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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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MODERN DEVELOPMENT--Oases Have Grown in the Desert; Prosperity Has Succeeded Privation.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PLACE NAMES OF THE SOUTHWEST
CHRONOLOGY
TRAGEDIES OF THE FRONTIER
INDEX
MAP OF ARIZONA MORMON SETTLEMENT
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
"El Vado," Pioneer Gateway into Arizona
Mormon Battalion Officers
Battalion Members at Gold Discovery in California
Battalion Members who Returned to Arizona
Battalion Members who Returned to Arizona
Battalion Members who Returned to Arizona
The Mormon Battalion Monument
Old Spanish Pueblo of Tubac
Jacob Hamblin, "Apostle to the Lamanites"
The Church Presidents
Lieutenant Ives' Steamboat on the Colorado in 1858
Ammon M. Tenney, Pioneer Scout of the Southwest
Early Missionaries Among the Indians
Moen Copie, First Headquarters of Missionaries to the Moquis
Pipe Springs or Windsor Castle
Moccasin Springs on Road to the Paria
In the Kaibab Forest, near the Home of the Shivwits Indians
A Fredonia Street Scene
Walpi, One of the Hopi (Moqui) Villages
Warren M. Johnson's House at Paria Ferry
Crossing of the Colorado at the Paria Ferry
Brigham Young and Party at Mouth of Virgin in 1870
Baptism of the Tribe of Shivwits Indians
Founders of the Colorado River Ferries
Crossing the Colorado River at Scanlon's Ferry
Crossing the Little Colorado River with Ox Teams
Old Fort at Brigham City
Woodruff Dam, After One of the Frequent Washouts
First Permanent Dam at St. Joseph
Colorado Ferry and Ranch at the Mouth of the Paria (G.W. James)
Lee Cabin at Moen Avi (Photo by Dr. Geo. Wharton James)
Moen Copie Woolen Mill
Grand Falls on the Little Colorado
Old Fort Moroni with its Stockade
Fort Moroni in Later Years
Erastus Snow, Who Had Charge of Arizona Colonization
Anthony W. Ivins
Joseph W. McMurrin
Joseph Fish, an Arizona Historian
Joseph H. Richards of St. Joseph
St. Joseph Pioneers and Historian Andrew Jenson
Shumway and the Old Mill on Silver Creek
First Mormon School, Church and Bowery at St. Johns
David K. Udall and His First Residence at St. Johns
St. Johns in 1887
Stake Academy at St. Johns
Founders of Northern Arizona Settlements
Group of Pioneers
Presidents of Five Arizona Stakes
Old Academy at Snowflake
New Academy at Snowflake
The Desolate Road to the Colorado Ferry
Leaders of Unsuccessful Expeditions
First Party to Southern Arizona and Mexico
Second Party to Southern Arizona and Mexico
Original Lehi Locators
Founders of Mesa
Maricopa Stake Presidents
Maricopa Delegation at Pinetop Conference
The Arizona Temple at Mesa
Jonathan Heaton and His Fifteen Sons
Northern Arizona Pioneers
Teeples House, First in Pima
First Schoolhouse at Safford
Gila Normal College at Thatcher
Gila Valley Pioneers
Pioneer Women of the Gila Valley
Killed by Indians
Killed by Outlaws
SPECIAL MAPS
State of Deseret
Pah-ute County, Showing the Muddy Settlements
Northeastern Arizona, Showing Little Colorado Settlements
Lehi, Plan of Settlement
Ancient Canals of Salt River Valley
Southeastern Arizona
Arizona Mormon Settlement and Early Roads
Chapter One
Wilderness Breakers
Mormon Colonization In the West
The Author would ask earliest appreciation by the reader that this work on "Mormon Settlement in Arizona" has been written by one entirely outside that faith and that, in no way, has it to do with the doctrines of a sect set aside as distinct and peculiar to itself, though it claims fellowship with any denomination that follows the teachings of the Nazarene. The very word "Mormon" in publications of that denomination usually is put within quotation marks, accepted only as a nickname for the preferred and lengthier title of "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." Outside the Church, the word, at least till within a decade or so, has been one that has formed the foundation for much of denunciation. There was somewhat of pathos in the remark to the Author by a high Mormon official, "There never has been middle ground in literature that affected the Mormons--it either has been written against us or for us." From a religious standpoint, this work is on neutral ground. But, from the
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