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for the first time. This
notably is true in regard to the settlement of the Muddy, the southern
point of Nevada, which in early political times was a part of Arizona
Territory and hence comes within this work's purview. There has been
inclusion of the march of the Mormon Battalion and of the Californian,
New Mexican and Mexican settlements, as affecting the major features
of Arizona's agricultural settlement and as contributing to a more
concrete grasp of the idea that drove the Mormon pioneers far afield
from the relative comfort of their Church centers.
JAS. H. McCLINTOCK, Arizona State Historian.
Phoenix, Arizona, May 31, 1921.

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;