Salt Lake City, Utah.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.PAGE
I.My Early Life[1]
II.My First Introduction to Mormonism[7]
III.The Labour of my Life begun—How the Mormon Missionaries made Converts[16]
IV.Life among the Saints—My New Engagements[25]
V.The First Whisperings of Polygamy[33]
VI.My Husband’s Mission—I am left Alone[41]
VII.Our Mission in Switzerland—Mutterings of the Coming Storm[56]
VIII.The Revelation on “Celestial Marriage”[67]
IX.Missionary Work—Teaching Polygamy[76]
X.Mormonism in England—Preparing to Emigrate[86]
XI.Emigrating to Zion—We Arrive in New York[97]
XII.Life in New York—Conducting a Mormon Paper[103]
XIII.Saintly Pilgrims on the way—the “Divine” Hand-cart Scheme[111]
XIV.A Terrible Story—The Hand-cart Emigrants crossing the Plains[123]
XV.Mary Burton’s Story continued—Terrible ending of the Hand-Cart Scheme[132]
XVI.We forsake all, and set out for Zion—Our Journey across the Plains[145]
XVII.My First Impressions of the City of the Saints[152]
XVIII.Brigham Young at Home—We visit the Prophet and his Wives[163]
XIX.The Wives of Brigham Young—Their History and their Daily Life[168]
XX.Ways and Works of the Saints—The Prophet’s Millinery Bill[179]
XXI.Mysteries of the Endowment House—Fearful Oaths and Secret Ceremonies[189]
XXII.Secrets of Saintly Spouses—A Visit from my Talkative Friend[202]
XXIII.Social Life in Salt Lake City—Ball-rooms, “Wall-flowers,” and Divorce[209]
XXIV.The Origin of “The Reformation”—Extraordinary Doings of the Saints[224]
XXV.The “Reign of Terror” in Utah—The Reformation of the Saints[235]
XXVI.The Mountain Meadows Massacre—“I will Repay, saith the Lord”[247]
XXVII.What Women Suffer in Polygamy—The Story of Mary Burton[259]
XXVIII.How Marriages are made in Utah—A New Wife found for my Husband[268]
XXIX.Taking a Second Wife—The Experience of the First[278]
XXX.Trials—The Second Wife chosen—Shadows of Life[285]
XXXI.Marriage for the Dead—Entering into Polygamy—The New Wife[293]
XXXII.Domestic Arrangements of the Saints—Polygamy from a Woman’s Standpoint[299]
XXXIII.Lights and Shadows of Polygamy—Marriage and Baptism for the Dead[306]
XXXIV.My Daughter becomes the Fourth Wife of Brigham Young’s Son—The Second Endowments[314]
XXXV.Realities of Polygamic Life—Orson Pratt: The Story of his Young English Wife[323]
XXXVI.“Our” Husband’s Fiancée—A Second Wife’s Sorrows—Steps towards Apostasy[331]
XXXVII.Some curious Courtships—Brigham ruins our Fortunes—Belinda Divorces “our” Husband[340]
XXXVIII.Mary Burton—Life’s Journey ended: Rest at Last[347]
XXXIX.My Husband Disfellowshipped—We Apostatize—Brutal Outrage upon my Husband and Myself[357]
XL.Amusing Troubles of my Talkative Friend—Charlotte with the Golden Hair[361]
XLI.After we left the Church—Interesting Facts and Figures—Mormonism and Mormons of to-day[363]
L’Envoi[377]
Postscript[380]
XLIV.Mountain Meadows Massacre—Complete Confession of Bishop John D. Lee[384]
Killing a Rival Prophet[398]

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