A Frontier Life

List of Figures Preface Introduction 1. "A Vast Unsettled Wilderness": Growing Up on the Frontier, 1819-1841 2. "He Preached What I Had Long Been Seeking For": Mormonism, 1842-1849 3. "My Wife Violently Attacted with Colery": Cholera Country: Crossing the Plains, 1850 4. "When I Herd the Schreems of the Chirldin": Becoming a "Messenger of Peace" in Tooele, 1850-1853 5. "We Ware Mormans Thare White Brothers": The Southern Utah Indian Mission, 1854 6. "The Chief Shed Teers When He Saw Our Women and Children": Founding Santa Clara, 1854-1856 7. "I Was Apointed to Take Charge of the Mision": Marriage and Massacre during the Utah War, 1857 8. "The Gentiles Are Fiting Up Steamers to Explore the Colerado": Encounter with Ives on the Lower Colorado, 1858 9. "In & Through the Roughefist Country It Has Ever Been My Lot to Travel": Crossing the Colorado, Visiting the Hopis, late 1858 10. "Mr. Hamblin Has Discharged His Duty": Collecting the Children and Second Expedition to the Hopis, 1859-1860 11. "Your Son . . . Partially Arose And Said Here I Am Shot": Murder on the Trail and Flight from Quichintoweep, 1860 12. "I Want You to Give Dilligent Heed to This Letter": Gathering the Bones, 1861 13. "The Last Vestige of the Fort . . . Had Disappeared and in [Its] Place Roar Now the Wild Torrents of the River": The Big Washout, January 1862 14. "The Rocks Stand Up Biding Defiance to Wind and Weather in All Manner of Shapes": Circling the Grand Canyon, 1862 15. "The Hight of the Rock and Its Smooth Surfis on Each Side P[r]esented the Seenery Grand and Sublime": Founding Pearce's Ferry, 1863 16. "A Raft Was Built on Which Bro Hamblin and Dayton Crossed": Founding Lee's Ferry and Callville, 1864 17. "Why She Ever Married 'Old Jacob' Was a Mystery": The Death of Rachel and Marriage to Louisa, 1865 18. "I Never Was So Ashamed of Anything in My Life": Murder and Massacre at Pipe Spring, 1866 19. "They Begged Him to Be Their Big Chief, Saying That They Had No Captains Left": Re-founding Kanab and Boating on the Colorado, 1866-1868 20. "Started for the Canab Mision": At Kanab and Pahreah, 1869 21. "We Will Now Ack Knowlage but One Father Suck the Milk of One Mother": With Powell among the Uinkarets, and Treaty at Fort Defiance, 1870 22. "I Was Not Happy Unless I Was Miserable, For I Knew Nothing Except Hardships": Rituals and Trials of a Missionary Family, 1870 23. "A Slow-Moving, Very Quiet Individual, Who Said He Was Jacob Hamblin": Exploring the Escalante; Navajos in Kanab; At Lee's Ferry, 1871 24. "They Died Off So Fast That There Were Hardly Any Left in a Short Time": The Fate of the Santa Clara Paiutes, 1871 25. "Jacob Whiled Away the Evening 'Yarning'": Helping Powell and Lee, 1872 26. "We Wass the First Ones That Ever Crosed the Cilored with Wagons": Mormons to Arizona, 1873 27. "The Indians . . . Were Murdered in Cold Blood by One Mccarthy and His Employees": The Grass Valley Murders, Navajo Negotiations, and the Arizona Mission, 1874 28. "The Navajoes Carried on Quite an Extensive Trade with Our People": At the Colorado Post, 1875 29. "If He Had His Choice He Should Desire to Live in Arizona": Helping to Found the Little Colorado Mission, 1876-1877 30. "The Watering Places Are All Occupide by the White Man": Hamblin, Powell, and the Kaibab Paiutes, 1877-1880 31. "He Had Always Led a Frontier Life": Recircling the Grand Canyon; Counselor to Lot Smith, 1878 32. "I Am Now Located with a Part of My Family in Round Valley": Springerville, Arizona, 1879-1882 33. "We Found a Nice Farm on the Frisco River": New Mexico, Old Mexico, 1882-1885 34. "In a Small Cabin in the High Mountains of New Mexico": The End of the Trail, 1886 35. Jacob Hamblin: Legacy Appendix A: Jacob Hamblin's Families Appendix B: Jacob Hamblin's Trips To and Across the Colorado Notes Bibliography Index