CHAPTER III.

Salt Lake City and Valley.—Salt Lake; climate and bathing.
—Remained a month.—Then made atrip of amonth on the plains.
Caught in a blizzard.—Sixty-two frozen mules for breakfast, Oct.
14th.—A rough tramp in the snow, 180 miles back to Salt Lake,
—Dreaming of home.—<As to the hardships of trains snow-bound
in the mountains. - Work for a Mormon dignitary.—The “Mighty
Host of Zion.”—How they whipped Johnson’s U.S. Army in 1861,
etc., etc. —Mountain Meadow massacre, ete., ete.—Leave Salt Lake
on horse-back for St. George, 350 miles south; takes a month.
—Mormon farms and villages; their system of settlement, etc. —
Climate, soil, mountains, ete.—A month in St. George as “Dodge’s
Clerk.”—On an Indian raid. — Made a trip to the extreme southern
settlements. —What for?—Cotton country.—Mountain of rock
salt.—A true, comprehensive description of the Mormons; how
they live and deal with each other and with Gentiles; their
religion and government; as they really are in practice; their

virtues, crimes and danger.
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