Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847Young, John R.
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Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847
Young, John R.
Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Utah -- Biography; Young, John R., 1837-
CHAPTER 12.
Hear of Parley P. Pratt's Death.--Buchanan Sends Harney to
Utah.--Letter From Brigham Young
CHAPTER 13.
Praise for the Elders.--Efforts to Bring Two Natives to Utah.--Sail for
Home.--Description of Steerage.--An Earnest Prayer.--Timidity of the
Saints.--Baptize a New Convert at Midnight
CHAPTER 14.
Visit My Cousin.--His Tempting Offer.--Meet the Agents of Mr. Walker,
the noted Filibusterer.--Baptize Mrs. Bradford
CHAPTER 15.
Start for a Thirteen-Hundred-Mile Walk.--Become Indian Scout.--Meet
Jacob Hamblin, the Indian Peacemaker.--Surrounded by Indians.--Shooting
a Dove, Saves our Scalps
CHAPTER 16.
Home Activities.--Counseled not to Study Law.--Called to Uintah and
Dixie
CHAPTER 17.
Miss Carmichael's Parting Words.--San Francisco.--Orson Pratt's
Prophecy.--Sail for Hawaii.--Delivered from the Hands of a Wicked
Man.--Visit Walter M. Gibson.--View Kawaimanu
CHAPTER 18.
Conference at Wailuku.--Return to Honolulu.--Sail for Home.--Man
Overboard
CHAPTER 19.
United Order.--Indian Troubles.--Mission to England
CHAPTER 20.
Transferred to the Bristol Conference.--A Remarkable Woman.--My Views
of Celestial Marriage
CHAPTER 21.
A Visit to Wales.--Mrs. Simon's Good Work.--A Tribute to Joseph
Fielding Smith.--A Letter from my Wife, Albina
CHAPTER 22.
Death of Jehiel McConnell.--A Letter to my Daughter.--Five Thousand
Dollar Reward.--Letter from Apostle Joseph F. Smith
CHAPTER 23.
A Letter to my Son.--An Enquirer Answered.--The Sinking of the
Euridice, Four Hundred Men Perish.--Letters from Home.--Two Splendid
Dreams
CHAPTER 24.
Death of a Lady Apostle Woodruff Baptized in 1840, At
Midnight.--Baptize an Aged Backslider.--A Letter from Apostle Wilford
Woodruff.--Transferred to the London Conference
CHAPTER 25.
Visit London, the Grandest City in the World.--Meet the Claridge
Family, and Leave My Testimony With Them.--Visit Portsmouth and the
Home of Nellie Grant Sardys.--Labor With Elder Connelly.--Rake Hay and
Receive a Gift from an English Lord
CHAPTER 26.
Conditions at Orderville.--Letter to E. M. Webb, on Politics.--Visit
Winchester Cathedral.--Pass Through the Town of London.--Letter from
President William Budge.--Mobbed at Albourne
CHAPTER 27.
Goodbye to England.--A Poem.--The Master's Question
CHAPTER 28.
In memory of My Wife, Albina.--"By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them"
CHAPTER 29.
In Memory of My Wife, Lydia
CHAPTER 30.
In Memory of My Wife, Tamar, and Sacred to My Wife Catherine
APPENDIX--STORIES AND RHYMES.
CHAPTER 31.
Twenty-fourth of July Musings Sent to President Joseph F.
Smith.--Twenty-fourth of July Toast.--Utah.--Thrilling Eruption of
Kilauea
CHAPTER 32.
A Thrilling Experience on the Plains.--The Stampede
CHAPTER 33.
A Squaw Fight
CHAPTER 34.
Crusade Against Plural Marriage
CHAPTER 35.
Salt Lake Valley in 1847.--Utah Pioneers.--A Peaceful Home
CHAPTER 36.
From the Cradle to the Grave.--Lines to Sister M. L.
CHAPTER 37.
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