A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary

Todd Compton Examines And Disentangles Many Of The Myths And Controversies Surrounding Hamblin. His Grand Canyon Adventures And Explorations As A Guide Alongside John Wesley Powell Are Well Documented, As Are His Roles As A Missionary, Cultural Liaison, And Negotiator To The Indian Tribes Of Southern Utah And Arizona. A Vast Unsettled Wilderness : Growoing Up On The Frontier, 1819-1841 -- He Preached What I Had Long Been Seeking For : Mormonism, 1842-1849 -- My Wife Violently Attacted With Colery : Cholera Country: Crossing The Plains -- When I Herd The Schreems Of The Chirldin : Becoming A Messenger Of Peace In Tooele, 1850-1853 -- We Ware Mormans Thare White Brothers : The Southern Utah Indian Mission, 1854 -- The Chief Shed Tears When He Saw Our Women And Children : Founding Santa Clara, 1854-1856 -- I Was Apointed To Take Charge Of The Mission : Marriage And Massacre During The Utah War, 1857 -- The Gentiles Are Fiting Up Steamers To Explore The Colerado : Encounter With Ives On The Lower Colorado, 1858 -- In & Through The Roughefist Country It Has Ever Been My Lot To Travel : Crossing Teh Colorado, Visiting The Hopis, Late 1858 -- Mr. Hamblin Has Discharged His Duty : Collecting The Children And The Second Expedition To The Hopis, 1859-1860 --^ Your Son...partially Arose And Said Here I Am Shot : Murder On The Trail And Flight From Quichintoweep, 1860 -- I Want You To Give Dilligent Heed To This Letter : Gathering The Bones, 1861 -- The Last Vestige Of The Fort...had Disappeared And In [its] Place Roar Now The Wild Torrents Of The River : The Big Washout, January 1862 -- The Rocks Stand Up Building Defiance To Wind And Weather In All Manner Of Shapes : Circling The Grand Canyon, 1862 -- The Hight Of The Rock And Its Smooth Surfis On Each Side P[r]esented The Seenery Grand And Sublime : Founding Pearce's Ferry -- A Raft Was Built On Which Bro Hamblin And Dayton Crossed : Founding Lee's Ferry And Callville, 1864 -- Why She Ever Married 'old Jacob' Was A Mystery : The Death Of Rachel And Marriage To Louisa, 1865 -- I Never Was So Ashamed Of Anything In My Life : Murder And Massacre At Pipe Spring, 1866 --^ They Begged Him To Be Their Big Chief, Saying That They Had No Captains Left : Refounding Kanab And Boating On The Colorado, 1866-1868 -- Started For The Canab Mission : At Kanab And Pahreah, 1869 -- We Will Now Ack Knowlage But One Father Suck The Mild Of One Mother : With Powell Among The Uinkarets, And Treaty At Fort Defiance, 1870 -- I Ws Not Happy Unless I Was Miserable, For I Knew Nothing Except Hardships : Rituals And Trials Of A Missionary Family, 1870 -- A Slow-moving Very Quiet Individual, Who Said He Was Jacob Hamblin : Exploring The Escalante; Navajos In Kanab; At Lee's Ferry, 1871 -- They Died Off So Fast That They Were Hardly Any Left In A Short Time : The Fate Of The Santa Clara Paiutes, 1871 -- Jacob Whiled Away The Evening 'yarning' : Helping Powell And Lee, 1872 -- We Ws The First Ones That Ever Crossed Teh Cilored With Wagons : Mormons To Arizona, 1873 --^ The Indians...were Murdered In Cold Blood By One Mccarthy And His Employees : The Grass Valley Murders, Navajo Negotiations, And The Arizona Mission, 1874 -- The Navajoes Carried On Quite An Extensive Trade With Our People : At The Colorado Post, 1875 -- If He Had His Choice He Should Desire To Live In Arizona : Helping To Found The Little Colorado Mission, 1876-1877 -- The Watering Places Are All Occupide Buy The White Man : Hamblin, Powell, And The Kiabab Paiutes, 1877-1880 -- He Had Always Led A Frontier Life : Recircling The Grand Canyon; Counselor To Lot Smith, 1878 -- I Am Now Located With A Part Of My Family In Round Valley : Springville, Arizona, 1879-1882 -- We Found A Nice Farm On The Frisco River : New Mexico, Old Mexico, , 1882-1885 -- In A Small Cabin In The High Mountains Of New Mexico : The End Of The Trail, 1886 -- I Could Not Bare The Thought Of Killing One Of Them : Jacob Hamblin: Legacy. Todd M. Compton. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 493-627) And Index.