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[1]Platte and Missouri Rivers. The expedition started May 14th.
[1]Platte and Missouri Rivers. The expedition started May 14th.
[2]To Washington.
[2]To Washington.
[3]The organization was military.
[3]The organization was military.
[4]Forty-one men, full musters.
[4]Forty-one men, full musters.
[5]A small cannon.
[5]A small cannon.
[6]Concerning this great race for life, it may appear impossible to some for a human being to accomplish such a feat. Those who survive of Sublet’s company, and who know the distances from point to point of my celebrated race, will please to correct me publicly if I am in error in the distance. I have known instances of Indian runners accomplishing more than one hundred and ten miles in one day.
[6]Concerning this great race for life, it may appear impossible to some for a human being to accomplish such a feat. Those who survive of Sublet’s company, and who know the distances from point to point of my celebrated race, will please to correct me publicly if I am in error in the distance. I have known instances of Indian runners accomplishing more than one hundred and ten miles in one day.
[7]This is Captain Jim Bridger, a celebrated Western character who figures in “A Frontier Duel.”
[7]This is Captain Jim Bridger, a celebrated Western character who figures in “A Frontier Duel.”
[8]Beckwourth had lived in the wilds for several years and might easily have been mistaken for an Indian.—Editor.
[8]Beckwourth had lived in the wilds for several years and might easily have been mistaken for an Indian.—Editor.
[9]Beckwourth left the Crows several years afterwards and lived for many years in California, where he was a celebrated character.—Editor.
[9]Beckwourth left the Crows several years afterwards and lived for many years in California, where he was a celebrated character.—Editor.
[10]Kit Carson, the celebrated scout.
[10]Kit Carson, the celebrated scout.
[11]Copyright, 1914, 1920, by Grace P. Coffin.
[11]Copyright, 1914, 1920, by Grace P. Coffin.
[12]Copyright, 1922, by Emerson Hough. Copyright, 1922, by the Curtis Publishing Co.
[12]Copyright, 1922, by Emerson Hough. Copyright, 1922, by the Curtis Publishing Co.
[13]Named for the celebrated Parker House in Boston.
[13]Named for the celebrated Parker House in Boston.
[14]Copyright, 1914, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
[14]Copyright, 1914, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
[15]Copyright, 1899, by Bret Harte.
[15]Copyright, 1899, by Bret Harte.
[16]“Ole Ephraim” is the mountain-man’ssobriquetfor the grizzly bear.
[16]“Ole Ephraim” is the mountain-man’ssobriquetfor the grizzly bear.
[17]I have frequently heard this legend from Gentiles, never from Mormons; yet even the Saints own that as early as 1842 visions of the mountains and kanyons, the valley and the lake, were revealed to Mr. Joseph Smith, jun., who declared it privily to the disciples whom he loved. Thus Messrs. O. Pratt and E. Snow, apostles, were enabled to recognize the Promised Land, as, the first of the pioneers, they issued from the ravines of the Wasach. Of course the Gentiles declare that the exodists hit upon the valley by the purest chance. The spot is becoming classical: here Judge and Apostle Phelps preached his “Sermon on the Mount,” which, anti-Mormons say, was a curious contrast to the first discourse so named.
[17]I have frequently heard this legend from Gentiles, never from Mormons; yet even the Saints own that as early as 1842 visions of the mountains and kanyons, the valley and the lake, were revealed to Mr. Joseph Smith, jun., who declared it privily to the disciples whom he loved. Thus Messrs. O. Pratt and E. Snow, apostles, were enabled to recognize the Promised Land, as, the first of the pioneers, they issued from the ravines of the Wasach. Of course the Gentiles declare that the exodists hit upon the valley by the purest chance. The spot is becoming classical: here Judge and Apostle Phelps preached his “Sermon on the Mount,” which, anti-Mormons say, was a curious contrast to the first discourse so named.
[18]I subjoin one of the promising sort of advertisements:“Tom Mitchell!!! dispenses comfort to the weary (!), feeds the hungry (!!), and cheers the gloomy (!!!), at his old, well-known stand, thirteen miles east of Fort Des Moines.Don’t pass by me.”
[18]I subjoin one of the promising sort of advertisements:
“Tom Mitchell!!! dispenses comfort to the weary (!), feeds the hungry (!!), and cheers the gloomy (!!!), at his old, well-known stand, thirteen miles east of Fort Des Moines.Don’t pass by me.”
[19]Poole—the celebrated London tailor.
[19]Poole—the celebrated London tailor.
[20]Alluding to one Thos. H. Ferguson, a Gentile; he killed, on Sept. 17th, 1859, in a drunken moment, A. Carpenter, who kept a boot and shoe store. Judge Sinclair, according to the Mormons, was exceedingly anxious that somebody should besus. per coll., and, although intoxication is usually admitted as a plea in the Western States, he ignored it, and hanged the man on Sunday. Mr. Ferguson was executed in a place behind the city; he appeared costumed in a Robin Hood style, and complained bitterly to the Mormon troops, who were drawn out, that his request to be shot had not been granted.
[20]Alluding to one Thos. H. Ferguson, a Gentile; he killed, on Sept. 17th, 1859, in a drunken moment, A. Carpenter, who kept a boot and shoe store. Judge Sinclair, according to the Mormons, was exceedingly anxious that somebody should besus. per coll., and, although intoxication is usually admitted as a plea in the Western States, he ignored it, and hanged the man on Sunday. Mr. Ferguson was executed in a place behind the city; he appeared costumed in a Robin Hood style, and complained bitterly to the Mormon troops, who were drawn out, that his request to be shot had not been granted.
[21]Copyright, 1890, by Nathaniel P. Langford. Copyright, 1912, by A. C. McClurg & Co.
[21]Copyright, 1890, by Nathaniel P. Langford. Copyright, 1912, by A. C. McClurg & Co.
[22]Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by Sheldon & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress.
[22]Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by Sheldon & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress.
[23]Copyright, 1871, 1899, by the American Publishing Company. Copyright, 1899, by Samuel L. Clemens. Copyright, 1913, by Clara Gabrilowitsch.
[23]Copyright, 1871, 1899, by the American Publishing Company. Copyright, 1899, by Samuel L. Clemens. Copyright, 1913, by Clara Gabrilowitsch.
[24]“The Vigilantes of Montana,” by Prof. Thos. J. Dimsdale.
[24]“The Vigilantes of Montana,” by Prof. Thos. J. Dimsdale.
[25]Copyright, 1885, by David McKay.
[25]Copyright, 1885, by David McKay.
[26]Copyright, 1891, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
[26]Copyright, 1891, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
[27]Copyright, 1880, by Harper and Brothers.
[27]Copyright, 1880, by Harper and Brothers.
[28]Copyright, 1895, by Harper and Brothers. Copyright, 1923, by Owen Wister.
[28]Copyright, 1895, by Harper and Brothers. Copyright, 1923, by Owen Wister.
[29]Copyright, 1909, by Hamlin Garland.
[29]Copyright, 1909, by Hamlin Garland.
[30]Copyright, 1886 and 1914, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
[30]Copyright, 1886 and 1914, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
[31]Copyright, 1921, by Little, Brown, and Company.
[31]Copyright, 1921, by Little, Brown, and Company.