Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . ad dressed in a buckskin suit, with spangledMexican jacket, stout moccasins handsomely worked, beadedscarf, and flowered calico head-wrap; so, at a distance, I waseverywhere taken for an Indian. Marriage with Indianwomen is a strong point in the religion of these Southern Mor-mons, and the men were delighted with my description of thegrace, beauty, and general desirableness of Navajo girls, withwhich tribe they were then seeking an alliance. i52 po
Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time. . ad dressed in a buckskin suit, with spangledMexican jacket, stout moccasins handsomely worked, beadedscarf, and flowered calico head-wrap; so, at a distance, I waseverywhere taken for an Indian. Marriage with Indianwomen is a strong point in the religion of these Southern Mor-mons, and the men were delighted with my description of thegrace, beauty, and general desirableness of Navajo girls, withwhich tribe they were then seeking an alliance. i52 polygamy; ok, the mysteries My uext journey was to Toquerville, where I stopped withBishop Isaac C. Haight, another leader in the Mountain Mead-ows Massacre, and a prominent Mormon. Ripe figs, justphrcked from the tree, formed part of our dessert. The nar-row valley is very fertile; all around are yellow hills and reddeserts. A leisurely journey of a day brought me thence toKanarra, in the rim of the Great Basin. In the south end oftown the water flows towards the Colorado, in the north endmto the Great Basin. Thence I made a leisurely journey. SCENE OP THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE, A FEW among the noted places of Southern Utah, gathering in a veryquiet way all possible information about the Mountain Mead-ows Massacre. My next rest was at Parowan, whence I rodeleisurely into Beaver—the last Gentile outpost in that directionat that time. Beaver had been revolutionized by the development ofmines. Gentiles were to be seen everywhere, and a militarypost had been established near town. Thence by stage it wastwo hundred and fifty miles to Zion; and I was pleased to AND CRIMES OP MORMONISM. 453 recognize, in the first driver, my old friend Will Kimball, whodrove a team across the plains in the train with me in father was one of the many arrested the previouswinter on charges relating to the conduct of the Mormon mili-tia in the rebellion of 1857, but was re
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