u2014The Missionaries at Kirtland\u2014Conversion of Sidney Rigdon\u2014Mormon Success at Kirtland\u2014The Missionaries in Missouri\u2014Rigdon Visits Smith\u2014Edward Partridge\u2014The Melchisedec Priesthood Given\u2014Smith and Rigdon Journey to Missouri\u2014Bible Translation\u2014Smith's Second Visit to Missouri\u2014Unexampled Prosperity\u2014Causes of Persecutions\u2014Mobocracy\u2014The Saints are Driven from Jackson County\u2014Treachery of Boggs\u2014Military Organization at Kirtland\u2014The Name Latter-day Saints\u2014March to Missouri | 71 | \n| CHAPTER V. | | \n| THE STORY OF MORMONISM. | | \n| 1835-1840. | | \n| President Smith at Kirtland\u2014First Quorum of Twelve Apostles\u2014The Kirtland Temple Completed\u2014Kirtland Safety Society Bank\u2014In Zion Again\u2014The Saints in Missouri\u2014Apostasy\u2014Zeal and Indiscretion\u2014Military Organization\u2014The War Opens\u2014Depredations on Both Sides\u2014Movements of Atchison, Parks, and Doniphan\u2014Attitude of Boggs\u2014Wight and Gilliam\u2014Death of Patten\u2014Danite Organization\u2014Order Lodge\u2014Haun Mill Tragedy\u2014Mobs and Militia\u2014The Tables Turned\u2014Boggs\u2019 Exterminating Order\u2014Lucas and Clark at Far West\u2014Surrender of the Mormons\u2014Prisoners\u2014Petitions and Memorials\u2014Expulsion\u2014Gathering at Quincy\u2014Opinions | 111 | \n| CHAPTER VI. | | \n| THE STORY OF MORMONISM. | | \n| 1840-1844. | | \n| The City of Nauvoo\u2014Its Temple and University\u2014The Nauvoo Legion\u2014The Mormons in Illinois\u2014Evil Reports\u2014Revelation on Polygamy\u2014Its Reception and Practice\u2014The Prophet a Candidate for the Presidency\u2014The Nauvoo Expositor\u2014Joseph Arrested\u2014Governor Ford and his Measures\u2014Joseph and Hyrum Proceed to Carthage\u2014Their Imprisonment\u2014The Governor's Pledge\u2014Assassination of the Prophet | | \n| p. xv | | \n| | PAGE | \n| and his Brother\u2014Character of Joseph Smith\u2014A Panic at Carthage\u2014Addresses of Richards and Taylor\u2014Peaceful Attitude of the Mormons | 143 | \n| CHAPTER VII. | | \n| BRIGHAM YOUNG SUCCEEDS JOSEPH. | | \n| 1844-1845. | | \n| The Question of Succession\u2014Biography of Brigham Young\u2014His Early Life\u2014Conversion\u2014Missionary Work\u2014Made President of the Twelve\u2014His Devotion to the Prophet\u2014Sidney Rigdon and Brigham Young Rival Aspirants for the Presidency\u2014Rigdon's Claims\u2014Public Meetings\u2014Brigham Elected President of the Church\u2014His Character\u2014Temple-building\u2014Fresh Disasters\u2014The Affair at Morley\u2014The Men of Quincy and the Men of Carthage\u2014The Mormons Consent to Abandon their City | 193 | \n| CHAPTER VIII. | | \n| EXPULSION FROM NAUVOO. | | \n| 1845-1846. | | \n| A Busy City\u2014Meeting in the Temple\u2014Sacrifice of Property\u2014Detachments Move Forward\u2014A Singular Exodus\u2014The First Encampment\u2014Cool Proposal from Brother Brannan\u2014The Journey\u2014Courage and Good Cheer\u2014Swelling of their Numbers\u2014The Remnant of the Saints in Nauvoo\u2014Attitude of the Gentiles\u2014The Mormons Attacked\u2014Continued Hostilities\u2014The Final Departures\u2014The Poor Camp\u2014A Deserted City | 214 | \n| CHAPTER IX. | | \n| AT THE MISSOURI. | | \n| 1846-1847. | | \n| Native Races of the Missouri\u2014The Pottawattamies and the Omahas\u2014The Mormons Welcomed as Brethren\u2014War with Mexico\u2014California Territory\u2014Mexican Boundaries\u2014Application to the United States Government for Aid\u2014An Offer to Serve as Soldiers Accepted\u2014Organization of the Mormon Battalion\u2014Departure of the Battalion\u2014Bounty Money\u2014March across the Continent\u2014The Battalion in California\u2014Matters on the Missouri | 236 | \n| CHAPTER X. | | \n| MIGRATION TO UTAH. | | \n| 1547. | | \n| Camp Near the Missouri\u2014Preparations at Winter Quarters\u2014Departure of the Pioneer Band\u2014Elkhorn Rendezvous\u2014Route and Routine\u2014Incidents of Journey\u2014Approach to Zion\u2014In the Cation\u2014Hosannal | | \n| p. xvi | | \n| | PAGE | \n| [paragraph continues] Hallelujah!\u2014Entry into the Valley of the Great Salt Lake\u2014Ploughing and Planting\u2014Raying and Praising\u2014Site for a City Chosen Temple Block Selected\u2014Return of Companies to Winter Quarters\u2014Their Meeting with the Westward-bound\u2014General Epistle of the Twelve | 252 | \n| CHAPTER XI. | | \n| IN THE VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE. | | \n| 1848. | | \n| Food and Raiment\u2014Houses\u2014Home Manufactures\u2014The Fort\u2014Wild Beasts\u2014Cannon from Sutter's Fort\u2014Indian Children for Sale\u2014Measles\u2014Population\u2014Mills and Farming Machinery\u2014The Plague of Crickets\u2014They are Destroyed by Gulls\u2014Scarcity of Provisions\u2014The Harvest Feast\u2014Immigration\u2014Five Thousand Saints Gathered in the Valley\u2014Fencing and Farming\u2014Distribution of Lots\u2014Organization of County Government\u2014Association for the Extermination of Wild Beasts | 275 | \n| CHAPTER XII. | | \n| IN THE VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE. | | \n| 1849. | | \n| Food Supply and Shelter\u2014Building Lots\u2014Currency Issue\u2014Bank Notes and Coinage\u2014Private and Public Buildings\u2014Wide Area of the City\u2014Second Anniversary of the Pioneers\u2014Festivals and Amusements\u2014Labor a Duty among the Saints\u2014Effect of the California Gold Discovery\u2014Immigration\u2014Carrying Company\u2014California-bound Emigrants\u2014Their Traffic with the Mormons\u2014Products and Prices\u2014Gold-hunting Frowned upon by the Church | 288 | \n| CHAPTER XIII. | | \n| SETTLEMENT AND OCCUPATION OF THE COUNTRY. | | \n| 1847-1852. | | \n| Founding of Centreville\u2014Bountiful\u2014Ogden\u2014Lynne\u2014Easton\u2014Marriotsville\u2014San Pete\u2014Provo\u2014Indian War\u2014Walled Cities\u2014Evansville\u2014Lehi\u2014Battle Creek\u2014Pleasant Grove\u2014American Fork\u2014Payson\u2014Nephi\u2014Manti\u2014Chief Walker\u2014Fillmore\u2014Site Chosen for the Capital\u2014Tooele\u2014Grantsville\u2014Kaysville\u2014Little Salt Lake\u2014Parowan\u2014Cedar City\u2014Paragoonah\u2014Forts Walker and Harmony\u2014Box Elder Creek\u2014Brigham City\u2014Willard City\u2014San Bernardino in California. | 305 | \n| CHAPTER XIV. | | \n| EDUCATION, MANUFACTURES, COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, SOCIETY. | | \n| 1850-1852. | | \n| Boundaries and Extent of Utah\u2014Configuration and Physical Features of the Country\u2014Its Lands and Waters\u2014Flora and Fauna\u2014State University\u2014 | | \n| p. xvii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| [paragraph continues] Curriculum\u2014Educational Ideas\u2014Library\u2014Periodicals\u2014Tabernacle and Temple\u2014New Fort\u2014Progress of the Useful Arts\u2014Mills, Factories, and Manufactures\u2014Farm Products\u2014Traffic\u2014Population\u2014Revenue\u2014Mortality\u2014Healthful Airs and Medicinal Springs. | 321 | \n| CHAPTER XV. | | \n| MORMONISM AND POLYGAMY. | | \n| What is Mormonism?\u2014Tenets of the Church\u2014Sacred Books and Personages\u2014Organization\u2014Priesthood\u2014First Presidency\u2014The Twelve Apostles\u2014Patriarchs\u2014Elders, Bishops, Priests, Teachers, and Deacons\u2014The Seventies\u2014Stakes and Wards\u2014Marriage\u2014Temple-building\u2014Tabernacle\u2014Political Aspect\u2014Polygamy as a Church Tenet\u2014Celestial Marriage\u2014Attitude and Arguments of Civilization\u2014Polygamy's Reply\u2014Ethics and Law\u2014The Charge of Disloyalty\u2014Proposed Remedies | 333 | \n| CHAPTER XVI. | | \n| MISSIONS AND IMMIGRATION. | | \n| 1830-1883. | | \n| Mormon Missionaries\u2014Parley Pratt and his Colleagues\u2014Missionary Labor in Canada\u2014In Great Britain\u2014Missionaries in Europe\u2014And in Other Parts of the World\u2014The Perpetual Emigration Fund\u2014A General Epistle of the Twelve\u2014From Liverpool to Salt Lake City for Fifty Dollars\u2014Emigrant Ships\u2014Report of a Liverpool Manager\u2014The Passage to New Orleans\u2014Overland Travel\u2014Classes of Emigrants\u2014George A. Smith's Companies at South Pass\u2014The Handcart Emigration\u2014Biographical | 397 | \n| CHAPTER XVII. | | \n| UTAH AS A TERRITORY. | | \n| 1849-1858. | | \n| Need of Civil Government\u2014The State of Deseret Organized\u2014Memorials for Admission into the Union\u2014Proposed Consolidation with California\u2014Administration of Justice\u2014Proceedings of the Legislature\u2014Babbit's Reception at Washington\u2014The State of Deseret before Congress\u2014Act to Establish a Territorial Government\u2014Appointment of Officials\u2014Ill Feeling between Them and the Mormons\u2014The Officials Depart for Washington\u2014Measures of the Legislative Assembly\u2014Stansbury's Survey\u2014The Gunnison Massacre\u2014Indian Outbreaks\u2014The Walker War\u2014Mexican Slave-traders | 439 | \n| CHAPTER XVIII. | | \n| THE GOVERNMENT IN ARMS. | | \n| 1853-1857. | | \n| Brigham as Dictator\u2014Utah Seeks Admission as a State\u2014Dissatisfaction among the Saints\u2014Conflicting Judiciaries\u2014The New Federal Officials\u2014 | | \n| p. xviii | | \n| | PAGE | \n| [paragraph continues] Disputes with Judge Drummond\u2014Colonel Steptoe\u2014An Expedition Ordered to Utah\u2014Official Blunders\u2014The Troops Assemble at Fort Leavenworth\u2014Hockaday and Magraw's Mail Contract\u2014The Brigham Young Express\u2014Celebration of the Pioneer Anniversary\u2014News of the Coming Invasion\u2014Its Effect on the Mormons\u2014Arrival of Major Van Vliet\u2014The Nauvoo Legion\u2014Mormon Tactics | 481 | \n| CHAPTER XIX. | | \n| TIIE UTAH WAR. | | \n| 1857-1858. | | \n| Opening of the Campaign\u2014Burning of Supply Trains\u2014Strategic Movement of Colonel Alexander\u2014His Retreat\u2014Arrival of Albert Sidney Johnston\u2014The March to Fort Bridger\u2014Winter at Camp Scott\u2014Mission of Colonel Kane\u2014Governor Cumming at Salt Lake City\u2014Pardon Proclaimed\u2014The Peace Commissioners\u2014The Army of Utah Advances on Lion\u2014The City Deserted\u2014The Mormons Return to Their Homes\u2014The Troops Cantoned at Camp Floyd\u2014Conduct of the Soldiery and Camp Followers\u2014Judges Sinclair and Cradlebaugh\u2014The Reformation in Utah | 512 | \n| CHAPTER XX. | | \n| THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE. | | \n| 1857. | | \n| An Arkansas Emigrant Party Arrives at Salt Lake City\u2014Assassination of Parley P. Pratt\u2014Ill Feeling against the Emigrants\u2014Alleged Outrages\u2014Their Arrival at Mountain Meadows\u2014They are Attacked by Indians\u2014A Flag of Truce\u2014Plan of the Massacre\u2014Surrender of the Emigrants\u2014The Butchery\u2014Burial of the Slain\u2014The Survivors\u2014Judge Cradlebaugh's Investigation\u2014The Aiken Massacre\u2014John D. Lee on Trial\u2014The Jury Disagree\u2014The Second Trial\u2014Lee Convicted, and Sentenced\u2014His Confession and Execution | 543 | \n| CHAPTER XXI. | | \n| POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL. | | \n| 1859-1862. | | \n| Brigham Threatened with Arrest\u2014The Federal Judges Reproved\u2014Departure of Governor Cumming\u2014And of the Army of Utah\u2014Population of the Territory\u2014Mortality\u2014Wealth\u2014Industries\u2014PricesWages\u2014Trade\u2014Salt Lake City in 1860\u2014The Temple Block\u2014Social Gatherings\u2014Theatricals\u2014Scientific and Other Institutions\u2014Char.acter of the Population\u2014Carson Valley\u2014San Bernardino\u2014Summit County and Its Settlements\u2014Purchase of Fort Bridger\u2014Wasatch County\u2014Morgan County\u2014Cache Valley\u2014Settlements in Southern Utah | 572 | \n| p. xix | | \n| | PAGE | \n| CHAPTER XXII. | | \n| PROGRESS OF EVENTS, | | \n| 1861-1869. | | \n| Governor Dawson's Gallantry\u2014Utah Refused Admission as a State\u2014Passage of a Bill against Polygamy\u2014Measures of the Legislature\u2014Arrival of Governor Harding\u2014Disputes between Brigham and the Federal Officials\u2014Arrival of the California Volunteers\u2014A False Alarm\u2014The Morrisite Troubles\u2014Governors Doty and Durkee\u2014The Limits of Utah Curtailed\u2014Celebration of Lincoln's Second Inauguration\u2014The Brassfield and Robinson Murders\u2014Indian Outbreaks\u2014The Battle of Bear River\u2014Disturbances in Southern Utah\u2014Treaties with Indian Tribes\u2014The Uintah Valley Reservation\u2014Bibliographical | 604 | \n| CHAPTER XXIII | | \n| SCHISMS AND APOSTASIES. | | \n| 1844-1869. | | \n| The Strangites\u2014The Gatherers\u2014Brannan's Followers\u2014The Gladdenites\u2014The Reorganized Church of Latter-day Saints\u2014Alexander and David Hyrum Smith\u2014The Utah Magazine\u2014Trial of Godbe and Harrison\u2014Success of the Godbeite Movement\u2014The Struggle for Commercial Control\u2014Persecution of Gentile Merchants\u2014Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution\u2014Extent of its Operations\u2014Disastrous Effect on Gentile Trade\u2014Reaction in Favor of the Reformers | 641 | \n| CHAPTER XXIV. | | \n| THE LAST DAYS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. | | \n| 1869-1877. | | \n| Visit of Schuyler Colfax\u2014Godbe's Interview with President Grant\u2014Governor Shaffer\u2014Military Riot at Provo\u2014Governor Woods\u2014Judge McKean\u2014Burlesque of Justice\u2014Arrest of Brigham Young and Others\u2014George Q. Cannon Chosen Delegate\u2014Axtell's Administration\u2014Governor Emery\u2014Death of Brigham\u2014His Obsequies\u2014His Character\u2014His Will | 656 | \n| CHAPTER XXV. | | \n| CHURCH AND STATE. | | \n| 1877-1885. | | \n| Conference of the Church\u2014Reorganization of the First Presidency\u2014John Taylor Appointed President\u2014His Appearance and Mien\u2014The Edmunds Bill\u2014Its Penalties\u2014An Ex Post Facto Law\u2014Polygamists Disfranchised\u2014Utah again Refused Admission as a State\u2014Operations of the Utah Commission\u2014Governor Murray's Message\u2014His Administration | 677 | \n| p. xx | | \n| | PAGE | \n| CHAPTER XXVI. | | \n| SETTLEMENT, SOCIETY, AND EDUCATION. | | \n| 1862-1886. | | \n| Population and Statistics\u2014Salt Lake City\u2014The Temple\u2014The New Tabernacle\u2014The Museum\u2014Condition of the Inhabitants\u2014Distinctive Features\u2014Salt Lake County\u2014Davis County\u2014Ogden\u2014Cache County\u2014Rich County\u2014Summit County\u2014Brigham City\u2014Nephi\u2014Provo\u2014Uintah, Emery, San Juan, Garfield, and Piute Counties\u2014Sanpete and Sevier Counties\u2014Iron, Kane, and Washington Counties\u2014Schools\u2014The University of Deseret\u2014The Deseret Alphabet\u2014Libraries\u2014Journals and Journalism | 691 | \n| CHAPTER XXVII. | | \n| AGRICULTURE, STOCK-RAISING, MANUFACTURES, AND MINING. | | \n| 1852-1886. | | \n| Agricultural Products and Yield per Acre\u2014Irrigation\u2014Character of the Soil\u2014Fruit Culture\u2014Viticulture\u2014Sericulture\u2014Timber and Timberlands\u2014Bunch-grass\u2014Cattle-raising\u2014Dairy Products\u2014Horses\u2014Sheep\u2014Woollen Manufactures\u2014Leather\u2014Other Manufactures\u2014Iron-mining\u2014Coal-mining\u2014Copper\u2014Sulphur\u2014Gypsum and Mica\u2014Other Minerals\u2014Building Stone\u2014Gold and Silver\u2014The West Mountain District\u2014The Rush Valley District\u2014The Cottonwood District\u2014The American Fork District\u2014The Tintic District\u2014The Ontario Mine\u2014Other Mining Districts\u2014Mining Products\u2014Milling, Smelting, and Reduction-works | 720 | \n| CHAPTER XXVIII. | | \n| COMMERCE AND COMMUNICATION. | | \n| 1852-1885. | | \n| Common Roadways\u2014Railroads\u2014The Union and Central Pacific\u2014The Utah Central\u2014The Utah Southern\u2014The Utah and Northern\u2014The Utah Eastern\u2014The Salt Lake and Western\u2014The Utah and Nevada\u2014The Denver and Rio Grande Western\u2014Imports and Exports\u2014Commerce and Trade\u2014Banking\u2014Insurance\u2014Taxation and Revenue\u2014Mails and Mail Services\u2014The First Telegraphic Message\u2014The Deseret Telegraph Company | 751 | \n| INDEX | 785 |","title":"History of Utah, 1540-1886: Contents","type":"page"}