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A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.