Prepare to Leave California—Snow in the Mountains Causes a Wait till the Last of June—Discover a Rich Gold Prospect—Leave it to Make the Journey over the Mountains—No Regrets at Abandoning the Mines in Answer to a Call of Duty—Camp Organized in Pleasant Valley—Start on the Trip—Three Members of the Party Ahead, Looking out the Route, Found Murdered by Indians at Tragedy Springs—Covering the Bodies—Stampede of Animals—Guarding Against Hostile Indians—Crossing the Divide in Snow—The Writer Fooled—Take Two Indians Prisoners—Cutting a Road—Horses Stolen by Indians—Pursuit to Capture them—In Carson Valley—Along Humboldt River—At Steamboat Springs—Over the Desert—Member of the Party Wants to Kill Indians—The Writer's Emphatic Objection—Indians Wound Stock—Addison Pratt as a Lucky Fisherman—Writer Trades with an Indian—The Red Man's Trick—Writer Pursues him into the Indian Camp—Escape from Danger—Journey to Bear River—Hot and Cold Water Springs—Reach Box Elder—View the Great Salt Lake—Arrive at Ogden, where Captain Brown and some Saints had Settled—Journey to the Mormon Camp on what is now Pioneer Square, Salt Lake City—Heartily Welcomed by Relatives and Friends—Rejoicing and Thanksgiving.
Contentment Among the Saints in Great Salt Lake Valley—Rude Dwellings and Short Rations—Trying Experiences—Rescue of Mormon Battalion Members from Starvation—Carry News of California Gold Discovery to the East—Re-union of Mormon Battalion Members—Addresses by the First Presidency and Others—Settling a New Country—Organization of Minute Men—Cold Winter—The Gold Fever—Tenor of the Preaching and Prophesyings of those Times—Instructing the People in Industrial Pursuits—Policy Towards the Indians.
Scarcity of Food in the Great Salt Lake Valley—Wild Vegetables for Greens—Fair Prospects for Crops—Clouds of Crickets lay Bare the Fields—People struggle Against the Pests Almost to Despair—Vast Flocks of Sea Gulls, as the Clouds of Heaven, Come to the Rescue—Destruction of the Crickets—People Praise the Lord—The Writer Invited to a Meeting, Ordained a Seventy, and Called with Others to go on a Mission to the Society Islands—Words of Presidents Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball—Preparations to Travel to California with an Emigrant Company—Description of the Route by Captain Jefferson Hunt—Start on My Mission—Prophecy by President Willard Richards—Battle with Indians at Provo Averted by Apostle C. C. Rich—Prospects of Utah Valley to Support Population—Overtake the Emigrant Company—Discussions at Beaver River—Company Starts for Walker's Pass—Turned Back by Scarcity of Water—Experience on the Desert—Dissensions in the Company—Futile Attempt to send some of the Members Back—Apostle C. C. Rich Foresees Further Trouble, and Endeavors to Save the Mormon Part of the Train by Advising Them to Return to the Old Spanish Trail—Methodist and Campbellite Ministers Incite the Company Against their Mormon Guide, Captain Hunt—Main Company Disregards Captain Hunt's Warning of Danger, and Leaves the Old Spanish Trail to Search for the Route Through Walker's Pass—Mormons go with Captain Hunt on the Southern Route.
Caught in a Snowstorm—Via the Santa Clara and Rio Virgen to the Muddy—News of Sad Disaster to the Emigrant Company—Making Charcoal and Nails—An Apostle as a Blacksmith—Searching for Water on the Desert—Crossing an Alkali Stream—Discover Gold near Salt Springs—Hurrying on over the Desert—Cattle Poisoned at Bitter Springs—Killing Animals to Relieve their Sufferings—First Wagon over Cajon Pass, going West—Severe Journey to the Summit of the Pass—All get Over Safely—Sense of Great Relief—Grass and Water In Abundance—Overtaken by survivors of the Emigrant Company—Their Story of Terrible Suffering—Divide Provisions with Them—Celebrating Christmas, 1849—Continuing the Journey North—Spanish Warning in a Cemetery to Indians—Cruelty of the Spaniards to the Indians—The Writer Placed In Charge of the Company—Directed to go to the Gold Mines.
Journeying Toward the Gold Diggings—Threatened by Wild Horses—Difficulties of Traveling—Convocation of the Feathered Creation—Rejoin Our Friends—Ferrying Across a River—Strike a Gold Prospect—On a Prospecting Tour—An Agreement that Failed—Instructed to go to San Francisco to proceed on a Mission—Trip to Stockton—Gamblers, Sharpers and Miners at that Place—A Temptation Overcome—Arrive in San Francisco—Welcomed by Saints—Receive Kind Treatment—On Hoard a Vessel Bound for Tahiti.