Front matter
Reading edition
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
J. D. Gillilan Frontispiece
Chief Joseph, Nez Perce Indian 64
Wallowa Lake 94
End of the Trail 183