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Title: Our new West. Records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the plains--over the mountains--through the great interior basin--over the Sierra Nevadas--to and up and down the Pacific coast. With details of the wonderful natural scenery, agriculture, mines , business, social life, progress, and prospects ... including a full description of the Pacific railroad; and of the life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese. With map, portraits, and twelve full page illustrations
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Bowles, Samuel, 1826-1878
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Publisher: Hartford, Ct., Hartford publishing co. New York, J.D. Dennison (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Services of the Mormons—Preaching byBrigham Young—Extracts from Mormon Sermons—Mr. Colfax inthe Mormon Pulpit—How does Polygamy Work?—The Children—The Husbands and the Wives—What the Latter Say and Howthey Bear it—Illustrations of Polygamous Life and Habits—Brig-ham Youngs Children and Wives—Beauty and the Beast—Listof Youngs Harem. Of course we had a good deal of curiosity, while inUtah, to study the persons and characters of theMormon leaders and the operation of polygamy 3 andthough one avenue to information was largely deniedus, every other was freely open, and the lackingin that was measurably made up to us by plenty ofsecond-hand testimony from and about the fractionalwives of the saints. When we arrived, BrighamYoung was away from the city; but he soon cameback in grand state, for he travels among his subjectslike an oriental prince, with procession of carriagesand men on horseback. He takes with him alwaystwo personal servants, one a barber, and the other
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S.Lr Lak. Cxxr-BB:aH.M Yoo.o-Pkoposkb Mo;:;;;^p,, HOW BRIGHAM YOUNG LOOKS. 235 one of his wives. Directly lie came, with half adozen of his Apostles, to pay his respects to Mr.Colfax,—for the Speaker had given out that heshould observe Washington etiquette, and not callfirst on him, which pleased the Gentiles,—and theyspent most of a morning with us. We had free andfamiliar talk of the Territory and its industries, ofthe scenery, of irrigation, of the Indians, of every-thing but the one theme upon which both sides werethe most eager to compare notes. Young explainedto me the Mormon policy as to the Indians; in brief,it was that they had found it cheaper and easier tofeed them than to fight them. But, he said, theycould not last long; the food and the diseases of civ-ilization are killing them off; even white bread, ofwhich they are very fond, weakens and destroys theirconstitutions. And he told of an Indian boy, whomhe took into his family, robust and healthy, but,thouo:h he fared

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