Fort Limhi : the Mormon adventure in Oregon territory, 1855-1858 / by David L. Bigler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bigler, David L., 1927-2018.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saint churches--Missions.

History.

Indians of North America--Missions.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Latter Day Saint missionaries.

Latter Day Saint pioneers.

Fort Lemhi (Idaho)--History.

Fort Lemhi (Idaho).

Latter Day Saint pioneers--Idaho--Lemhi County--History.

Latter Day Saint missionaries--Idaho--Lemhi County--History.

Frontier and pioneer life--Idaho--Lemhi County.

Indians of North America--Missions--Idaho--Lemhi County--History--19th century.

Indians of North America.

Latter Day Saint churches--Missions--Idaho--Lemhi County--History--19th century.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Lemhi County (Idaho)--History--19th century.

Lemhi County (Idaho).

Oregon Territory--History.

Oregon Territory.

Idaho--Lemhi County.

Physical Description:

372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2004.

Contents:

1. Sound an Alarm 29

Attack on Fort Limhi

"An Armed Mercenary Mob"

The Alarm Sounds

Army of Israel to the Rescue

"Frank" Cummings Rides North

2. To the Remnants of Jacob 47

Fortified Mormon Outposts

The Gospel Net

The Trail North

David Moore: The Fort Is Kept Very Neat & Clean

David Moore: The Mountaineers All Seemed Very Anxious to Find Out What Was Up

David Moore: A Very Handsome Piece of Table Land

3. A Piece of Ground for a Preacher 71

The Building of Fort Limhi

David Moore: A Trap to Catch Them In

George Washington Hill: Knocked Down as Dead

William Clark's Son

R. H. Thompson: Their Most Brutal Violence

Thomas S. Smith: All Want to Learn to be Mormons

B. F. Cummings: To Be Put in to One Bag and Sent to President Young

First Women

David Moore: We Here Found One Henry Miller

David Moore: Leaving His Buffalo Robe on the Ground

4. Of Grasshoppers and Reformation 95

A Winter Journey

David Moore: Bringing Several Decks of Cards Here

B. F. Cummings: Suffering among the People

Indian Baptisms

Jacob Miller: We Tried to Head Them Off

Thomas Smith: Onely One Thing They Are Good Fore

Brigham Young: To Be Filled with the Holy Ghost

5. A Gathering Place for Israel 115

Brigham Young Bids for Fort Hall

B. F. Cummings: Visit to Bitter Root Valley

Homeland of the Flatheads

B. F. Cummings: The Most Picturesque and Romantic Scenery

An Express to Young

Milton Hammond: Belnap Traded for a Cow

Lewis Shurtliff: The Blood from Our Horses Legs

Brigham Young Looks North

"Utah": To Join the Mormons in a War Against the Government Forces

Garland Hurt Lays a Snare

6. Gov. Brigham ... Coming on 135

Brigham Young's Longest Journey

The Snake River Crossing

Young's Arrival at Fort Limhi

James W. Cummings: The Appearance of Industry and Frugality

Marrying a Chief's Daughter

Brigham Young: I Do Not Urge It upon You

James W. Cummings: Seeing the Big Mormon Chief

The Redemption of the Sons of the Forest: Amos Wright's Blessing

Brigham Young: The Farther We went North ...

Brigham Young: The North Is the Place for Us

Garland Hurt's Snare Misfires

Trouble on the Frontier

7. One of Nature's Ladies 161

Invitation to Marry

Lewis Shurtliff: A Butifull Vision

The Chief's Daughter

Lewis Shurtliff: It Was Me She Wanted

Lewis Shurtliff: Two Rose Trees Had Grown and Twined

8. The Mormon Rebellion 175

James Buchanan Sends in the Troops

Brigham Young: On the North Side of Lake Superior

Fort Limhi Strengthened

Acting Clerk Jacob Miller: The Imps of Hell

James Miller: A Feeling He Would Never Return Alive

Brigham Young: The Saints Shall Be Free

The Trial of Sylvanus Collett

The Second Fort

Military Moves on the High Plains

9. The Devil Is At Work Among the Lamanites 197

To Beg for Their Subsistence: Causes of Indian Unrest

Jacob Miller: A Signal from Black feet Indians

First Signs of Trouble

A Harmful Rumor

Lewis Shurtliff: We Would Cast Lots

The December Confrontation

John J. Healy: He Went up the Travois Like a Cat

Oliver Robinson: "The Indians About Us Do Not Feel Just Right Toward Us"

David Moore: The Young Indians Held a War Dance

David Moore: He Was Going to Tell the Soldiers

10. The Hills Were Black with Indians 219

Milton Hammond: We Could Hear the Indians Whooping

Still Alive But Very Feeble: The Ordeal of the Herders

Thomas S. Smith: They Were Driving the Brethren Back

The Search for James Miller

Fort Limhi Buries Its Dead

Thomas Smith: We Are Prepairing for a Regullar Siege

David Moore: Cut Off from the Church

11. Ten Men and Four Gallons of Whiskey 239

Bold, Imaginative, Restless: B. F. Ficklin

An Expedition to the Flatheads

12. A Time to Every Purpose 259

Something Had Transpired: Young Offers an Olive Branch

Brigham Young: Vacate the Fort and Come Home

Caliber of Mormon Troops

Jacob Miller: Horses Were Wallowing up to the Sides in Snow

"Frank" Cummings's Luck Runs Out

B. F. Cummings: We Turned and Fired on Them

Fort Limhi Abandoned

All Began to Be Changed: Israel Moves South

Milton Hammond: The Mormons ... Has Gained the Victory

13. From a Camp of U.S. Troops 281

In Collusion with the Indians: The Opening Salvo

Thomas S. Smith: Powell Came to the Camp of the Indians

Garland Hurt: Ready to Confront my Accusers

Jacob Forney: I Can Speak Confidently for the Tribes

B. F. Ficklin: Mormons Furnishing ... Nez Perces Arms and Ammunition

John W. Powell: Six Indians Attacked the Mormons

Craven Jackson: He Was Stopped by the Mormons

The Cover Up

14. Conspiracy or Coincidence? 299

Sources of Disaffection

B. F. Ficklin: Motive and Opportunity

John W. Powell: Active Participant

Mystery of the Vanishing Herd

The Ficklin-Powell Duel

Gilbert Belnap: We Were Like the Puritans

The Wild Life: John W. Powell

Benjamin Franklin Ficklin

Lewis W. Shurtliff

Chief Snag and Catherine

George Washington Hill

Thomas Sasson Smith

Benjamin Franklin Cummings

The Ruins of a World

Appendix A A Comprehensive List of Missionaries, Family Members, and Hired Hands Who Served at Fort Limhi from May 1855 to April 1858 329

Appendix B Members of Brigham Young's Company to Fort Limhi in April-May 1857, as Recorded by James W. Cummings, Clerk of the Camp 331

Appendix C A Report of Brigham Young's Expedition to Oregon Territory 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-352) and index.

ISBN:

0874215692

9780874215694

OCLC:

52377434