Contents
Illustrations
Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Barneys on America’s Frontier: The Holland Land Purchase, 1800–1811
2 The Silhouette of Ohio: Barneys in America’s Interior, 1811–1826
3 These Fertile Prairies: Yankees on the Illinois Frontier, 1826–1832
4 On My Farm: Lewis Barney Comes of Age, 1833–1839
5 An Honest, Industrious People: Conversion to Mormonism, 1839–1840
6 Unaccustomed to City Life: Nauvoo and the Hancock Prairie, 1841–1844
7 A Gloom over the Country: The Final Years in Hancock County, 1844–1846
8 Midst Sighs and Lamentations: Iowa—Prelude to the West, 1846
9 A Story Makes a People: The Exodus to Zion, 1847
10 A Band of Brethren: The Return to Winter Quarters, 1847
11 Barney’s Grove: Iowa and the Last Trek to Zion, 1847–1852
12 We Managed to Live: The Palmyra Plain, 1852–1856
13 He Would Not Forsake His People: Spanish Fork and the Utah War, 1856–1858
14 We Left Them Crying: Spanish Fork and Springville, 1858–1861
15 Busted Up: Utah’s Sanpete and Sevier Valleys, 1861–1865
16 Beginning to Be Old: The Indian War and the Railway, 1865–1869
17 A Frontier Village: Monroe, Utah, 1871–1874
18 A Division with the People: The Monroe United Order of Enoch, 1874–1878
19 The Salvation of Thy Relatives and Friends: The Last Years in Sevier Valley, 1877–1882
20 Better Situated: Farther into the Frontier, 1882–1886
21 If It Takes the Rest of My Life: The Quixotical Family Kingdom, 1886–1894
Barney Family Relationships
Notes
Bibliography
Index