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The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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Author
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Credits
Tim Lindell, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
F786: United States local history: New Southwest. Colorado River, Canyon, and Valley
Subject
Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 66791
Release Date
November 22, 2021
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE CITY OF THE SAINTS, AND ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS TO CALIFORNIA.
  2. 2.PREFACE .
  3. 3.CONTENTS .
  4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
  5. 5.CHAPTER I. Why I went to Great Salt Lake City.—The various Routes.—The Line of Country traversed.—Diaries and Disquisitions.
  6. 6.CHAPTER II. The Sioux or Dakotahs.
  7. 7.CHAPTER III. Concluding the Route to the Great Salt Lake City.
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV. First Week at Great Salt Lake City.—Preliminaries.
  9. 9.CHAPTER V. Second Week at Great Salt Lake City.—Visit to the Prophet.
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI. Descriptive Geography, Ethnology, and Statistics of Utah Territory.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII. Third Week at Great Salt Lake City.—Excursions.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. Excursions continued.
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX. Latter-Day Saints.—Of the Mormon Religion. — CHRONOLOGY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF MORMON. ( By Elder James Marsden, and printed in the Compendium of Faith and Doctrines. )
  14. 14.CHAPTER X. Farther Observations at Great Salt Lake City.
  15. 15.CHAPTER XI. Last Days at Great Salt Lake City.
  16. 16.CHAPTER XII. To Ruby Valley.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. To Carson Valley.
  18. 18.CONCLUSION.
  19. 19.APPENDICES . — I. EMIGRANT’S ITINERARY, — II. DESCRIPTION OF THE MORMON TEMPLE. [ Extracted from the Deserét News. ] — III. THE MARTYRDOM OF JOSEPH SMITH. BY APOSTLE JOHN TAYLOR. — IV. — V. CHRONOLOGICAL ABSTRACT OF MORMON HISTORY.
  20. 20.INDEX . — Transcriber’s Notes

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