Mormon Settlement in Arizona

SUMMARY OF SUBJECTS

Chapter One

WILDERNESS BREAKERS—Mormon Colonization in the West; Pioneers in

Agriculture; First Farmers in Many States; The Wilderness Has Been Kept

Broken.

Chapter Two

THE MORMON BATTALION—Soldiers Who Sought No Strife; California Was the

Goal; Organization of the Battalion; Cooke Succeeds to the Command; The

March Through the Southwest; Capture of the Pueblo of Tucson;

Congratulation on Its Achievement; Mapping the Way Through Arizona;

Manufactures of the Arizona Indians; Cooke's Story of the March; Tyler's

Record of the Expedition; Henry Standage's Personal Journal; California

Towns and Soldier Experiences; Christopher Layton's Soldiering; Western

Dash of the Kearny Dragoons.

Chapter Three

THE BATTALION'S MUSTER-OUT—Heading Eastward Toward "Home"; With the

Pueblo Detachment; California Comments on the Battalion; Leaders of the

Battalion; Passing of the Battalion Membership; A Memorial of Noble

Conception; Battalion Men Who Became Arizonans.

Chapter Four

CALIFORNIA'S MORMON PILGRIMS—The Brooklyn Party at San Francisco; Beginnings of a Great City; Brannan's Hope of Pacific Empire; Present at the Discovery of Gold; Looking Toward Southern California; Forced From the Southland; How Sirrine Saved the Gold.

Chapter Five

THE STATE OF DESERET—A Vast Intermountain Commonwealth; Boundary Lines

Established; Segregation of the Western Territories; Map of State of

Deseret.

Chapter Six

EARLY ROADS AND TRAVELERS—Old Spanish Trail Through Utah; Creation of the Mormon Road; Mormon Settlement at Tubac; A Texan Settlement of the Faith.

Chapter Seven

MISSIONARY PIONEERING—Hamblin, "Leatherstocking of the Southwest";

Aboriginal Diversions; Encounter with Federal Explorers; The Hopi and the

Welsh Legend; Indians Await Their Prophets; Navajo Killing of Geo. A.

Smith, Jr.; A Seeking of Baptism for Gain; The First Tour Around the

Grand Canyon; A Visit to the Hava-Supai Indians; Experiences with the

Redskins; Killing of Whitmore and McIntire.

Chapter Eight

HAMBLIN AMONG THE INDIANS—Visiting the Paiutes with Powell; A Great

Conference with the Navajo; An Official Record of the Council; Navajos to

Keep South of the River; Tuba's Visit to the White Men; The Sacred Stone

of the Hopi; In the Land of the Navajo; Hamblin's Greatest Experience;

The Old Scout's Later Years.

Chapter Nine

CROSSING THE MIGHTY COLORADO—Early Use of "El Vado de Los Padres";

Ferrying at the Paria Mouth; John D. Lee on the Colorado; Lee's Canyon

Residence Was Brief; Crossing the Colorado on the Ice; Crossings Below

the Grand Canyon; Settlements North of the Canyon; Arizona's First

Telegraph Station; Arizona's Northernmost Village.

Chapter Ten

ARIZONA'S PIONEER NORTHWEST—History of the Southern Nevada Point; Map of

Pah-ute County; Missionaries of the Desert; Diplomatic Dealings with the

Redskins; Near Approaches to Indian Warfare; Utilization of the Colorado

River; Steamboats on the Shallow Stream; Establishing a River Port.

Chapter Eleven

IN THE VIRGIN AND MUDDY VALLEYS—First Agriculture in Northern Arizona;

Villages of Pioneer Days; Brigham Young Makes Inspection; Nevada Assumes

Jurisdiction; The Nevada Point Abandoned; Political Organization Within

Arizona; Pah-ute's Political Vicissitudes; Later Settlement in "The

Point,"; Salt Mountains of the Virgin; Peaceful Frontier Communities.

Chapter Twelve

THE UNITED ORDER—Development of a Communal System; Not a General Church

Movement; Mormon Cooperative Stores.

Chapter Thirteen

SPREADING INTO NORTHERN ARIZONA—Failure of the First Expeditions;

Missionary Scouts in Northeastern Arizona; Foundation of Four

Settlements; Northeastern Arizona Map; Genesis of St. Joseph; Struggling

with a Treacherous River; Decline and Fall of Sunset; Village Communal

Organization; Hospitality Was of Generous Sort; Brigham City's Varied

Industries; Brief Lives of Obed and Taylor.

Chapter Fourteen

TRAVEL, MISSIONS AND INDUSTRIES—Passing of the Boston Party; At the

Naming of Flagstaff; Southern Saints Brought Smallpox; Fort Moroni, at

LeRoux Spring; Stockaded Against the Indians; Mormon Dairy and the

Mount Trumbull Mill; Where Salt Was Secured; The Mission Post of Moen

Copie; Indians Who Knew Whose Ox Was Gored; A Woolen Factory in the

Wilds; Lot Smith and His End; Moen Copie Reverts to the Indians; Woodruff

and Its Water Troubles; Holbrook Once Was Horsehead Crossing.

Chapter Fifteen

SETTLEMENT SPREADS SOUTHWARD—Snowflake and Its Naming; Joseph Fish,

Historian; Taylor, Second of the Name; Shumway's Historic Founder;

Showlow Won in a Game of "Seven-Up"; Mountain Communities; Forest Dale on

the Reservation; Tonto Basin's Early Settlement.

Chapter Sixteen

LITTLE COLORADO SETTLEMENTS—Genesis of St. Johns; Land Purchased by

Mormons; Wild Celebration of St. John's Day; Disputes Over Land Titles;

Irrigation Difficulties and Disaster; Meager Rations at Concho;

Springerville and Eagar; A Land of Beaver and Bear; Altitudinous

Agriculture at Alpine; In Western New Mexico; New Mexican Locations.

Chapter Seventeen

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS—Nature and Man Both Were Difficult; Railroad Work

Brought Bread; Burden of a Railroad Land Grant; Little Trouble with

Indians; Church Administrative Features.

Chapter Eighteen

EXTENSION TOWARD MEXICO—Dan W. Jones' Great Exploring Trip; The

Pratt-Stewart-Trejo Expedition; Start of the Lehi Community; Plat of

Lehi; Transformation Wrought at Camp Utah; Departure of the Merrill

Party; Lehi's Later Development.

Chapter Nineteen

THE PLANTING OF MESA—Transformation of a Desert Plain; Use of a

Prehistoric Canal; Moving Upon the Mesa Townsite; An Irrigation Clash

That Did Not Come; Mesa's Civic Administration; Foundation of Alma;

Highways Into the Mountains; Hayden's Ferry, Latterly Tempe; Organization

of the Maricopa Stake; A Great Temple to Rise in Mesa.

Chapter Twenty

FIRST FAMILIES OF ARIZONA—Pueblo Dwellers of Ancient Times; Map of Prehistoric Canals; Evidences of Well-Developed Culture; Northward Trend of the Ancient People; The Great Reavis Land Grant Fraud.

Chapter Twenty-one

NEAR THE MEXICAN BORDER—Location on the San Pedro River; Malaria

Overcomes a Community; On the Route of the Mormon Battalion; Chronicles

of a Quiet Neighborhood; Looking Toward Homes in Mexico; Arizona's First

Artesian Well; Development of a Market at Tombstone.

Chapter Twenty-two

ON THE UPPER GILA—Ancient Dwellers and Military Travelers; Early Days

Around Safford; Map of Southeastern Arizona; Mormon Location at

Smithville; A Second Party Locates at Graham; Vicissitudes of Pioneering;

Gila Community of the Faith; Considering the Lamanites; The Hostile

Chiricahuas; Murders by Indian Raiders; Outlawry Along the Gila; A Gray

Highway of Danger.

Chapter Twenty-three

CIVIC AND CHURCH FEATURES—Troublesome River Conditions; Basic Law in a

Mormon Community; Layton, Soldier and Pioneer; A New Leader on the Gila;

Church Academies of Learning.

Chapter Twenty-four

MOVEMENT INTO MEXICO—Looking Over the Land; Colonization in Chihuahua;

Prosperity in an Alien Land; Abandonment of the Mountain Colonies; Sad

Days for the Sonora Colonists; Congressional Inquiry; Repopulation of the

Mexican Colonies.

Chapter Twenty-five

MODERN DEVELOPMENT—Oases Have Grown in the Desert; Prosperity Has

Succeeded Privation.