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Title: Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time.
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Beadle, J. H. (John Hanson), 1840-1897.
Subjects: Mormons.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co.
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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signifies, in their lan-guage, man, dweller, or resident, and by the additionsof other syllables, we have the three grand divisions of thatrace: Pi-Utes, Gosha-Utes, Pah-Utes, which may be freelytranslated mountaineers, valley men, and dwellers bythe water, those prefixes respectively indicating mountain, valley, and water. Of all these the bravest are the moun-tain Utes, among whom we might include the Uintahs; butthe Indians of the lower countries are rather cowardly, anddangerous only by theft or treachery. Far superior to any ofthese are the Shoshonees or Snakes, found all along the north-ern border of Utah, and extending thence northeast to theBannocks and westward into Idaho and Nevada. They have a complete tribal organization, and somethinglike government and council among themselves; own horsesand cattle, and display some ingenuity in their dwellings, andin the construction of fish-weirs and traps of willow bushes.They feel also something like pride of race, and to call a Sho-
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(389) 390 . POLYGAMY; OE, THE MYSTERIES shonee a digger, is more of an insult than to stigmatize avery light mulatto as a nigger. The origin of the Indians has been a subject of frequent in-quiry among American antiquarians. Some sixty years ago,an idea was broached, and for a ^hile prevailed quite exten-sively, that they were the descendants of the lost tribes ofancient Israel, and that veracious chronicle, the Book of Mor-mon, has traced their descent from a Jewish family, who leftJerusalem six hundred years before Christ. But if we are todraw our arguments from any recognized human source, fromlanguage, features, customs, habits or traditions, there are notwo races on earth of whose kinship there is so little proof. After the Indians, in the order of time, came the Mormons.They were the first white residents, and their history is the his-tory of the Territory. Since July 24th, 1847, this has beentheir gathering place, the Territory of the Lord and BrotherBrigham; a consecrated land

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