Chapter I: Front Matter

Brigham's Wise Counsels.--Joseph Toronto.--Joseph Smith, Seer and Organizer.--Prophecy of August 6, 1842

CHAPTER 7.

A Religious Commonwealth.--General Clark's Degree.--Brigham's Indian Policy.--Its Peaceable Fruits.--The Glory of the Immigrant's First View of the Valley

CHAPTER 8.

Mormon Stalwarts.--A War on the Plains.--Death of Celestia Kimball.--Two Indian Girls Tortured.--Sally's Death.--Ira Eldredge's Dog and the Wolf.--Delicious Rawhide Soup.--Eat Thistles.--The Devastating Crickets.--Delivered Wrought by the Sea Gulls

CHAPTER 9.

My First Mission.--Uncle Brigham's Counsel.--Parley P. Pratt, Teacher and Orator.--My First View of the Ocean.--San Francisco.--Tracting the City.--Scrap With a Hotel Keeper.--Labor as a Cook in the Home of Mr. McLean.--The Man who Murdered Parley P. Pratt

CHAPTER 10.

Sail for the Islands.--At Honolulu T Labor in Tin Shop.--My First Kanaka Meal.--A Home with Kiama.--Attend Native Funeral.--Meet Mr. Emerson.--Three Days Without Food.--Saved by a Donkey.--Lose my Eyesight.--Receive a Glorious Vision

CHAPTER 11.

On Oahu Again.--John Hyde's Apostasy.--I Meet Him in the Presbyterian Church.--At Waiahia

CHAPTER 12.

Hear of Parley P. Pratt's Death.--Buchanan Sends Harney to Utah.--Letter From Brigham Young

CHAPTER 13.

Praise for the Elders.--Efforts to Bring Two Natives to Utah.--Sail for Home.--Description of Steerage.--An Earnest Prayer.--Timidity of the Saints.--Baptize a New Convert at Midnight

CHAPTER 14.

Visit My Cousin.--His Tempting Offer.--Meet the Agents of Mr. Walker, the noted Filibusterer.--Baptize Mrs. Bradford

CHAPTER 15.

Start for a Thirteen-Hundred-Mile Walk.--Become Indian Scout.--Meet Jacob Hamblin, the Indian Peacemaker.--Surrounded by Indians.--Shooting a Dove, Saves our Scalps

CHAPTER 16.

Home Activities.--Counseled not to Study Law.--Called to Uintah and Dixie

CHAPTER 17.

Miss Carmichael's Parting Words.--San Francisco.--Orson Pratt's Prophecy.--Sail for Hawaii.--Delivered from the Hands of a Wicked Man.--Visit Walter M. Gibson.--View Kawaimanu

CHAPTER 18.

Conference at Wailuku.--Return to Honolulu.--Sail for Home.--Man Overboard

CHAPTER 19.

United Order.--Indian Troubles.--Mission to England

CHAPTER 20.

Transferred to the Bristol Conference.--A Remarkable Woman.--My Views of Celestial Marriage

CHAPTER 21.

A Visit to Wales.--Mrs. Simon's Good Work.--A Tribute to Joseph Fielding Smith.--A Letter from my Wife, Albina

CHAPTER 22.

Death of Jehiel McConnell.--A Letter to my Daughter.--Five Thousand Dollar Reward.--Letter from Apostle Joseph F. Smith

CHAPTER 23.

A Letter to my Son.--An Enquirer Answered.--The Sinking of the Euridice, Four Hundred Men Perish.--Letters from Home.--Two Splendid Dreams

CHAPTER 24.

Death of a Lady Apostle Woodruff Baptized in 1840, At Midnight.--Baptize an Aged Backslider.--A Letter from Apostle Wilford Woodruff.--Transferred to the London Conference

CHAPTER 25.

Visit London, the Grandest City in the World.--Meet the Claridge Family, and Leave My Testimony With Them.--Visit Portsmouth and the Home of Nellie Grant Sardys.--Labor With Elder Connelly.--Rake Hay and Receive a Gift from an English Lord

CHAPTER 26.

Conditions at Orderville.--Letter to E. M. Webb, on Politics.--Visit Winchester Cathedral.--Pass Through the Town of London.--Letter from President William Budge.--Mobbed at Albourne

CHAPTER 27.

Goodbye to England.--A Poem.--The Master's Question

CHAPTER 28.

In memory of My Wife, Albina.--"By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them"

CHAPTER 29.

In Memory of My Wife, Lydia

CHAPTER 30.

In Memory of My Wife, Tamar, and Sacred to My Wife Catherine

APPENDIX--STORIES AND RHYMES.

CHAPTER 31.

Twenty-fourth of July Musings Sent to President Joseph F. Smith.--Twenty-fourth of July Toast.--Utah.--Thrilling Eruption of Kilauea

CHAPTER 32.

A Thrilling Experience on the Plains.--The Stampede

CHAPTER 33.

A Squaw Fight

CHAPTER 34.

Crusade Against Plural Marriage

CHAPTER 35.

Salt Lake Valley in 1847.--Utah Pioneers.--A Peaceful Home

CHAPTER 36.

From the Cradle to the Grave.--Lines to Sister M. L.

CHAPTER 37.

The Young Men's Pledge.--Brigham Young's One Hundredth Birthday.--Mary's Birthday.--Some Things that I Remember

Memoirs of John R. Young.