List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
1. “A Vast Unsettled Wilderness”: Growing Up on the Frontier, 1819–1841
2. “He Preached What I Had Long Been Seeking For”: Mormonism, 1842–1849
3. “My Wife Violently Attacted with Colery”: Cholera Country: Crossing the Plains, 1850
4. “When I Herd the Schreems of the Chirldin”: Becoming a “Messenger of Peace” in Tooele, 1850–1853
5. “We Ware Mormans Thare White Brothers”: The Southern Utah Indian Mission, 1854
6. “The Chief Shed Teers When He Saw Our Women and Children”: Founding Santa Clara, 1854–1856
7. “I Was Apointed to Take Charge of the Mision”: Marriage and Massacre during the Utah War, 1857
8. “The Gentiles Are Fiting Up Steamers to Explore the Colerado”: Encounter with Ives on the Lower Colorado, 1858
9. “In & Through the Roughefist Country It Has Ever Been My Lot to Travel”: Crossing the Colorado, Visiting the Hopis, late 1858
10. “Mr. Hamblin Has Discharged His Duty”: Collecting the Children and Second Expedition to the Hopis, 1859–1860
11. “Your Son . . . Partially Arose And Said Here I Am Shot”: Murder on the Trail and Flight from Quichintoweep, 1860
12. “I Want You to Give Dilligent Heed to This Letter”: Gathering the Bones, 1861
13. “The Last Vestige of the Fort . . . Had Disappeared and in [Its] Place Roar Now the Wild Torrents of the River”: The Big Washout, January 1862
14. “The Rocks Stand Up Biding Defiance to Wind and Weather in All Manner of Shapes”: Circling the Grand Canyon, 1862
15. “The Hight of the Rock and Its Smooth Surfis on Each Side P[r]esented the Seenery Grand and Sublime”: Founding Pearce’s Ferry, 1863
16. “A Raft Was Built on Which Bro Hamblin and Dayton Crossed”: Founding Lee’s Ferry and Callville, 1864
17. “Why She Ever Married ‘Old Jacob’ Was a Mystery”: The Death of Rachel and Marriage to Louisa, 1865
18. “I Never Was So Ashamed of Anything in My Life”: Murder and Massacre at Pipe Spring, 1866
19. “They Begged Him to Be Their Big Chief, Saying That They Had No Captains Left”: Re-founding Kanab and Boating on the Colorado, 1866–1868
20. “Started for the Canab Mision”: At Kanab and Pahreah, 1869
21. “We Will Now Ack Knowlage but One Father Suck the Milk of One Mother”: With Powell among the Uinkarets, and Treaty at Fort Defiance, 1870
22. “I Was Not Happy Unless I Was Miserable, For I Knew Nothing Except Hardships”: Rituals and Trials of a Missionary Family, 1870
23. “A Slow-Moving, Very Quiet Individual, Who Said He Was Jacob Hamblin”: Exploring the Escalante; Navajos in Kanab; At Lee’s Ferry, 1871
24. “They Died Off So Fast That There Were Hardly Any Left in a Short Time”: The Fate of the Santa Clara Paiutes, 1871
25. “Jacob Whiled Away the Evening ‘Yarning’”: Helping Powell and Lee, 1872
26. “We Wass the First Ones That Ever Crosed the Cilored with Wagons”: Mormons to Arizona, 1873
27. “The Indians . . . Were Murdered in Cold Blood by One Mccarthy and His Employees”: The Grass Valley Murders, Navajo Negotiations, and the Arizona Mission, 1874
28. “The Navajoes Carried on Quite an Extensive Trade with Our People”: At the Colorado Post, 1875
29. “If He Had His Choice He Should Desire to Live in Arizona”: Helping to Found the Little Colorado Mission, 1876–1877
30. “The Watering Places Are All Occupide by the White Man”: Hamblin, Powell, and the Kaibab Paiutes, 1877–1880
31. “He Had Always Led a Frontier Life”: Recircling the Grand Canyon; Counselor to Lot Smith, 1878
32. “I Am Now Located with a Part of My Family in Round Valley”: Springerville, Arizona, 1879–1882
33. “We Found a Nice Farm on the Frisco River”: New Mexico, Old Mexico, 1882–1885
34. “In a Small Cabin in the High Mountains of New Mexico”: The End of the Trail, 1886
35. Jacob Hamblin: Legacy
Appendix A: Jacob Hamblin’s Families
Appendix B: Jacob Hamblin’s Trips To and Across the Colorado
Notes
Bibliography
Index