Early incidents of my life--Providential care over me--Marriage--Hear the Gospel, and embrace it--Signs follow--Opposed by relatives--Predict my Father's baptism--My Father Healed in answer to prayer. CHAPTER II. Arrival at Nauvoo--My first interview with the Prophet Joseph--Some first impressions of the character of the gathered Saints--Go east on an important mission--Death of the Prophet--Return to Nauvoo--Providential circumstance on the journey. CHAPTER III. Sidney Rigdon strives for the guardianship of the Church--He urges his claims at the Conference--Brigham Young, President of the Twelve, and others of the Quorum appear in the stand--A remarkable testimony that the mantle of Joseph had fallen upon Brigham Young--Persecutions of the Saints--Baptism of my Parents--Preparations for the exodus--Sickness--A Methodist comforter--Answer to prayer--Harvest of Quails--Miraculous incidents on the journey to Utah. CHAPTER IV. Locate in Tooele Valley--Indian troubles--Escape death by an Indian, by following the warning of the Spirit--Hunting Indians--Sudden aversion to shedding their blood--Decide to protect them at the risk of my life--Sent again to hunt and kill Indians--Testimony that the Lord did not want me to kill them, but to carry peace to them--A dream and its fulfillment. CHAPTER V. Mission to Southern Utah--Locate at Harmony--Remarkable Prophecies of Heber C. Kimball fulfilled--Indians Harvesting--Indian "Medicine man"--Indian woman healed under our administration--Accompany a hunting party--A fight for a squaw, in which I am compelled to take part--Sickness--Take my family to Southern Utah--Build a fort on the Santa Clara--Rain in answer to prayer--Counsel from President Young--We refuse to administer to the sick until they are washed--A sick boy dies, and the Indians grow mad and threaten us--We follow and pacify them. CHAPTER VI. Retributive justice to the Indians--We gain influence by it--The Lord gives the Indians testimonies of the truth--War between two bands of Indians--A woman burned to death from revenge--Promptings of the Spirit--Stolen horses recovered--Government among the Indians--Appointed president of the Indian mission--Visit of Apostle George A. Smith--United States army on its way to Utah--Elder Smith's advice to the Saints--Mountain Meadow massacre. CHAPTER VII. President Young requests me to pilot a company to California--Save a white man from being tortured by the Indians--Indians determined to kill the company--I pacify them--Elders Ira Hatch and Dudley Leavitt sentenced to be killed by the Mohaves--Elder Hatch softens their hearts by offering a prayer--Allowed to escape on foot. CHAPTER VIII. President Young's Indian policy--Expedition to Los Vegas and Colorado Rivers--Suspicious steamer in the Colorado--Learn its purpose--Go after a load of lead--Our horses stolen--Eat poison cactus--Led by the Spirit providentially. CHAPTER IX.