[16] “Ole Ephraim” is the mountain-man’s sobriquet for the grizzly bear.
[17] I have frequently heard this legend from Gentiles, never from Mormons; yet even the Saints own that as early as 1842 visions of the mountains and kanyons, the valley and the lake, were revealed to Mr. Joseph Smith, jun., who declared it privily to the disciples whom he loved. Thus Messrs. O. Pratt and E. Snow, apostles, were enabled to recognize the Promised Land, as, the first of the pioneers, they issued from the ravines of the Wasach. Of course the Gentiles declare that the exodists hit upon the valley by the purest chance. The spot is becoming classical: here Judge and Apostle Phelps preached his “Sermon on the Mount,” which, anti-Mormons say, was a curious contrast to the first discourse so named.
[18] I subjoin one of the promising sort of advertisements:
“Tom Mitchell!!! dispenses comfort to the weary (!), feeds the hungry (!!), and cheers the gloomy (!!!), at his old, well-known stand, thirteen miles east of Fort Des Moines. Don’t pass by me.”
[19] Poole—the celebrated London tailor.
[20] Alluding to one Thos. H. Ferguson, a Gentile; he killed, on Sept. 17th, 1859, in a drunken moment, A. Carpenter, who kept a boot and shoe store. Judge Sinclair, according to the Mormons, was exceedingly anxious that somebody should be sus. per coll., and, although intoxication is usually admitted as a plea in the Western States, he ignored it, and hanged the man on Sunday. Mr. Ferguson was executed in a place behind the city; he appeared costumed in a Robin Hood style, and complained bitterly to the Mormon troops, who were drawn out, that his request to be shot had not been granted.
[21] Copyright, 1890, by Nathaniel P. Langford. Copyright, 1912, by A. C. McClurg & Co.
[22] Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by Sheldon & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress.
[23] Copyright, 1871, 1899, by the American Publishing Company. Copyright, 1899, by Samuel L. Clemens. Copyright, 1913, by Clara Gabrilowitsch.
[24] “The Vigilantes of Montana,” by Prof. Thos. J. Dimsdale.