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Author Compton, Todd, 1952-

Title A frontier life : Jacob Hamblin, explorer and Indian missionary / Todd M. Compton.

Publication Info. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2013.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Figures; Preface; Introduction; 1) "A Vast Unsettled Wilderness"; 2) "He Preached What I Had Long Been Seeking For"; 3) "My Wife Violently Attacted with Colery"; 4) "When I Herd the Schreems of the Chirldin"; 5) "We Ware Mormans Thare White Brothers"; 6) "The Chief Shed TeersWhen He Saw Our Women and Children"; 7) "I was Apointed to Take Charge of the Mision"; 8) "The Gentiles are Fiting Up Steamers to Explore the Colerado"; 9 "In & through the Roughefist Country It Has Ever Been My Lot to Travel"; 10 "Mr. Hamblin Has Discharged His Duty"
11) "Your Son . . . Partially Arose and Said Here I am Shot"12) "I Want You to Give Dilligent Heed to This Letter"; 13) "The Last Vestige of the Fort . . . Had Disappeared and in [Its] Place Roar Now the Wild Torrents of the River"; 14) "The Rocks Stand Up Biding Defiance to Wind and Weather in All Manner of Shapes"; 15) "The Hight of the Rock and Its Smooth Surfis on Each Side P[r]esented the Seenery Grand and Sublime"; 16) "A Raft was Built on Which Bro Hamblin and Dayton Crossed"; 17) "Why She Ever Married 'Old Jacob' Was a Mystery"; 18) "I Never Was So Ashamed of Anything in My Life"
19) "They Begged Him to be Their Big Chief, Saying That They Had No Captains Left"20) "Started for the Canab Mision"; 21) "We Will Now Ack Knowlage but One Father Suck the Milk of One Mother"; 22) "I Was Not Happy Unless I Was Miserable, For I Knew Nothing Except Hardships"; 23) "A Slow-moving, Very Quiet Individual, Who Said He Was Jacob Hamblin"; 24) "They Died Off So Fast That There Were Hardly Any Left in a Short Time"; 25) "Jacob Whiled Away the Evening 'Yarning'"; 26) "We Wass the First Ones That Ever Crosed the Cilored with Wagons"
27) "The Indians . . . Were Murdered in Cold Blood by One McCarthy and His Employees"28) "The Navajoes Carried on Quite an Extensive Trade with Our People"; 29) "If He Had His Choice He Should Desire to Live in Arizona"; 30) "The Watering Places Are All Occupide Buy the White Man"; 31) "He Had Always Led a Frontier Life"; 32) "I Am Now Located with a Part of My Family in Round Valley"; 33) "We Found a Nice Farm on the Frisco River"; 34) "In a Small Cabin in the High Mountains of New Mexico"; 35) "I Could Not Bare the Thought of Killing One of Them"; Appendix A: Jacob Hamlin's Families
Appendix B: Jacob Hamlin's Trips to and across the Colorado Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886.
Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886.
Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Indians of North America -- Missions.
Indians of North America -- Missions.
Latter Day Saint churches.
Latter Day Saint churches.
Utah -- Biography.
Utah.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Title Jacob Hamblin, explorer and Indian missionary
Other Form: Print version: Compton, Todd, 1952- Frontier life. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 2013 9781607812340 (DLC) 2013009238 (OCoLC)825046251
ISBN 9781607812357 (electronic book)
1607812355 (electronic book)
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