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PART
I.
LIFE AND LABORS AMONG SOUTHERN INDIANS.
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CHAPTER
I.
CALL TO THE FRONTIER
Introduction--Revivals in the North--My Field--My
Predecessors: Armstrong, Griffith, Hargrave, Wood--Christian
Attachments--Summons to the Frontier--Mental
Conflict--Refusal--Reconsideration--Surrender at discretion
Pages 23--29
CHAPTER
II.
TRAVEL--FROM THE LAKES
GULFWARD.
The Outset
--Logansport--Indianapolis --Greencastle --
Revivals--Lawrenceburg-- Cincinnati --Sickness--Outfit
--Louisville--Steamer "Gallant "--Down the
Ohio--Mississippi--Montgomery's Point--Cut Off--Up the
Arkansas--Scenery--Early Settlements--Little Rock--Governor
Yell--Judge Pascal--Fort Smith--General Taylor--Destination
Reached--Cargo Landed--First Night Out
30-37
CHAPTER
III.
CHOCTAW COUNTRY AND PEOPLE.
Survey of
Premises--Choctaw System of Education--Liberal
Appropriations--Services of Rev. E. B. Ames--Choctaw
People--Their Lands--Chickasaws among Them--Description of
Country--Form of Government--An infidel Party--Our
Home--Fort Coffee --Description of Site--Our
Reception--Tribute to late Major Armstrong--J. H. Heald, Esq
38-44
5
CHAPTER
IV.
LABORS AND INTERCOURSE.
Duties of
Superintendent--First Labors--Freak of Arkansas
River--Remodeling a Fort --Developments of Soldier Life
--Solitariness--Tidings of Death--Mental
Exercises--Intercourse with Natives--Removal of
Choctaws--Land Stealing--Improved Condition--Choctaw
Character--Language--A "Maine Law"--Missionary Labors--Visit
of Bishop Roberts--Quadroon Wesley--Choctaw Conscience
Pages 45-53
CHAPTER
V.
CHEROKEE SIDE--TRIP TO
TAH-LE-QUAH.
Shingling by
the Acre--Rev. H. C. Benson and Lady--Express from General
Council--Off for Council Ground--Route--Scenery--Delaware
Guide--Assumed Superiority--"Grandfather" of all the
Indians--Incident of the Tribes--Borrowed Vices--Cherokee
History and Character--Feuds--Murder of the
Ridges--Boudinot--Retaliation--Inter-marriages--Illinois of
the West--Flood--Detention--Scenery--Hermitage--Park Hill
54--82
CHAPTER
VI.
CHEROKEE LITERATURE--CALL OF
COUNCIL.
Park Hill
Mission--Rev. S. A. Worcester--Rev. Mr.
Foreman--Translations--Spoken Language--Ludicrous
Mistakes--Invention of Alphabet--George Guest, the Cherokee
Cadmus--Park Hill Settlement--Vivacity--Female
Equestriauism--Object of Council--Slow Assembling--Expensive
Gathering--Camanches--Pawnees--Ex-Governor Butler--Our
Arrival .
83--68
CHAPTER
VII.
THE GREAT COUNCIL.
Description of
Ground--Costume--Legislative Leisure--Council
Assembles--Manner of Speaking--Prominent Men--John
Ross--Lowry--Bushy-Head--Roly M'Intosh--Wild
Cat--Wau-bon-sa--Shin-go-was-sa--Speech of Ross--Of
M'Intosh--Of Young Chickasaw
69-76
CHAPTER
VIII.
THE GREAT COUNCIL, CONTINUED.
Sabbath
Exercises--Preaching through an Interpreter--Pottawatamie
Chief--Incident--The Tribe--Rude Sports--Indian
Dance--Specimens of Savage
Life--Iowas--Osages--Appearance--Dress--German-
dizing--Incident--Ferrying on
Skins--Thieving--Lying--Boasting--Cowardice and
Treachery--Redeeming Traits--Retort Courteous--Seminoles
Pages 77-84
CHAPTER
IX.
TAH-LE-QUAH TO FORT SCOTT.
Young
Wolf--Starting North--Military Reads--Moravian
Mission--Compromise Line -- Seneca Indians
--Decrease--Causes--Mohawk Preacher--Band of
Shawnees--Quaw-paws--Their Mission--Pomme de Torre--Neutral
Lands--River Adventure--Prairie Flies--Stampede--Fugitives
Reclaimed--Hieroglyphics--Night Traveling--Short
Rations--Coal Bank
85-91
CHAPTER
X.
FORT SCOTT TO MISSOURI RIVER.
Fort
Scott--Military Men--Courtesy--Brief Authority--No
Rest--Maries des Cygnes--Jeru's Trading-Post--Cold Water
Grove--Bishop Roberts--Reminiscences--Cold Night's
Drive--Camping under a Buggy--Hunger and Weariness --Sabbath
Day's Journey --Destination Reached--Shawnees--Commerce of
the Plains--Missionary Life
92-97
CHAPTER
XI.
HOMEWARD BOUND--NOTES BY THE
WAY.
Shawnee
School--Friends' Establishment--Baptist Mission--Fourth of
July--Kansas Lauding--Night Vigils--Platte Purchase--Steamer
Edna--All Aboard--Aground--Sabbath Service--Under
Way--Grounded Again--Rains--Influenza--Cowardly
Captain--Drunken Row--Work at the Capstan--Scorching a
Horse--Lighted Off--Sold Out--On Board Again--Auction on
Board--St. Louis--Change of Plan--Floor Accommodations--Off
in Stage--Savages in Civilized Life--Terrible Night--Left
Sick--Long Sleep --Recovery --Home to Family --Trip to the
Lakes--Removal to Ohio
River--Cincinnati--Disappointment--Painful Detention--Rev.
J. N. Maffitt--Bishop Soule--Indiana Conference--About to
Give Up--Arrival of Major Armstrong--Sinews of War
Supplied--Beginning of Transfers
98-107
CHAPTER
XII.
INCIDENTS OF RIVER PASSAGE.
Preparations--Steamer Governor
Morehead--Embarkation--Reflections--Sickness of Mrs.
G.--Brutal Captain--Reminiscence of Dr. Coke--Passage down
the Ohio--Mississippi--Up the Arkansas--Struck a Snag--Boat
Sinking-- Sensation--Female Courage--Run upon a
Shoal--Temporary Repair--Under Way
Again--Low Water--Tied Up--Captain Knocks Under--Catholic
Settlement--Lodgings on Cotton Plantation--Losses--Workings
of Slavery--Cotton Gathering--The Lash--Effects on a Sick
One--Almost a Slaveholder--Tampering with
Slavery--Tender--Hearted Scotchman--Combination of Charms
Irresistible--Turned Out of Doors--Deliverance--Doctrine of
a Special Providence
Pages 108-116
CHAPTER
XIII.
ARKANSAS TRAVELING--INCIDENTS.
Joy of
Deliverance--Our Host--The Shedder of Blood--Two Days'
Meeting--Rev. L. B. Dennis--Off for Conference--Cypress
Swamps--"As ye go, Preach"--A Shout--Little Rock--Arrival of
Gov. Morehead--Bishop Andrew and Rev. J. F. Wright--Ladies
of Little Rock--News from Fort Coffee--Family Left
Again--Land and Water--Rev. J. C.
Parker--Clarkesville--Conference Opened--Bishop on
Foot--Soliloquy--Episcopal Deterioration--Conference
Business--Bishop Andrew in the Chair--Speech on
Marriage--"Up-Hill" Itinerancy--" Gifts and Graces
"--Preacher in a Wolf-Trap--Indian Work--Appointments--Rev.
John Page--Off Again--Reached Fort Coffee--Benson and
Lady--Family Not Here
117-126
CHAPTER
XIV.
PRELIMINARIES--SCHOOL. OPENED.
Labor and
Care--Arrival of Family--Female Resolution--Fine
Passage--First Quarterly Meeting--Gratuitous
Labors--Preachers turned Mechanics--Visit to Bayou
Zeal--Indian Graves--B. starts to Little Rock--Returns with
Freight--Private Losses--Opening of School--Our
Plan--Worship--Study --Recreation--Uniform--Names--Aptness
in Learning--Disease among Indians--Indian Doctors--Piety of
Students--Indian Songs
126--134
CHAPTER
XV.
CREEK INDIANS.
Rev. W.
Browning--Creeks--Visit to Fort Gibson--Site--"Graveyard of
the Army"--Regulations--Whisky Rations--Spilling Uncle Sam's
Liquor--Official Example--Col. Loomis--Condition of
Creeks--Seminoles--Ailigator--John Bemo--Falls of
Verdigris--Three. Rivers--Creek Towns--Cheers--Agriculture
--Capt. Dawson--Marshall--Carousal--Muscogees--Negro
Intermixture--Prejudice against
Missionaries--Persecution--Indian Letter--Recommendation of
Major Armstrong--A Murder
135--144
CHAPTER
XVI.
AFFAIRS AT FORT COFFEE.
Habits of
Indian Boys--Progress--Water--Floods--Our
Gibraltar--Excitements--General Conference of
1844--Indignation Roused--Finale Announced--Rev. W.
Browning--Rev. Sidney Dyer--Mrs. Benson--Mission
Conference--Too Much Superintendence--Character of Indian
Piety--Primitive Love-Feast--After History of Pupils--The
Man Charles--Aged African--Maternal Affection--Fort
Smith--Gen. Taylor--Gen. Arbuckle--Other
Officers--"Christianity Incompatible with Our
Institutions"--Suffrages against the Sentiment--Affair of
Honor--Irish Magnanimity--Close of the Session--School
Suspended--Character of the Climate
Pages 145--153
CHAPTER
XVII.
EXCURSIONS AND INCIDENTS.
Excursions
--Unarmed--Slight Alarms--Praying
Indians--Incident--Dardanelle Camp Meeting--Rev. J. C.
Parker--Place and People--Secession Movements--Judge
C.--Tragical Incident--Indian Camp Meeting--Death of Col.
----- --Preparation Deferred--Scenes of Frontier Life--My
Friend Killing an Indian
154--160
CHAPTER
XVIII.
INDIAN TRAITS AND INCIDENTS.
The
Intellectual and the Moral--Treatment of Slaves--Negro
Factotum--Slaves Owning Masters--Laws against
Instructing--Caught Violating--Indian
Diet--Tah-ful-lah--Could n't Go It--Sports and
Games--Extract--Betting--Ball-Plays--Excitement--Parricide--Punishment--Never
Flee--Courts Incidental to Sports--Capt. Riddle--Barbarous
Scene--Violent Deaths--No Collection Laws--Drinking--Burnt
Indian--Speck of War--Flight of Families--"Council Spiled"--
A Truce--Hot Weather--Sickness--Watering--Places--A Preacher
Swearing
161--169
CHAPTER
XIX.
CONFERENCE TRIP--INCIDENTS.
School
Reopened--Mr. Brigham--Approach of Conference--Visit of
Native
Preachers--Ok-chi-ah--Chuk-ma-bee--Character--Preaching--Moving
Scene--Off for Conference--Ok-chi-ah Left
Sick--Fairfield--Missionary Greeting--Rev. Dr.
Butler--Tah-le-quah--Rev. S. A. Worcester--Imprisonment of
Georgia Missionaries--A Lovely Family--Death of Mr.
Worcester--Assassination of Boudinot
170--175
CHAPTER
XX.
FIRST INDIAN MISSION
CONFERENCE.
Changes at
Tah-le-quah--Opening of Conference--Bishop
Morris--Conference Services and Business--Delegates to
Louisville Convention--Adjournment--Legislator in a Felon's
Grave--Visit to Dwight Mission--Mr. Hitchcock--Rev. Mr.
Buttrick--Presbyterian Missionaries Peter P.
Pitchlynn--Death of Ok-chi-ah
Pages 176-180
CHAPTER
XXI.
TRIP TO RED RIVER.
My
Traveling Companion--Ki-e-mi-chi Mountains--Texas
Emigration--Extract--Bishop Morris at Fort Smith--Choctaw
Country--Spencer Academy--Defects of Organization--Failure
of Plans--Superiority of Mission Schools--Choctaw Pride
181-186
CHAPTER
XXII.
RED RIVER SIDE.
Doaksville--Col. Folsom--Extract--Off for "the Land of the
Lone Star"--Red River--Texas Regulators--Pine
Flats--Clarksville Texan
Patriotism--Sabbath--Emigration--Noted
Limb--Annexation-Texan Spunk--M'Kenzie's Seminary--Old
Soldier--Influences of Methodism--Our Fallen Men--Dr.
Ruter--Rev. A. Poe--Gen. Howard--Sketch of Dr. Ruter--Return
to Doaksville--Annuity Payment--Motley
Scene--Gamblers--Involuntary Dragoonship--Escort to
Frontier--Modest Hint to Law-Makers--Death from
Toothache--Indian View of Retributive Providence
187-196
CHAPTER
XXIII.
RED RIVER SIDE--TRAVELS AND
INCIDENTS.
Fort
Towson--Moral and Religious Influence--An American
Havelock--Church Call--A Soldier Choir--Indian
Generosity--Female Mission Schools--Rev. Messrs. Kingsbury,
Wright, Byington, Hotchkin--New Recruits--Missionary
Intercourse--Parson K. and the Bishop--A Prelate
Mortified--Late Acts of American Board--Noble Conduct of
Missionaries--Start for Fort Washita--Visit to Koonsha--A
Missionary Heroine--Scenery--Loneliness of Prairie
Traveling--Washita---Colonel Upshaw--Ultima Thule--Captive
Children--Col. Harney--Capture of Tom Starr--Lynch Law
Advised--Indian Obstinacy--Exchange of Notes--Preaching in
the Garrison--Courtesy of Officers
197-205
CHAPTER
XXIV.
WEEK AMONG THE CHICKASAWS.
Detained--Extract--Chickasaws--Conflict of de facto
and de jure Governments--Annuity Payment--Sprig of
Royalty--Chickasaw Wealth--Customs--Burial--Chickasaw
Mission--Rev. Mr. Duncan--Missionary Concert--Skinning the
Indians--Snow--Educational Plan--Academy Endowed--Homeward
Trip--Boggy Depot--Kind Old Slave--White Exiles--A Home
Welcome--Choctaw Murders--Unburied Body--Reflections--Winter
Climate
Pages 206-213
CHAPTER
XXV.
PRELIMINARIES TO A RETURN.
Affairs at
Fort Coffee--Prosperity--Female Department--Church
Matters--Approach of Louisville Convention--Mental
Conflict--Line of Action Fixed--Decline a Seat--Determine to
Take Family East--Preparations for a Storm--Southern
Preachers in Trouble--Frank Concessions--Past and
Present--Arrangements for Leaving--Substitute
Appointed--Condition of
Institution--Educational--Moral--Fiscal--Extract of
Letter--State of Mind on Leaving--Determine to Set Off by
Land
214-221
CHAPTER
XXVI.
TO LOUISVILLE VIA NEW
ORLEANS--INCIDENTS.
Take Leave of
Fort Coffee--One Day's Laud Travel--Heavy Rains--Rise of
River--Dismiss Teamster--Remove to Fort Smith--Embark on
Steamer Archer--Little Rock--Kind Attentions--Quaker
Captain--Effects of Spring Flood--Cotton Plantations--Aged
Planter--A Hearer of Wesley--Tribute to
Freedom--Napoleon--Determine to Visit New Orleans--Shipping
Cotton--River on Fire--Use of a Nose--High
Water--Scenery--Climate--Arrive at New Orleans--Meet
Friends--Rev. C. W. Ruter--Excursion of. Juniors--Louisiana
State Convention--Take Passage on the Steamer--Upward
Trip--Summary of Month
222-228
CHAPTER
XXVII.
LOUISVILLE CONVENTION AND
SEQUENCES.
The
Body--Esprit de Corps--Waiting for Results--The
Crisis--Course Fixed--Personal Intercourse--Interview with
Bishop Soule--Final Settlement--Transfer--Parting
Scenes--Rev. W. Gunn--Fraternal Feeling--Arrival of Rev, H.
C. Benson and Lady--Changes at Fort Coffee--New Scene
Opening--Death of Rev. B. Westlake--Appointed to Peru
District--Long Illness--Rev. Philip May--Offered Appointment
to Oregon--Decline--Nine Years in the North Indiana
Conference
229-235
PART
II.
EARLY SCENES IN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.
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CHAPTER
I.
EXPLORATION--APPOINTMENT--TRIP TO
FRONTIER.
Passage of
Kansas--Nebraska Act--Effects--Religious Aspect--Meeting of
Bishops--Determine to Occupy--Letter of
Appointment--Richmond Station--Last Ten Years--Rev. J. H.
Hull--Rev. S. C. Cooper--Revival--Ties Sundered--Preparation
for Exploring Trip--Off for the
Frontier--Indianapolis--Terre Haute--Sabbath in
Illinois--Uncle Billy Moore--St. Louis--Change of
Route--Sabbath in Missouri--"Living Waters"--Cholera--Rumors
of Wars--Independence--Westport--Our Missionaries
Ignored--Make a Stand
Pages 239--247
CHAPTER
II.
FIRST SCENES IN KANSAS.
Kansas
City--Coincidence--Mormon Emigrants--Cholera--Visit to
Wyandotts--Leave Westport--Enter Kansas
Territory--"Johnson's Mission"--Pro-Slavery Stronghold--Free
Side--Quaker Mission--Baptist Mission--Dr. Barker--Graduated
Scale of Government Favors--Delawares--Getting Lost--Value
of a Drunken Indian--Off for Wakarusa--Crossing Raw
River--Dr. A. Still--Wakarusa Mission--Settlers'
Meeting--Mormon Crossing--Ride to "Big Timbers"--Hickory
Point--Kibbee--First Sermon--Quaker Mission--Friends Thayer
and Mendenhall--Independence--Return to Wyandott--Short
Stay--Start North--Attack of Disease--Indian
Indifference--Night at Johnny Cake's--Fort
Leavenworth--Weston
248--258
CHAPTER
III.
TRIP NORTHWARD--INCIDENTS.
A
Resting-Place--Rev. T. B. Markham--Continued
Illness--Kickapoos--Regaining Health--Off Again--Sabbath in
Missouri--Threats of Lynching--St. Joseph--Continued
Feebleness--Traveling Outfit Sold--Excursion into
Kansas--Wa-the-na--Night in the Stage--Ground Sleep on the
Nodaway--Oregon--Col. Archer--Cabin Hospitality--Excursion
Into Territory--Enter Great Nemaha River--No
Settlers--Return Stage Again--Sidney--Taking Time by the
Forelock--Old Fort Kear-
ney--Nebraska City--Kearney City--Major
Downs--Church Lots--Otoe Indiana--Begging Papers--Indian
Funeral--Politico--Theologians--Return--Stage Again--"Sow
Beside all Waters"--Glenwood--St. Mary's--Peter A. Sarpy
Pages 259--268
CHAPTER
IV.
UPPER NEBRASKA--HOMEWARD TRIP.
Council
Bluffs--Cross into Nebraska--Omaha--Large
Expectations--Claim--Taking--Collisions --Squatter
Sovereignty --Summary Executions--Bellevue--Mission--Rev. W.
Hamilton--First Sermon in Nebraska--Excursion to Platte
River--Cross to St. Mary's--Disappointed--Return to Council
Bluffs--Meeting a Friend--Choosing a Guardian--Off for
Home--Iowa Staging--Short Rations--Rafting the
Nodaway--Bivouac in Stage--Depredation upon a
Cornfield--Recuperating--Sabbath at Ft. Desmoines--Rev. W.
Butt--Growing Independent--Muscatine--Stage
Sleeping--Davenport--Rock Island--Chicago--Michigan
City--Lafayette--Indianapolis--Home Again
259-274
CHAPTER
V.
REST--REAPPOINTMENT--START FOR
KANSAS.
Home--Population of Territories--Report and
Recommendations--Surrender of
Work--Reconsideration--Acceptance--Transfer and
Appointment--Shawnee Mission--Striking for a
Conference--Canvassing for Help--"Not Ready"--Rev. J. S.
Griffing--Secular Credentials--Wagons, Teams, Camp
Equipage--Auctioned Out--The Start--Our
Company--Indianapolis--Lowering Auspices--Off In a
Storm--Sunshine Again
275--281
CHAPTER
VI.
TRAVEL TO KANSAS--INCIDENTS.
Western
Indiana--Rubicon Passed--Sharp Practice--Camp
Life--Nomads--Sabbaths--Scarcity of Water--Super--Legal
Plea--Narrow Escape of Family--Springfield--Illinois
Conference--Take Railroad--Naples--Distinguished
Guests--Nondescript Night--Griggsville--Hannibal--Missouri
Conference--Plans all Upset--Mental Struggle--Determine to
Proceed--Kansas and Nebraska District--Rev. J. H.
Dennis--Extent of Field--Responsibility--Return and Meet
Family--Rev. Mr. Blood--Death from Cholera--Travel Through
Missouri--Leave Family Again--Prospecting Tour--Liberty and
Independence--U. S. Agent--Wyandott Council--Tenant to an
Indian--Return and Meet Teams--Change of Drivers--Griffing
is Taken Sick--Kansas City--Our Last Day's Travel and
Adventure--Indian Magnanimity--Home in a Strange Land
282--293
CHAPTER
VII.
INDIAN TRIBES IN KANSAS.
Osages--Fragmentary Tribes--Shawnees--Capt. Parks--Pascal
Fish--Church Membership -- Delawares--Fine Lands--Baptist
Mission--Charles Ketcham--Johnny-Cake--Wyandotte--Early
History--Rev. J. B. Finley--Dr. Elliott--Wyandott
Methodism--Mo-non-cue--Between-the-logs--Home Among
Delawares--Outside Influence--Exciting Scenes--Churches
Burned--My Home Among Them--Government--John
Hat--Mud--Eater--Squire Gray-Eyes-- George W.
Clarke--Francis Hicks--Big-Tree--John
Solomon--Split--the-logs--Robetaille--Defense of Indian
Character
Pages 294-302
CHAPTER VIII.
OTHER NORTHERN TRIBES--TRAITS--INCIDENTS.
Kickapoos--Sacs--Iowas--Presbyterian Mission--Rev. Mr.
Irwin--Pottawatamies--Kaws--Disgusting
Habits--Dog-meat--Sacs and Foxes--Ottawas--Baptist
Mission--Tawa Jones--Nebraska
Line--Half-Breeds--Otoes--Omahas--Presbyterian Mission--Rev.
Dr. Sturgess--Temperance Law--Pawnees--Traits of Indian
Character--Familiarity--Vanity--Religious Fervor--Scene at
Delaware Quarterly Meeting--Care of
Graves--Treaties--Failure of Government with
Delawares--Injustice to Missionaries--Wyandott
Treaty--Nation Virtually Disbanded--Superiority of Southern
Tribes--White Settlers
303-311
CHAPTER
IX.
DISTRICT LABORS--EARLY SCENES.
Home
Adjustments--Freezing--Regular Irregularity--Labors Begin
--Wakarusa--Hunting up a Mission --Opposition Line--Quick
Work--Sample of Early Labors--Lawrence--Indomitable
Yankees--First Kansas Election--First
Homicide--Kibbee--Confession--Apprehended Outbreak--Night
Ride--Gov. Reader --Arrest--Rev. T. B. Markham--Quarterly
Meeting on Short Allowance--Retreat to Missouri
Bottom--Failure of Horse--Failure of Horse No. 2--No. 3
Holds Out--Nebraska City--Major Downs--Lost--Found--Hotel
Preaching--Turn Homeward--Leavenworth City--Hard Fare and
High Pay--Meeting-House Lodging--"Entertaining"
Abolitionists "Unawares"--Life in the Territories
312--322
CHAPTER
X.
DISTRICT LABORS--EXPLORING.
Preachers
Coming In--Character--Rev. A. L. Downey--Isaac F.
Collins--J. Dennison--C. H. Lovejoy--L. B. Dennis--B. C.
Dennis--H.
Burch--D. Hart--Outfitting Point--Second
Round--Kibbee Again--Exciting
Scene--Finale--Quarterly Meeting on Black Jack--Uncle
Billy Moore and His Boys--Trip with Brother
Griffing--Hundred and Ten--Free Wiskey--Man Devoured by
Wolves--Great Indignation--Old Catholic
Mission--Topeka--Small Beginning--Hasty Pudding--Hunting up
Church Members--German
Settler--Taunts--Organization--Lawrence Quarterly Meeting--A
Funeral--Faithfulness of Brother G.--Loses His Pony--Loss
Made Up--Traveling in Pain
Pages 323--331
CHAPTER
XI.
DISTRICT LABORS--MEN OF THE
TERRITORIES.
Off for
Omaha--Leavenworth Quarterly Meeting--Bar-Room
Preaching--Stakes Set--Mormon Elder--Nebraska City--Hired
Guide--Quarterly meeting on Great Platte--Omaha--Territorial
Legislature--How Elected--Gov. Burt--Hon. T. B. Cuming--Gov.
Izzard--Preaching in State-House-- African
Slave-Trade--Clerico-Executive Admonition--"Seven
Devils"--Home Again--Kansas Election of 1855--Trip
East--Parkville Mob--Life Among the Wyandotts--Upset in a
Storm--Rev. J. H. Dennis--Life and Character--Gov.
Reeder--Dr. Charles Robinson--Gen. Pomeroy--John
Brown--Summer Outfit--A Retreat
332-340
CHAPTER
XII.
DISTRICT LABORS--INCIDENTS.
Third
Round--Wakarusa--Quarterly Meeting--Slight Sensation--Mouth
of Big Blue--Pawnee--Its Fate--Fort Riley--Republican--Smoky
Hill--History of Manhattan Colony--Bluemont
College--Scientific Farming--Anecdote of John Strange--The
"House Three Stories Long "--An Unkind Cut--Touch at
Home--Off for the North--Leavenworth--Good Quarterly
Meeting--Companion's Horse Lost--Travel on Alone--Wolf
River--Visit to Presbyterian Mission--Hon. Walter
Lowry--Between the Nemahas--Naming a
Town--Canonization--Ferrying Without Insurance--Nebraska
City Quarterly Meeting--Omaha Quarterly Meeting--A Criminal
Present--Extract--Bogus Legislature of Kansas--Morals of
"The Mission "--Reckless Legislation--Effect
341-348
CHAPTER
XIII.
DISTRICT LABORS--BORDER
EXCITEMENTS.
Visit to South
Kansas--Glance Over the
Line--Independence--Harrisonville--Preacher Driven
Away--Rev. W. Ferril--West Point--Wayside Work--Nocturnal
Depletion--Fort Scott--The Wrong Man--Mistaken
Transfers--Fourth Round--Osawattamie--Atchison Quarterly
Meeting--Threats--Murder of Judge Collins--Home--Excitement
Among Wyandotts--Violence--Committee of
Notification--Female Courage--Resolve to Face the
Enemy--Wyandott Council--My Speech--Reply--Threats from
Parkville--Voice of a Revolver--Camp Meeting on
Wakarusa--Sickness--Wyandott Camp Meeting--Conquering a
Peace--Dutiful Sheriff--Murder of Barber--New Arrangement of
Work--Seat of Conference Changed
Pages 349--357
CHAPTER
XIV.
CONFERENCE
SESSIONS--INCIDENTS.
Off for Iowa
Conference--Steamer Polar Star--Excitements on Missouri
River--A Minister Beaten and Put
Ashore--Threats--Ingrate--Keokuk--Conference Doings--Bishop
Simpson--Nauvoo--Quincy--St. Louis--Bishop Janes--Rev. J. L.
Conklin--Missouri Conference Action--Off Again--An "Arkansas
Traveler"--Home Again--Another Removal--Adventures Losing
Interest--South--Western Iowa--Home on the "Western Slope"
358--363
CHAPTER
XV.
THE FIRST YEAR IN NEBRASKA
On My
Work--Future Details Omitted--My Field--Severity of
Winter--Deaths from Freezing--Trip East--General Conference
of 1856--Formation of Kansas and Nebraska
Conference--"Lane's Men"--Capt. Chambray--Work Filled--Camp
Meetings--Off for Conference--Party Captured--Passing the
Troops--Topeka--Lecompton--Ludicrous Mistake--Bout with a
Sentry--Col. Titus--United States Court--Brief
Immortality--Burned Houses--Lawrence--The Presiding Elder--A
Testimonial--Insignia of War--Bishop and
Escort--Conference Tent--Armed Preachers--Session--Funeral
of Rev. J. H. Dennis
364-370
CHAPTER
XVI.
SECOND YEAR IN
NEBRASKA--ADVENTURES.
On the
Way--Camp Fare--The Honored Dead--Passage to St.
Louis-Cincinnati--Bishop Morris--Cleveland--General Mission
Committee--Spring Conference--Another Severe
Winter--Struggle in a Snow-Drift--Great Freshet--"Wading
Missouri River"--Conference--Arrival of
Preachers--Adventure--No Bishop--Opening of
Session--Progress--Arrival of Bishop Ames--Extent of Work
371-376
CHAPTER
XVII.
THIRD YEAR IN NEBRASKA--CONDITION OF
TERRITORY.
My
Field--Population and Improvements--Speculating Mania--Town
Building--Banking--Moral Influences--Appointments to
Office--
Steady Growth--Camp Meetings--Eastern
Trip--Mild Winter--Off for Conference--Falls City--High
Waters--Topeka--Conference Session--Statistics--Literary
Institutions
Pages 377--382
CHAPTER
XVIII.
FOURTH YEAR IN NEBRASKA--ITS
CLOSE.
My Last
Territorial District--Extraordinary Rains--Hard
Traveling--Omaha Village--Attempted Indian Trick--Refused a
Lodging on the Floor--Missionary Greeting--Rev. Dr.
Sturgess--Unable to Proceed--Crossing Omaha Creek--Second
Trip--Journeys Up the Platte--Smudges--Trip to
Seaboard--Return--Horse Struggling With Ice--Winter Travel
North--First Retreat from a Storm--Scenes at Home--Illness
of Mrs. G.--Close of Life--My Arrival--Funeral
Services--Interment--Monument--Inscription--Apostrophe
383--190
CHAPTER
XIX.
AFTER SCENES--REVIEW.
Home, as it
was Left--Conference at Omaha--Statistics--Pike's
Peak--Oreapolis--Review of Five Years--Kansas
Struggle--Influence of Our Ministry-- ncrease of
Population-- General Improvement--Religious
Growth--Educational Effort--Retirement--Providential Changes
391-395
PART
III.
EXPLORING TOUR TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
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LETTER
I.
THE START.
Conference of
1859--Rocky Mountain
Mines--Call--Conflict--Declinature--Home Changes--Acceptance
and Appointment--Outfit--Rev. J. Adriance--Great
Stampede--All Ready--Off
Pages 399--404
LETTER
II.
MISSOURI RIVER TO FORT
KEARNEY.
Plattesmouth--Salt Creek--On Guard--Elephant City--Platte
Valley--Pawnee Village--Passing U. S. Troops--Platte
River--Fort Kearney--Retreaters--The Major--Incident
405-409
2
LETTER
III.
FORT KEARNEY TO GREAT
CROSSING.
Great Bustle
on the Plains--Government Trains--Coralle--Buffalo
Range--Dog Towns-- Cottonwood Springs--O'Fallon's
Bluff--Pawnee and Sioux Indians--The Crossing--"High
Wines"--Seasons of Devotion
Pages 410-414
LETTER
IV.
GREAT CROSSING TO CHERRY CREEL
News
from the Mines--The Country--Birthday Sabbath--Select
Library--Jolly Missourians--Songs "in a Strange
Land"--Almost Envious--Cheyennes--Dead Indian--Fremont's
Orchard--Old Forts--Arapahoes--First View of the
Mountains--Cherry Creek
415-419
LETTER
V.
TOWNS--MINING REGION--INDIANS.
Denver--Auraria--Other Towns--Fourth of July--Mountain
Range--The "Parks"--Diggings--Latitude--Elevation--Utah
Indians--Massacre--Indian Wars
420-423
LETTER
VI.
STAY--REMOVAL--MULE RIDE UPON THE
MOUNTAINS
Recognitions--Camping
Ground--First Sabbath--Raising a Congregation--Quartering on
the Enemy--Drive to the Mountains--A
Stand-Still--Head-Quarters--Patriarchal Labors--Climbing the
Mountain--"Raising the Color "--New Phase of
Itinerary--Scenery--Stream of Travel--Night in the
Mountains--Gregory's Diggings
424-429
LETTER
VII.
DISCOVERIES--STAY AT MINES--SABBATH AT
GREGORY'S.
Mining
Explorations--Claims--Mining Process--Short
Breathing--Losing the Way--Mountain Summit--Eternal
Snows--Inspiring Prospect--Incident--Meeting
Friends--Sabbath Services--Organization--Affecting
Recognition
430--434
LETTER
VIII.
OTHER DIGGINGS--YANKEE ENTERPRISE--CHARACTER OF
POPULATION.
Scenes by the
Way--Mexicans--Thunder-Storm--A Court--Modus
Operandi--Yankee Incident--Ladies of the Mines--Learned
Professions
436-439
LETTER
IX.
RESULTS--PROSPECTS--THE CHURCH'S WORK--DOWN THE
MOUNTAIN.
Success and
Disappointment--Problem Unsolved--Rope
Deferred--Qualifications of a Miner--Creek "Clear" on
Sabbath--Open Door--Will it Pay?--Iron Duke--Rocky Mountain
Conference--Down the Mountains--The Minus and the
Plus--Closing Off
Pages 440-444
LETTER
X.
PASSING INCIDENTS--CONVENTION--THE
ROUTE.
Summary
--Convention--Compromise--Character of
Members--Deportment--Mining News--Excitement--Products of
Soil--Route to the mines
445--448
RESULTS OF
EXPLORATION--REPORT.
Recapitulation--probable Population--Inviting
Field--Arrangement of Work--Denver and Auraria
Mission--Rocky Mountain Mission--Labors--Preachers
Wanted--Probable Future--Present Duty Plain
440--451
CONCLUSION.
Results of
Personal Observation--Indian Missions--Removal
Policy--Second Removals--Common Occupancy of Lands--Annuity
System--Bad Example--Bad Agents--Influence of
Missionaries--Numbers Saved--Plea for the Indian--Hon. S. W.
Parker--A Policy Suggested--Field Among White Settlers--The
Struggle--Influence of Religion--Send Them the Gospel--Last
Word With the Reader--Review--Whole Field--"Journeyings
Oft"--Preaching to All--Changes Witnessed--Result--Tribute
to Fellow-Laborers
452-464
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