[Illustration: J. D. Gillilan (signature)] TRAIL TALES BY JAMES DAVID GILLILAN THE ABINGDON PRESS NEW YORK--CINCINNATI Copyright, 1915, by JAMES DAVID GILLILAN DEDICATED AFFECTIONATELY TO MY MOTHER, TO MY WIFE; LIKEWISE TO THE PREACHERS OF UTAH MISSION AND IDAHO ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONTENTS PREFACE 9 GOD'S MINISTER 11 THE WESTERN TRAIL 13 THE LONG TRAIL 19 THE DESERT 31 SAGEBRUSH 39 THE IRON TRAIL 47 A Railroad Saint in Idaho 49 An Unusual Kindness 59 INDIANS OF THE TRAIL 63 Introductory Words 65 Pocatello, the Chief 67 The Babyless Mother 72 Mary Muskrat 76 Bad Ben 79 A Three-Cornered Sermon 82 Three Years After 87 Chief Joseph and His Lost Wallowa 92 The White Man's Book 96 LIGHTS AND SIDELIGHTS 99 THE STAGECOACH 107 AMONG THE HILLS 117 The Mother Deer 119 The Shepherd 121 The Feathered Drummer 122 MORMONDOM 123 The Trail of the Mormon 125 Some Mormon Beliefs 131 Weber Tom, Ute Polygamist 138 Polygamy of To-Day 145 GREAT SALT LAKE 149 ARGONAUT SAM'S TALE 157 THE WRAITH OF THE BLIZZARD 167 THE GREAT NORTHWEST 175 ILLUSTRATIONS