Showlow Won in a Game of "Seven-Up"; Mountain Communities; Forest Dale on
the Reservation; Tonto Basin's Early Settlement.
Chapter Sixteen
LITTLE COLORADO SETTLEMENTS—Genesis of St. Johns; Land Purchased by
Mormons; Wild Celebration of St. John's Day; Disputes Over Land Titles;
Irrigation Difficulties and Disaster; Meager Rations at Concho;
Springerville and Eagar; A Land of Beaver and Bear; Altitudinous
Agriculture at Alpine; In Western New Mexico; New Mexican Locations.
Chapter Seventeen
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS—Nature and Man Both Were Difficult; Railroad Work
Brought Bread; Burden of a Railroad Land Grant; Little Trouble with
Indians; Church Administrative Features.
Chapter Eighteen
EXTENSION TOWARD MEXICO—Dan W. Jones' Great Exploring Trip; The
Pratt-Stewart-Trejo Expedition; Start of the Lehi Community; Plat of
Lehi; Transformation Wrought at Camp Utah; Departure of the Merrill
Party; Lehi's Later Development.
Chapter Nineteen
THE PLANTING OF MESA—Transformation of a Desert Plain; Use of a
Prehistoric Canal; Moving Upon the Mesa Townsite; An Irrigation Clash
That Did Not Come; Mesa's Civic Administration; Foundation of Alma;
Highways Into the Mountains; Hayden's Ferry, Latterly Tempe; Organization
of the Maricopa Stake; A Great Temple to Rise in Mesa.
Chapter Twenty
FIRST FAMILIES OF ARIZONA—Pueblo Dwellers of Ancient Times; Map of Prehistoric Canals; Evidences of Well-Developed Culture; Northward Trend of the Ancient People; The Great Reavis Land Grant Fraud.
Chapter Twenty-one
NEAR THE MEXICAN BORDER—Location on the San Pedro River; Malaria
Overcomes a Community; On the Route of the Mormon Battalion; Chronicles
of a Quiet Neighborhood; Looking Toward Homes in Mexico; Arizona's First
Artesian Well; Development of a Market at Tombstone.
Chapter Twenty-two
ON THE UPPER GILA—Ancient Dwellers and Military Travelers; Early Days
Around Safford; Map of Southeastern Arizona; Mormon Location at
Smithville; A Second Party Locates at Graham; Vicissitudes of Pioneering;
Gila Community of the Faith; Considering the Lamanites; The Hostile
Chiricahuas; Murders by Indian Raiders; Outlawry Along the Gila; A Gray
Highway of Danger.
Chapter Twenty-three
CIVIC AND CHURCH FEATURES—Troublesome River Conditions; Basic Law in a
Mormon Community; Layton, Soldier and Pioneer; A New Leader on the Gila;
Church Academies of Learning.
Chapter Twenty-four
MOVEMENT INTO MEXICO—Looking Over the Land; Colonization in Chihuahua;
Prosperity in an Alien Land; Abandonment of the Mountain Colonies; Sad
Days for the Sonora Colonists; Congressional Inquiry; Repopulation of the
Mexican Colonies.
Chapter Twenty-five
MODERN DEVELOPMENT—Oases Have Grown in the Desert; Prosperity Has
Succeeded Privation.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PLACE NAMES OF THE SOUTHWEST
CHRONOLOGY
TRAGEDIES OF THE FRONTIER
INDEX
MAP OF ARIZONA MORMON SETTLEMENT
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
"El Vado," Pioneer Gateway into Arizona
Mormon Battalion Officers
Battalion Members at Gold Discovery in California
Battalion Members who Returned to Arizona
Battalion Members who Returned to Arizona
Battalion Members who Returned to Arizona
The Mormon Battalion Monument
Old Spanish Pueblo of Tubac
Jacob Hamblin, "Apostle to the Lamanites"
The Church Presidents
Lieutenant Ives' Steamboat on the Colorado in 1858
Ammon M. Tenney, Pioneer Scout of the Southwest
Early Missionaries Among the Indians
Moen Copie, First Headquarters of Missionaries to the Moquis
Pipe Springs or Windsor Castle
Moccasin Springs on Road to the Paria
In the Kaibab Forest, near the Home of the Shivwits Indians
A Fredonia Street Scene
Walpi, One of the Hopi (Moqui) Villages
Warren M. Johnson's House at Paria Ferry
Crossing of the Colorado at the Paria Ferry
Brigham Young and Party at Mouth of Virgin in 1870
Baptism of the Tribe of Shivwits Indians
Founders of the Colorado River Ferries
Crossing the Colorado River at Scanlon's Ferry
Crossing the Little Colorado River with Ox Teams
Old Fort at Brigham City
Woodruff Dam, After One of the Frequent Washouts
First Permanent Dam at St. Joseph
Colorado Ferry and Ranch at the Mouth of the Paria (G.W. James)
Lee Cabin at Moen Avi (Photo by Dr. Geo. Wharton James)
Moen Copie Woolen Mill
Grand Falls on the Little Colorado
Old Fort Moroni with its Stockade
Fort Moroni in Later Years
Erastus Snow, Who Had Charge of Arizona Colonization
Anthony W. Ivins
Joseph W. McMurrin
Joseph Fish, an Arizona Historian
Joseph H. Richards of St. Joseph
St. Joseph Pioneers and Historian Andrew Jenson
Shumway and the Old Mill on Silver Creek
First Mormon School, Church