Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley / Frederick Hawkins Piercy; Fawn M. Brodie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piercy, Frederick Hawkins, author.

Contributor:

Brodie, Fawn M., editor.

Series:

John Harvard Library

The John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Geografie, Reisen.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Travel.

Mormons.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

Utah--Description and travel.

Local Subjects:

Mormons.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

Utah--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.): 36 Taf.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...how little a really good thing is sometimes appreciated. The first objects I saw in approaching the city were the remains of what was once the Temple, tion of the Church, and on principles so broad that every honest man might dwell secure under its protective influence, without distinction of sect or party." Having laid this foundation for the gathering of the Saints, a proclamation was issued on the 15th of January, 1841, by the First Presidency of the Church--Joseph Smith, Sidney fiidgon and Hyrum Smith, inviting the wealthy to remove to Nauvoo and neighbourhood, and establish and build up manufactories in the city, and purchase and cultivate farms in the country, that a permanent inheritance might be secured, and the way prepared for the gathering of the poor. At this time the population of the city was upwards of 3000. John C. Bennett, M.D., was elected first mayor. An early ordinance, passed by the Corporation, was one in relation to religious liberty. It provided that all religious sects and denominations should have free toleration and equal privileges within the city, and that any person ridiculing or abusing another on account of his religious belief, should, on conviction thereof before the Mayor or Municipal Court, be fined in any sum not exceeding 500 dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding 6 months. On the 3rd of February, ordinances were passed organizing the Nauvoo Legion and the University, and on the 15th, one was passed regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors, with a view to prevent the introduction of drunkenness into the city. On the 10th of March the State Legislature passed "An Act to incorporate the Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufacturing Association, in the county of Hancock." The object of this association was the prom...

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Introduction

NOTE ON THE TEXT

PREFACE / Linforth, James

CHAPTER I. Commencement of The Latter-day Saints' Emigration~History Until the Suspension in 1846

CHAPTER II. Memorial to the Queen~Re-opening of the Emigration~History Until 1851

CHAPTER III. History of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund~Act of Incorporation by the General Assembly of Deseret

CHAPTER IV. History of the Emigration from 1851 to 1852~Contemplated Routes via the Isthmus of Panama and Cape Horn

CHAPTER V. History of the Emigration from 1852 to April, 1854~Extensive Operations of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company

CHAPTER VI. Foreign Emigration Passing Through Liverpool

CHAPTER VII. Statistics of The Latter-day Saints' Emigration from the British Isles

CHAPTER VIII. Mode of Conducting the Emigration

CHAPTER IX. Instructions to Emigrants

CHAPTER X. Departure from Liverpool~San Domingo~Cuba~The Gulf of Mexico~The Mississippi River~The Balize~Arrival at New Orleans~Attempts of "Sharpers" to Board the Ship and Pilfer from the Emigrants

CHAPTER XI. Louisiana~the City of New Orleans~Disembarkation

CHAPTER XII. Departure from New Orleans~Steam-Boats~Negro- Slavery~Carrollton~the Face of the Country~Baton Rouge~Red River~Mississippi~Unwholesomeness of the Waters of the Mississippi~Danger in Procuring Water from the Stream~Washing Away of the Banks of the River~Snags~Landing at Natchez at N i g h t - Beautiful Effect Caused by Reflection on the Water of the Light from the Steam-Boat Windows- American Taverns and Hospitality~Rapidity at Meals ~American Cooking-Stoves and Washing-Boards~ Old Fort Rosalie~An Amateur Artist

CHAPTER XIII. Perpetual Motion~Fiat-Boats~Vicksburgh~ "Lynching" of Gamblers~An Hibernian's Defence of Printing~Walnut Hills~Yazoo River~Arkansas~Arkansas River~Tennessee~Memphis~German Reverence for Art~Negroes; Quarrel Between Two Rival Teamsters; Love of Finery; Piquing a White Dandy; Negro Blood in European Veins

CHAPTER XIV. Plumb Point Bars~Missouri~Little Prairie~Kentucky~The Ohio River~Cairo City and Ohio City~Illinois~Cornice Rocks~Devil's Bake Ovens~ Kaskaskia River, and the Great American Bottom~Fort Chartres~St. Louis

CHAPTER XV. Departure from St. Louis~Sketching Apparatus and Seat~American Inquisitiveness~Alton~Quincy~Arrival at Keokuk~The Camp, its Situation and Arrangement~"Spiritualism and Spirit Rapping"

CHAPTER XVI. Visit to Nauvoo~The Temple~The Icarians~ Interview with Lucy Smith~Sketch of Her Life~ Joseph and David Smith, Sons of the Prophet~Visit to Carthage Jail~Sketches of the Lives of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, Willard Richards, and John Taylor

CHAPTER XVII. Return to St. Louis~Iowa~Kanesville~The Necessity of Great Care in Procuring an Outfit~Shoeing Oxen~Costume for the Plains~Council Bluffs Ferry and Group of Cottonwood Trees~Crossing the Missouri into Indian Territory; Nebraska and Kansas~Winter Quarters~Council Bluffs and the Missouri River from an Elevation~Organizing for the Plains~Importance of Herding and Guarding the Cattle

CHAPTER XVIII. Departure from Council Bluffs~Six Mile Grove~ "Geeing" and "Hawing"~Ludicrous Efforts of the Teamsters~Pappea Creek~A Night on Guard- Fright Among the Oxen~Elk Horn Ferry~Prairie Dogs~Shell Creek~Accident to Henry Randell; Surgery on the Plains~Pawnee Indians; Theft~Indian Marksmanship~Double Team to Get Through a Slough~Loup Fork Ferry~Elder Miller's Mules Stray; Unsuccessful Search for Them; The Mules Found~Prairie Creek; Dangerous Descent to the Bridge; A Wagon Upset into the Creek~Wood River~Elm Creek~Buffalo Hunt~Mosquitoes Impede the Progress of the Train~Indian Subtlety~Skunk Creek~A Drink at a Stream, and a Snake~Wide Creek~Halt for General Repairs

CHAPTER XIX. Departure from Wide Creek~Cooking with Buffalo Chips~Death of Elder Cooley's Child~A Delicate Morsel for a Cow~The "Lone Tree"~Ancient Bluff Ruins~Chimney Rock~Meeting of Missionaries from G. S. L. Valley-Scott's Bluff-Laramie's Peak- Separation of the Company

CHAPTER XX. Proceed in Advance of the Main Company~Plan of Travel~Account of Mr. Furze's Death~Alkali Lakes~Rock Independence~Devil's Gate~The "South Pass" of the Rocky Mountains~Prairie Hens~Utah Territory~Fort Bridger~Witches' Bluffs~Arrival at Great Salt Lake City

CHAPTER XXI. Great Salt Lake City~Brigham Young~Heber C. Kimball~Jedediah M. Grant~Father John Smith

Appendix I. by Linforth: Emigration Appendix

APPENDIX II. Linforth's Notes to Piercy's Narrative

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-86360-7

OCLC:

1013946412