accident(s), 158–61, 183–84

Adams, Frank, 243

Affleck, J. T., 154

agriculture, x–xi, 5. See also farming; ranching

in Mexico, 197, 200

work and, 95–103, 105–11, 119, 124–25, 135–36

Agua Prieta, 212

Aiken, George Russell, 154

Albrecht, Clarence Jacob, 73–74, 128–31, 284–85, 305

Albrecht, Evalena Belle, 320

alcohol, 280

alfalfa, x–xi, 99–100

Alldredge, Mariah Delila Van Leuven, 178–79, 196–98, 303

Alldredge, Verl, 178–79

Allen, James, 58

Allen, Mary Ann Weaver Judd, 133–34, 332

Allred, J. Martin, 154–55

almonds, 23

Alrey, Lafayette, 315

Ammon, Chris, 244

Anderson, Carrie S. H., 355

Anderson, Fay Emanuel, 135–36, 355

Anderson, Nels, xvii–xix, 18–20, 238–41

Anderson, Otto L., 179–81

Andrus, James, 222

appendicitis, 183

Arbor Day, 12–13

Arizona Strip, 115–16, 118–20, 165, 253–54

Ashby, Emma Brooks, 127

Ash Creek, 12

Atkin, Tennyson, 56

axe accident, 158

Bahr, Howard M., xxi–xxii

Bailey, Helma C. W., 300

Bailey, John Volney, 300

Bailey, Le Roy J., 306

Ballard, Emma S. B., 355

balloon, 41

Banfield, Edward, 242–43

Barber, Frank, 263–65, 339

barter economy, 7, 46, 97

baseball, 33, 61, 74

Bates, Effie C. H., 330

Bates, Franklin Richard, 332

bathwater, 113

bear(s), 45, 131

Bell, Erma Crawford, 348

Berner Oberlands, 256–57

Berry, Alena W., 345

bishops, 270, 276, 277–78, 286

Bitton, Davis, 3–4

Black, Susan Easton, xvi

Black, William Shirley, Sr., 213–14, 350

Black Hawk War, 218–19, 229

Blake, Harriet L. Wade, 314

blindness, 143

bobcat, 121–22

Booth, Fred, 335

Booth, Lloyd, 40

Booth, Myrza Marie Lang, 40–41, 335

bootlegging, 280

Bowler, George Hebron, 17, 65

Bowler, John, 106

Bowler, Mildred B., 340

Bowler, Nancy E. Holt, 17, 351

Bowler, Rachel, 17

Bowler, Walter “Walt” Wallace, 104–7, 333

Bradley, Martha Sontag, 3

Bradshaw, Irie, 70

Brankam, Cecil V., 301

Brankam, Hazel M., 301

bread, baking, 7

Brigham tea, 153

Bringhurst, Benjamin, 249–50, 353

Bringhurst, Leland H., 344

Bringhurst, Melvina Belle Hammond, 272, 356

Brinkerhoff, Emily R. F., 355

Brinkerhoff, George L., 355

broncos, 146–47

Brooks, George, Jr., 126, 127

Brooks, George, Sr., 126

Brooks, Juanita, xviii, 20, 220–22

Brooks, Mary, 127

Brooks, William, 126–28, 279–80, 312

Brown, Marjorie, 72

Brown, O. P., 203

Brown, Ralph A., 307

Bryner, Irvin, 300

Bryner, Lola Belle DeMille, 14–16, 301

Buchanan, Frederick Stewart, 57

Buchanan, James, 187

Bundy, Abraham, 201

Bundy, Chloe Geneva “Gennie” Van Lowen, 165–67, 194, 202, 304

Bundy, Doretta Marie Iverson, 201–3, 302

Bundy, Edna, 34

Bundy, Ella Anderson, 201

Bundy, Helen, 33–34

Bundy, James, 119–20, 192–94, 201, 304

Bundy, Omer Dick, 211–12, 302

Bundy, Rowena Whitmore, 118–19, 303

Bundy, Roy, 201

Bunker, Rosalie Maurine Walker, 81–82, 328

butter, 116, 132

Cable Mountain, 100, 125

Callahan, Jesse A., 310

Callahan, Ruth E. C., 310

Campbell, Alporta Allen, 179–81, 314

Campbell, Cline, 262

Campbell, George F., 324

Campbell, Milo Golden, 179–80, 262, 313

Campbell, Milo Kay, 179–81

Cannon, David Henry, 58–59

Cannon, Wilford Woodruff, 58–59, 318

Cardon, Ernest W., 309

Cardon, Esther M. Swapp, 310

cars, 34, 37

Carson, Mearl D., 302

Carson, Viola A. J. F., 302

cattle

driving, 30, 131, 132, 139–40

mistaken for Mexican army, 212

raising, 103, 111, 117

cayenne pepper, 153

cement, 115

cemetery, 244–45

chicken(s), 22, 44

childbirth, 166, 167, 179–81, 184. See also midwives

childhood

of Agnes Melinda Leavitt, 35

of Amanda Amelia Hannig Milne, 31

of Blanch Mathis McComb, 12–14

of Bodil Margaret Johnson Pulsipher, 21–22

of Daniel Winder, 7–8

of Della Humphries Hardy, 27–29

of Edward Sirls Terry, 16–17

of Emma Bradshaw Cornelius, 45

of Emma Lucinda Nelson Larson, 6–7

of Erastus Snow Gardner, 29–30

of Evan Erastus Cooper, 38–40

in Great Basin, 2–3

illness during, 154–55

of Inez Heaton Hoyt, 42–43

of Joseph Fielding Hardy, 43–44

of Laura Snow Woodbury, 22–24

of Leah Bundy Jensen, 33–35

of Lola Belle DeMille Bryner, 14–16

of Lora Ann Gifford Christensen, 22

of Lorenza “Renza” Barnum Day, 32–33

of Lorin “Dutch” Abbott Leavitt, 36–37

of Louis Rumell Reber, 31–32

of Lucy Crawford Schiefer, 25–27

of Lucy Jepson Roberts Isom, 30–31

of Marie Black Gubler, 37

of Martha Vilate Hughes Knight, 17–18

of Mary Ann Adams Starr, 20–21

of Mary Hafen Leavitt, 9–10

of Mormon children, 1–2, 45–46

of Myrtle Crawford Winder, 8–9

of Myrza Lang Booth, 40–41

of Nels Anderson, 18–20

of Reed Prisbrey, 44

religious education during, 4

of Rhoda Hafen Leavitt, 37

of Robert Parker Woodbury, 24–25

of Vera Hinton Eager, 10–12

in villages, 293

work during, 23–24, 30, 35, 39–40, 42, 95–96, 107–9, 112–14, 120, 122–24, 128–32, 133–35, 139–40, 142–43, 148

children

sale and adoption of, 220–21, 222–23, 229, 230, 234

statistics on, 292, 293, 295–96

Christensen, Leah B., 353

Christensen, Lora Ann Gifford, 22, 315

Christensen, Vivian G. M., 348

Christmas, 14–15, 18, 33, 35

Church, Wilma, 12

church callings and service, 237–38, 241–42, 269–79, 286–87, 297. See also missionaries and missionary work

civic service, 242–45, 273, 279–88

Civil War, 188

Clark, Owen W., 318

Clark, Sarah E. H., 319

cleaning, 23–24, 41

Cliff, Frederick, 154

clothes, 39–40, 122–23, 228

Clove, Dora Malinda Holt, 62–63, 333

Clove, Neils I. B., 333

Cluff, Clara Sheffer, 347

Cluff, George Leo, 347

Cluff, James Addison, 316

Colonia Dublán, 196–97

Colonia Morales, 197–98, 206–11

community service, 242–45, 273, 279–88

Compton, Todd, 225–26

Connell, Chris, 88

Cooper, Evan Erastus, 38–40, 320

Cornelius, Emma Bradshaw, 45, 281

Cornelius, Emma G., 348

Cornelius, Henry, 281

Cottam, Marjorie Brown, 72

Cottam, Thomas P., 67

cotton and cotton factory, x, 31, 101–2, 108–9

cough, chronic, 175, 277

Covington, Annie Eagar, 206–11, 347

Covington, Isaac Loren, 147–48, 346

cowboys, 254–55

Cox, Artemissia, 213

Cox, Arthur Delano, 316

Cox, Cora Haight, 162–63, 316

Cox, Elizabeth “Libby” Leany, 84–86, 335

Cox, Isaiah, 155, 156

Cox, Leroy Henderson, 283–84

Cox, Lillian Orton, 283–84, 334

Cox, Martha Cragun, 3

Cox, Veda B. Leavitt, 326

Cox, Velda Delle Leavitt, 88–91

Cox, William Malen, 276–77, 306

coyotes, 11, 130, 134

Cragun, Edna, 86

Crane, Eliza C. C., 323

Crawford, Heber, 8

Crawford, Merle, 8

Crawford, Newell K., 318

Crawford, Norman, 8

Crawford, Sarah I. W., 318

Crawford, William Robinson, 9

Crosby, Louise S. L., 309

Crossman, E. T., 249

croup, 178–79

Culture Clash and Accommodation: Public Schooling in Salt Lake City, 1890–1994 (Buchanan), 57

Cumming, Alfred, 188

Curley, Linda Reese, 231

Dallen, Zesta S., 343

Dalley, Minnie Hulet, 356

Dalley, Otto Pidding, 356

dances, 17, 18, 25, 27, 33, 37

Davis, Edward A., 348

Davis, Inez G. D. L., 306

Davis, LeRoy Elmer, 306

Davis, Ruth D. P., 337

Davis, Samuel Frei, 346

Davis, Temperence Mason, 337

Day, Elizabeth Delilah, 305

Day, Lorenza “Renza” Barnum, 32–33, 332

deacons, 254–55

debate, 56

Derr, Jill Mulvay, 155–56

Desert Saints (Anderson), xviii–xix

Deuel, Mildred Prince, 338

‘D’ hill, 13

Díaz, Porfirio, 191–92, 195

Dickinson, Elizabeth B. B., 338

Dimick, Bertha M. H., 349

diphtheria, 155

Dixie

agriculture in, x–xi

conditions and advancements in, ix–x

conditions between 1900 and 1950, xii–xv

employment in, 5–6

and Mormon village system, xvi–xxiv

ranching in, 5

settlement of, xi–xii

towns of, 4–5

Dixie Academy, 51

Dixie College, xiii, 55–57, 58

Dixie High School, 85–86

Dixie molasses/sorghum, 106–7

Dixie Pioneers, x

dried fruit, 98, 105–6, 107, 113

Drochy, Margaret M., 350

Duell, Edwin L., 323

Duell, Ida Adams, 323

Duffin, Stanley, 249

dugout, 116

Dutson, Samuel C., 310

Eagar, Emily Jane Lee, 208

Eagar, Thomas, 198–201, 305

Eager, Vera Hinton, 10–12, 70–71, 305

Earl, Kenneth, 36

Earley, Lehi F., 322

Easter, 41

Edmondson, Hugh, 145–46

Edmunds-Tucker Act (1882), 188, 190

education, ix–x, xii–xiii, 294–95. See also school(s)

of Alvin Hall, 63

of Andrew Karl Larson, 54–57

of Clarence Jacob Albrecht, 73–74

of Dora Malinda Holt Clove, 62–63

of Elmer Rodney Gibson, 68–69

of Fern McArthur Hafen, 71–72

of Florence McArthur Leavitt, 67–68

of Frederick Cross Hoyt, 121

of George Wilson McConkie, 75–76

of Irma Slack Jackson, 79

of Isabelle Leavitt Jones, 65–66

of Joseph Hills Johnson, Jr., 69–70

of Joseph Woodruff Holt, 78

of Leland Taylor, 77–78

of Lemuel Glen Leavitt, 66–67

of Leslie “Les” Stratton, 61

of Mary Amanda DeFriez Williams, 72–73

of Myrza Lang Booth, 40

of Nathan Brindle Jones, 76–77

of Nels Anderson, 240–41

religious, 4

of Rhoda Hafen Leavitt, 79–80

of Rosalie Maurine Walker Bunker, 81–82

teachers, 82–86

of Theresa Cannon Huntsman, 61–62

Velda Delle Leavitt Cox and, 88–91

of Vera Hinton Eager, 70–71

of Verda Bowler Peterson, 60–61

of Victoria Sigridur Tobiason Winsor, 63–65

Victor Iverson and, 86–88

of Wilford Woodruff Cannon, 59

of William “Bill” Charles Pulsipher, 80–81

of William Brooks, 126, 127

Edwards, Morgan, 70

eggs, 25–26

electricity, 23

emigration, 104

Empey, Norma Bringhurst, 107–8, 232, 334

Ence, Mata Gubler, 271–72, 350

Engelstadt, Clarence M., 343

Engelstead, Homer Y., 342

engine room, 143–45

Englestead, Clarence, 250

Englestead, Homer Young, 250–51

Englestead, LaVerna T., 343

Enterprise Reservoir, 244

ephedra, 153

epidemics, 154–55

Erickson, Karolina E. G., 323

Escalante, Utah, xix–xx

Esplin, Charles, 8

Esplin, Henry, 7

Esplin, Homer, 8

“Everyday Life in Utah’s Elementary Schools, 1847–1870” (Allen), 58

eye injury, 28–29

family home evening, 27

Fancher party, 219–20

farming, 5, 7–8, 142–43. See also ranching

Fife, Lodicia E. T. W. A., 320

Fife, Wilford Root, 320

figs, 107

fireplace, as center of life, 15–16

Fish, Jessie Lewis, 354

Fish, Lucile C., 353

fishing, 202

Fitzpatrick, Albert E., 300

Flanigan, David, 100

flooding, 26–27, 31–32, 97, 100, 142, 207–8

flu, 13, 156–58, 162, 250, 285

Flynn, Riley, 352

Flynn, Vera H., 353

food shortages, 155–56, 206

foot, twisted, 172–73

Ford Model T, 34, 37

Forshee, George, 246

Forsyth, Neil Snow, 328

Forsyth, Ruth S. R., 329

“forting up,” 218–19

Fowler, Catherine S., 222–23

Fowler, Don D., 222–23

Freeman, Ruth Olsen, 332

Frehner, Dorothy E. A., 351

Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Missionary, A (Compton), 225–26

frozen hands, 173–74

fruit

dried, 98, 105–6, 107, 113

figs, 107

grapes, x

melons, 43–44, 200

peaches, 10, 105–6, 113

peddling, 124–25

pomegranates, 183

raising, 98–99

Fullerton, Isabelle Dean, 315

fundraising, 278–79

Gardner, Erastus Snow, 29–30, 131, 319

Gardner, Hazel O. M., 319

gas, 146

Geoul, Mary Espe, 322

Gerlach, Emilie E., 301

Gibson, Elmer Rodney, 68–69, 352

Gibson, Jessie Helen Jennings, 164–65, 316

Gifford, Althea G., 317

Gifford, Cyris “Cy,” 345

Gifford, Fannie C., 315

Gifford, Ina Bundy, 342

Gifford, Samuel Kendall, 125–26, 317

Gifford, Verna Mae Isom, 156–58, 307

Giles, Bessie J. Crane, 350

Giles, Claude, 350

Graham, Ella Banks, 336

Grand Gulch Mine, 119

Grant, Heber J., 114

grapes, x

Gray, Laura Stucki, 272–73, 341

Gray, Matthew “Matt,” 273, 340

grazing, 96–97, 120

Great Depression, 141

Greenhaugh, Agnes F., 319

Grimshaw, Franklin Hunter, 356

Gubler, Harmon, Jr., 155, 255–57, 322

Gubler, Marie Blake, 37, 334

Gubler, Mary A., 160

Gunnison, John William, xxii

gypsum camp, 89–91

Hafen, Albert Luther, 37

Hafen, Fern McArthur, 71–72, 313

Hafen, Guy, 72–73

Haight, Isaac, 220

Haight, Lillian Bell, 162–63

Haight, Mary A. D. P., 344

Haight, Orson, 344

Hall, Alvin, 63, 268–69, 281–82, 336

Hall, Charles Merrill, 114–15, 343

Hall, Henry Vernon, 63

Hall, Lafayette, 230–31, 265–67, 341

Hall, Mary Bertha Wood, 265, 341

Hall, Rob, 111

Hamblin, Albert, 222

Hamblin, Jacob, xvii, 218, 219, 223, 225–27

hands, frozen, 173–74

Hardy, Alvin Carl, 158–61, 315

Hardy, Ardice Bunker, 327

Hardy, Della Humphries, 27–29, 122–24, 317

Hardy, Joseph Fielding, 43–44, 267–68, 327

Hardy, Sarah Agnes, 299

Harmon, Frank, 246

Harris, Earl Tolton, 252–53, 313

Hartley, William G., 2

Haslam, Ethel B., 344

Haslam, Joseph Aurelius, 181, 230

Haslem, Josiah A., 343

Hasselman, Marie, 261

Hatch, Opal, 275

Hawkins, Mattie L. G., 328

hay, 135–36

health, sickness, and injuries, 151–56, 184

of Alporta Allen Campbell, 180–81

of Alvin Carl Hardy, 158–61

Anna Crawford Isom on, 182

appendicitis, 183

of Bundy family, 193

of Chloe Geneva “Gennie” Van Lowen Bundy, 165–67

of Cora Haight Cox, 162–63

croup, 178–79

diphtheria, 155

of Edwin M. Hiatt, 161–62

epidemics, 154–55

flu, 13, 156–58, 162, 250, 285

of George Champ Henrie, 172

of Gwendolyn Bryner Schmutz, 176–77

of Hannah Elizabeth Heaton Roundy, 167–70

herbal medicine, 151–53

of Indians, 222, 228

of Jessie Helen Jennings Gibson, 164–65

of John Matthew Hunt, 175–76

of Joseph Aurelius Haslam, 181

of Joseph Hills Johnson, Jr., 173–74

of Joseph Woodruff Holt, 174–75

of Julia May Williams Wilkinson, 163–64

lack of medical care, xv

of LaVon LeFevre Jones, 182–84

of Lucinda Estella Hall Reidhead Jackson, 167

Mary Jane Morris Holt on midwifery, 177

of Matilda “Mattie” Talbot Kokerhans, 158

of Milo Kay Campbell, 179–81

mumps, 34

muscular dystrophy, 182

of Neucile Boyter Henrie, 172–73

Oren Ruesch’s dealings with, 170–71

pneumonia, 164–65, 172

priesthood blessings and, xv

St. Vitus Dance, 162, 182

scarlet fever, 162, 181

statistics on, 296

typhoid fever, 32, 162–63, 176, 193

of Verl Alldredge, 178–79

of Verna Mae Isom Gifford, 156–58

of Vialate Leavitt Webb, 181–82

whooping cough, 178–79

of William Nutter Hinton, 174

of William Vaughn Jones, 277

Heaton, Clarissa, 168

Henderson, Wallace, 69–70

Henrie, George Champ, 172, 231, 342

Henrie, Neucile Boyter, 172–73, 342

Hepworth, Cecil, 8–9

herbal medicine, 151–53

Hiatt, Edwin M., 161–62, 308

Hiatt, Hannah C. C., 307

Hickman, Joseph, 74

high schools, 50–51, 91

Hinton, Ellen Hortense, 112–13

Hinton, Hortense E. S. B., 346

Hinton, Mary W., 347

Hinton, William Nutter, 174, 200, 347

Hirschi, David, 157

History of Health Care in Utah’s Dixie, 154

History of Woodward School, 99 Years, 1901–2000 (Jones), 57–58

Holt, John Mathew, 332

Holt, Joseph Woodruff, 78, 174–75, 300

Holt, Mary Jane Morris, 177

Holt, Mary Jane Truman, 300

Hopis, 218, 223, 226–27

horse(s)

of Bodil Margaret Johnson Pulsipher, 22

of Clarence Jacob Albrecht, 129

of Erastus Snow Gardner, 30, 131

at Fort Russell, 248

honesty in declined sale of, 271

of John Matthew Hunt, 175–76

of Lucy Crawford Schiefer, 26

of Lydia Amelia Hunt, 124

of Mary Ann Adams Starr, 21

Mary Ann Weaver Judd Allen on coyotes and, 134

taken by Mexicans, 204

of Thomas Eagar, 199

used for work, 95

of William Nutter Hinton, 200

house cleaning, 23–24, 41

Houston, Dee, 79–80

Howard, Ruth P., 316

Hoyt, Frederick Cross, 120–22, 308

Hoyt, Inez Heaton, 42–43, 308

Huffman, Alma A. L., 325

Humphries, Selma E., 312

Hunsaker, Ida, 259

Hunt, Anna G. Bauer, 334

Hunt, George, 36

Hunt, John Matthew, 175–76

Hunt, Lydia Amelia Barlocker, 124–25, 274–75, 333

Hunt, Nephi, 274

Huntsman, Jetta M. L., 329

Huntsman, LaMond W., 332

Huntsman, Orson, 244

Huntsman, Theresa Cannon, 61–62, 280–81, 333

Hurricane Canal, 114–15, 116–18, 244, 281

Hyatt, Gilbert Delos, 271, 353

Impacts of the Mexican Revolution: The Mormon Experience, 1910–1946 (Smith), 191–92

Independence Day, 34, 41

Indian and Pioneer Medicinal Food & Plants (Larsen), 152–53

“Indian Relations on the Mormon Frontier” (Brooks), 220–22

Indian reservations, 221, 224

Indians, 217–27, 233–34

Adams family’s experience with, 21, 233

Bodil Margaret Johnson Pulsipher on, 233

Emma Jarvis Cottam McArthur on, 231–32

establishing relationship with, xii

Frederick Cheney Van Buren on, 229

George Champ Henrie on, 231

George Wilson McConkie on, 228–29

Ianthus Spendlove on, 117

Joseph Aurelius Haslam on, 230

LaFave Jones Leany on, 227–28

Lafayette Hall on, 230–31

Nephi Johnson’s experience with, 21–22

Norma Bringhurst Empy on, 232

religious practices of, xv

and treatment of illness, 151, 153

intermarriage, 222

irrigation, 96, 243, 287–88

Isom, Anna Crawford, 182, 341

Isom, George, 182

Isom, Ida Mary, 157

Isom, Lillian Jones, 355

Isom, Lucy J. Barnum, 349

Isom, Lucy Jepson Roberts, 30–31

Isom, Reeta Vernell, 157

Isom, Samuel, 157

Isom, Wayne, 182

Iverson, Annie Day L., 313

Iverson, Dora, 32

Iverson, Victor, 86–88, 313

Iverson, Walter H., 313

Ivins, Anthony W., 188–89, 190, 196, 244

I Was Called to Dixie (Larson), 51, 98–99

Jackson, Harvey A., 335

Jackson, Ida May L., 320

Jackson, Irma Slack, 79, 335

Jackson, Lucinda Estella Hall Reidhead, 167, 336

Jaensch, Johanna H. S., 342

Japan, 262

Jarvis, Zora Smith, 319

Jennings, Georganna B., 304

Jennings, Julian, 138

Jennings, Leon, 136–37

Jennings, Lloyd Berdell, 136–37, 303

Jensen, Abigail Christina Abbott, 195

Jensen, John, 195, 324

Jensen, John Christian, 195

Jensen, Leah Bundy, 33–35, 139–40, 326

Jensen, Nellie F. Eagar, 309

Jensen, Vida P. Curry, 347

Jepson, James Anthony, 31, 244

Johansen, Ardath V. R., 323

Johansen, Mons N., 322

Johnson, Elizabeth A., 354

Johnson, Irene L. P. C., 310

Johnson, Joseph Hills, Jr., 69–70, 132–33, 173–74, 302

Johnson, Lena R. N., 307

Johnson, Myrtle I. M., 302

Johnson, Nephi, 21–22, 220, 233

Jolley, Norah Crawford, 26

Jones, Albert Larsen, 354

Jones, Allene H. Carter, 351

Jones, Eliza C., 331

Jones, Era Lehi Conger, 354

Jones, Heber, 57–58

Jones, Helen Hammond, 330

Jones, Isabelle Leavitt, 65–66, 339

Jones, LaVon LeFevre, 182–84, 331

Jones, Mabel Geneva Robb, 319

Jones, Nathan Brindle, 76–77, 336

Jones, Sondra, 225

Jones, Susanna H. F., 336

Jones, William Moroni, 351

Jones, William Vaughn, 175, 277–78, 339

Jorgensen, Ephraim J., 352

Jorgensen, May L., 351

Judd, Tom, 108

justice of the peace, 282–83

Kane, Thomas, 187–88

Keller, Lillian L., 320

Keller, William Allen, 319

Kemp, Polly, 23

Keyes, Grant Zenis, 251–52, 341

Keyes, Janet Bracken, 270–71, 341

kissing parties, 24–25

Kleinman, David C., 329

Kleinman, Ellen J. A., 329

Knell, Agatha W. M., 306

Knell, Charles Herbert, 128, 306

Knight, Jesse Victor, 349

Knight, Martha Vilate Hughes, 17–18, 349

Knobe, Patrice Eleanor, 343

Kokerhans, Matilda “Mattie”’ Talbot, 158

Kokerhans, Nancy M. T., 337

Kolob Reservoir, 283–84

Korea, 262

Krause, Sylvia A. M. H., 348

Lang, William, 99

Langston, Caroline E. C., 354

Langston, Rulon Anderson, 113–14, 354

Larsen, Emma L. L. N., 309

Larsen, Wesley P., 152–53

Larson, Andrew Karl, 51, 54–57, 98–99

Larson, Dora L. H. R., 322

Larson, Emma Lucina Nelson, 6–7

Larson, John M., Jr., 309

Larson, Katherine Miles, 56

Layton, Stanford, 224–25

Leany, Iola Lamb Tait, 346

Leany, LaFave Jones, 227–28, 334

Leavitt, Agnes Melinda, 35, 326

Leavitt, Cecil, 110

Leavitt, Charity, 135

Leavitt, Cora M., 350

Leavitt, Dudley, 222

Leavitt, Elmer, 325

Leavitt, Ethel, 326

Leavitt, Eunice Leavitt, 349

Leavitt, Evelyn H. L. B., 325

Leavitt, Florence McArthur, 67–68, 340

Leavitt, Ivie J. Cox, 325

Leavitt, Lemuel Glen, 66–67, 109–10, 340

Leavitt, Lorin “Dutch” Abbott, 36–37, 326

Leavitt, Mary Hafen, 9–10, 312

Leavitt, Rhoda Hafen, 37, 79–80, 135, 327

Leavitt, Susan I. B., 339

Leavitt, Vincent Elias, 143, 325

LeBaron, Marie H. S., 304

Lee, Evan Squire, 348

Lee, John D., xvii, 220

Lee, Parley Grant, 337

LeFevre, Daniel J., 338

LeFevre, Jean W., 338

LeFevre, Olive M. N. M, 338

LeFevre, Peter, 338

LeFevre, Reba R., 307

left-handedness, 72

leg, broken, 183–84

Leonard, Glen, xxiii

lightning, 20

Livingston, Emily L., 321

Loutensock, Hyrum W., 345

Loutensock, Myrtle, 347

lumber, 113–14, 125–26

Lund, Brigham James, 127

Mackelprang, Hazel J., 314

Mackley, MaryAnn R. R., 346

Madero, Francisco, 192

Madsen, Susan Arrington, 2–3

mail service, 111, 244

Making Space on the Western Frontier (Reeve), 223–24

Manifesto, 188, 190–91

marriage. See also polygamy

statistics on, 295–96

between whites and Indians, 222

work following, 96

Mathis, Gordon Wallace, 140–42, 303

Mathis Market and Supply Company, 141–42

May, Dean L., xx–xxi

McAllister, Joseph William, 13

McAllister, Wilford, 54

McArthur, Daniel D., 67

McArthur, Emma Jarvis Cottam, 231–32, 340

McArthur, Moroni, 354

McComb, Blanch Mathis, 12–14, 312

McComb, Robert C., 312

McConkie, Andrew Ray, 75

McConkie, George Wilson, 75–76, 228–29, 311

McConkie, Mabel S., 314

McCune, Alice A. P., 347

McFarlane, Ann Chatterly, 221

McGregor, Donald, 154

McGregor Hospital, 154

McIntyre, Robert, 222

McKnight, Martha M. L., 334

McQuaid, Clyde A., 331

McQuaid, Juanita S., 329

medicine, herbal, 151–53

Meeks, Priddy, 153

melons, 43–44, 200

Merrill, Lewis A., 127–28

Mexican colonists, 187–92, 214–15

Alta Rowley Perkins Wilcox, 204–6

Annie Eagar Covington, 206–11

Doretta Marie Iverson Bundy, 201–3

James Bundy, 192–94

John Jensen, 195

Mariah Delila Van Leuven Alldredge, 196–98

Miriam Adelia Cox Wilson Riding, 195–96

Omer Dick Bundy, 211–12

Thomas Eagar, 198–201

William Shirley Black, Sr., 213–14

Mexican Revolution, 191, 198–200, 202–5, 208–14, 215

Mickelson, Eddie, 86

Midgley, Ethel O. A. N. S., 323

midwives, xv, xxii, 152, 161, 166–67, 177, 184. See also childbirth

Miles, Anna, 13

Miles, Charlie, 17

Miles, Helen, 12

Miles, Josephine J., 51

Miles, Katherine, 56

military service, 238–41, 245–53, 285–86, 298

milk, 116, 132

Millen food, 118

Miller, Marius M., 348

mills, 100, 106, 120–21, 125–26, 206–7

Milne, Amanda Amelia Hannig, 31, 108, 321

Milne, Athole Jarvis, 108–9, 321

Milne, George, 109

mining, 5, 109, 119, 181

missionaries and missionary work, 241–42, 287

Alvin Hall, 268–69

among Indians, 218

Charles “Charlie” Richard Sullivan, 253–55

Cline Campbell, 262

Della Elizabeth McCune Steed, 260–62

financial support for, xiv, 237, 241

Frank Barber, 263–65

Glen Wilcox Steed, 257–60

Harmon Gubler, Jr., 255–57

Isaac Ervin Riddle, 278

Joseph Fielding Hardy, 267–68

Lafayette Hall, 265–67

statistics on, 297

Mitchell, Walther, 271

Model T Ford, 34, 37

molasses, 142–43

Monson, Walter P., 259

Moral Basis of a Backward Society, The (Banfield), 242–43

Mormon Colonies in Mexico, The (Romney), 189–90

Mormon colonists of Mexico. See Mexican colonists

Mormons in Mexico (Tullis), 190–91

Mormon tea, 153

Mormon village system, xvi–xxiv, 49–50, 189, 242–43, 293–94

Moss, Harriett W. B. C., 310

Moss, Robert Hafen, 52

Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857), 219–20

mountain rush, 153

Muir, Mabel H., 311

mules, 146–47

mumps, 34

muscular dystrophy, 182

Nauvoo, Illinois, xvi

Navajos, 218, 227, 230–31

Neese, Godfrey Lee, 307

Nelson, Lowry, xix–xx

Nelson, Will, 140–41

Nelson Mercantile Company, 140–41

New Guide to Health (Thomson), 151–52

Newman, Laura H. Ernst, 321

Nielson, Eleanor F. L., 327

Nielson, Lewis Darne, 327

Nisson, Clara R. A., 313

Nisson, Willard, 54, 87

Novell, Gertha B. L., 327

nurses, xv, 152, 154, 156–57, 177. See also midwives

O’Dea, Thomas, xxi

Okelberry, David C., 349

O’Neil, Floyd, 224–25

organ, 27

Orton, Becky, 275

Osborn, Lucy M., 312

overgrazing, 96–97, 120

painting, 147–48

Paiutes, 218, 219–22, 223–24, 230–31

Parris, Beulah M. Hoyt, 347

parties, 24–25, 27, 37

Paul, George William, 311

Paul, Margaret D., 311

peaches, 10, 105–6, 113

peas, 201–2

peddling, 97, 124–25, 133–34

Pendleton, Laura H., 335

Pendleton, LeGrande C., 334

perfume, 71

persecution, 258

Peterson, Delbert, 146–47

Peterson, Leamo West, 145–47, 324

Peterson, Verda Bowler, 60–61, 325

Petty, Charles, 79

Pfoutz, Delbert W., 336

Pickering, Ernest A., 333

Pifer, Lula D. H., 321

pine-nut shell, inhaled, 163–64

Pioneer Day, 34, 41, 239–40

plowing accident, 161–62

pneumonia, 164–65, 172

polygamy

federal action against, 187–89

impact of, on children, 3

Manifesto ending, 188, 190–91

in Mexico, 191–92, 196, 207, 215

pomegranates, 183

Porter, Sarah Heston, 346

postal service, 111, 244

prayer, 84, 163, 164, 168–69, 179

pregnancies, of Chloe Geneva “Gennie” Van Lowen Bundy, 165–66

Presbyterian schools, 92

priesthood blessings, xv, 152, 160–61, 163, 178, 180–81

Primary bell, 11

Prince, James Lorenzo, 343

Prince, Pratt, 44

Prisbrey, Donevea H., 345

Prisbrey, Reed, 44, 345

private property, 217

prohibition, 280

Pryor, Margaret, 21

public service. See community service

Pulsipher, Bodil Margaret Johnson, 21–22, 233, 351

Pulsipher, Sarah Ann B. H., 346

Pulsipher, William “Bill” Charles, 80–81, 351

Pymm, Bertha Miles, 328

Pymm, Walter, 328

rabbits, 11, 17, 18, 44, 75

raccoons, 32

railroad, 145–46

Ramsay, Ralph, 101

ranching, 29–30, 110–11, 115, 131, 132–33, 207, 217–18. See also farming

Rasmussen, Maggie V. H., 340

Rasmussen, Willis L., 341

rattlesnakes, 12, 32

Reber, Clarence, 112

Reber, Iona B. Barnum, 327

Reber, Ira, 112

Reber, John, 9

Reber, Lora Leavitt, 350

Reber, Lorna Leavitt, 324

Reber, Louis Romell, 324

Reber, Louis Rumell, 31–32

Reber, Myrtle J., 326

Reber, Ralston Virden, 112, 326

Reeve, Artemesia Jeppson, 349

Reeve, W. Paul, 223–24

Reichman, Wilford, 154

religion(s)

and coping with health problems, 152

in Dixie, xiv–xv

in school curriculum, 92

statistics on, 296–97

Remy, Jules, xxii

reservations, 221, 224

Reusch, Matilde “Mattie” Woodbury, 115–16, 301

Reusch, William “Will,” 115–16

Rhodakanaty, Plotino C., 190

Richards, Samuel, 321

Richardson, Edmund, 214

Riddle, Isaac Ervin, 278–79, 310

Riding, Franklin Dobel, 195

Riding, Miriam Adelia Cox Wilson, 195–96, 314

Robinson, Maude H., 344

Robinson, Thomas B., 315

Rockville, 14

Romney, Thomas, 189–90

Roundy, Hannah Elizabeth Heaton, 167–70, 306

Roundy, Nancy L. E., 343

Rowley, Belinda Marden Kendrick, 195–96

Rowley, Claude S., 308

Ruesch, Clair, 171

Ruesch, Jay, 170–71

Ruesch, Lucy Hinton, 299

Ruesch, Oren, 170–71, 299

Ruesch, Susan C., 316

Rupert, Roger, 8

Rushton, Mabel L. Leavitt, 330

Russell, Merrill, 336

Sainsbury, Minnie, 299

St. George

entertainment in, 46

schools and education in, 50, 54

St. George Stake Academy, xiii

St. George Temple, xiv

St. Vitus Dance, 162, 182

Salt Lake City, schools and education in, 57

Salt Lake Temple, 101, 103

Sanchez, Charles G., 301

Sandburg, Chauncey, 70

Santa Clara River, 31–32, 97

Savage, Josephine, 72

sawmills, 100, 120–21, 125–26, 138

scarlet fever, 162, 181

Schiefer, Lucy Crawford, 25–27, 317

Schmutz, Donald, 339

Schmutz, Gwendolyn Bryner, 176–77, 339

school(s), 49–58, 91–92, 190. See also education

scorpion bite, 176–77

Seitz, Delilah, 340

Shafer, Christine Elaine G., 330

sheep, 111, 112, 121–22, 128–31, 136

sheriffs, 279–80

shingle nail, swallowed, 163

ships, painting, 136–37

shoes, 105

Sickel, Rick, 10

sickness. See health, sickness, and injuries

skeleton hole, 11

slavery, 220–21, 222–23, 230–31

Smith, Amelia Deuel, 337

Smith, Bill, 191–92

Smith, George A., Jr., 227

Smith, Janet, 222

Smith, Joseph, xvi, xxiii

Smith, Layton U., 301

Smith, Lehi, 239

Smith, L. L., 240

Smith, Mertice E. D., 301

snakes, 12, 32, 107, 134

Snow, Dilworth, 13

Snow, Edward, 85–86

sorghum, 106–7

South Korea, 262

Spencer, Joseph Earle, xxi–xxiii

Spendlove, Ianthus, 116–18, 355

Spendlove, Pearl C. C., 318

Spilsbury, Freda E. K., 355

Sproul, Andrew, 86

Sproul, Leonard, 54

Staheli, Will, 60

Staheli, Woodrow, 88

Starks, Margaret Lillian, 320

Starr, Mary Ann Adams, 20–21, 233, 344

“Star Spangled Banner, The,” 90

statehood, 50–51

stationary engine room, 143–45

Stauffer, Margaret A. B., 316

Steed, Della Elizabeth McCune, 103–4, 259, 260–62, 317

Steed, Glen Wilcox, 257–60, 262, 317

Steele, John, 244

Stewart, Callie D. E., 309

Stokes, Archie R., 345

Stoney, Charles, 86–87

storytelling contest, 54–55

Stout, Allen Joseph, 353

Stout, Gerald M., 354

Stratton, Adelia M. Wilson, 356

Stratton, Leslie “Les” Lee, 61, 356

Stratton, Nina Venice Spendlove, 273–74, 352

Stratton, Powell Johnson, 142–43, 314

Stratton, William C., 352

suckerfish, 12

sugar cane, 106–7

Sullivan, Charles “Charlie” Richard, 253–55, 330

Sullivan, Ida E. A. Terry, 314

Swapp, Joseph B., 308

swearing, 254–55

Switzerland, 255–57

Talbot, Dorothy J. M. P., 303

Talbot, Maralta D., 337

Talbot, Mary Lucy, 344

Tanner, John Ephraim, 321

Taylor, Elmer, 77

Taylor, John, xix

Taylor, Leland, 77–78, 356

Taylor, Mildred J. G., 323

Taylor Grazing Act (1937), 96–97, 120

Tebbs, Eva M. P., 337

temple, xiv, 101, 103

Terry, Clara M. Woods, 303

Terry, Edward Sirls, 16–17, 312

Terry, Joseph Alma, 18–20, 269–70, 331

Terry, Zera Pulsipher, 78, 81

Thacker, Claude M., 329

Thacker, Hilda G., 329

Thanksgiving, 15

Theobald, Susie Alldredge, 178–79

Thompson, Eliza J. S., 308

Thompson, George C., 307

Thompson, Ina Alvey, 342

Thompson, John Sevy, 110–12, 342

Thomson, Samuel, 151–53

Tidwell, Elmer, 352

Tidwell, Minerva J. S., 352

tithing, 68, 99, 103

Tobiason, Lalla W., 314

Tobiason, Niels N., 313

Tobler, Lia-Viola Stucki, 318

Toquerville, 232

train dance, 16

trapping, 17, 36

trials

of Mormon children, 1–2, 3

types of, xv

Tromley, Minnie Mae, 311

trucking, 145

Truman, Addie Olivia A., 302

Tullis, F. Lamond, 190–91

Turnbeaugh, Matilda, 88

turpentine, 123

typhoid fever, 32, 162–63, 176, 193

Urie, Thomas, 21, 233

Van Buren, Frederick Cheney, 229, 248–49, 330

Van Leuven, Lafayette, 202

Villa, Pancho, 200–201

village system, xvi–xxiv, 49–50, 189, 242–43, 293–94

Virgin River, 11–12, 26–27, 43, 97, 100

voice, new convert regains, 267–68

Wadsworth, Shanna G. H., 328

wagon accident(s), 158–61, 167–70, 171, 174

Waite, Glenn, 282–83, 331

Walker, Ronald, xxii, 224–25

Walker, Zaidee, 57

Wallace, Martin C., 299

war. See military service

washing clothes, 122–23

Washington Fields Canal Company, 126–27

water, 113, 243–44. See also flooding; irrigation

Webb, Arvel T., 339

Webb, Vialate Leavitt, 181–82, 339

wedding(s), 108

wells, 139

West, Elliott, 1–2, 156

West, Mormon movement to, xi–xii

wheat, 106–7, 119, 206

White, Lulu Mae H. H., 331

Whitmore, J. W., 222

Whitney, Doris Eliz Nay, 332

whooping cough, 178–79

Widtsoe, John A., 127–28

Wilcox, Alta Rowley Perkins, 204–6, 308

Wilcox, Claude, 205

Wilkinson, Julia May Williams, 163–64, 302

Williams, Emily M. H., 335

Williams, Mabel C. L., 344

Williams, Mary Amanda DeFriez, 72–73, 353

Willis, Walter M., 324

willows, game with, 36

Wilson, David Johnson, 195–96

Wilson, Frankie, 280

Winder, Daniel, 7–8, 315

Winder, Myrtle Crawford, 8–9, 315

wine, 98–99, 124

Winsor, Anson “Andy” Perry, III, 138–39, 333

Winsor, Effie, 64

Winsor, Frank, 64

Winsor, Victoria Sigridur Tobiason, 63–65, 318

Winstead, Herman, 246

wintergreen, 71

women

church service of, 286–87

scholarship on status of, xxii

work of, 96, 101, 122–24, 135, 148

wood, chopping, 19

Woodard, Amelia Cooper, 275–76

Woodard, Art, 275

Woodbury, Bertha W., 316

Woodbury, Charles, 178

Woodbury, David Orin, 24, 245–48, 299

Woodbury, Frank, 154

Woodbury, George, 146

Woodbury, Grant, 143–45, 317

Woodbury, Harriet A. F., 345

Woodbury, Joe, 146

Woodbury, Laura Snow, 22–24, 299

Woodbury, Nellie, 79

Woodbury, Robert Parker, 24–25, 83–84, 304

wood chips, 30

Woodruff, Wilford, 59

Woodward, Amelia C., 338

Woodward, Hugh, 55

Woodward School, 50–51, 57–58

work, 95–103, 148

Anson “Andy” Perry Winsor, III on, 138–39

Athole Jarvis Milne on, 108–9

Charles Herbert Knell on, 128

Charles Merrill Hall on, 114–15

during childhood, 23–24, 30, 35, 39–40, 42, 95–96, 107–9, 112–14, 120, 122–24, 128–32, 133–35, 139–40, 142–43, 148

Clarence Jacob Albrecht on, 128–31

Della Elizabeth McCune Steed on, 103–4

Della Humphries Hardy on, 122–24

Ellen Hortense Hinton on, 112–13

Erastus Snow Gardner on, 131

Fay Emanuel Anderson on, 135–36

Frederick Cross Hoyt on, 120–22

Gordon Wallace Mathis on, 140–42

Grant Woodbury on, 143–45

Ianthus Spendlove on, 116–18

Isaac Loren Covington on, 147–48

James Bundy on, 119–20, 194

John Sevy Thompson on, 110–12

Joseph Hills Johnson, Jr. on, 132–33

Leah Bundy Jensen on, 139–40

Leamo West Peterson on, 145–47

Lemuel Glen Leavitt on, 109–10

Lloyd Berdell Jennings on, 136–37

Lydia Amelia Barlocker Hunt on, 124–25

Mary Ann Weaver Judd Allen on, 133–34

Matilde “Mattie” Woodbury Reusch on, 115–16

Norma Bringhurst Empy on, 107–8

Powell Johnson Stratton on, 142–43

Ralston Virden Reber on, 112

Rhoda Hafen Leavitt on, 135

Rowena Whitmore Bundy on, 118–19

Rulon Anderson Langston on, 113–14

Samuel Kendall Gifford on, 125–26

Vincent Elias Leavitt on, 143

Walter “Walt” Wallace Bowler on, 104–7

William Brooks on, 126–28

Works Projects Administration (WPA), 145, 147

World War I, xvii, 19, 245–53, 285–86

Worthen, Annie, 24

Worthen, George, 24

Worthen, Leonora Woodbury, 24

Worthen, Lorna P., 305

Worthen, Minerva, 275

Worthen, Vernon, 24, 82–83, 305

wrists, broken, 171

Wulfenstein, Ann G., 307

Young, Brigham

favors herbal doctors, 152

funds cotton factory, 101–2

and Indian relations, 219, 220–21, 222, 225, 230

and Mormon village system, xvi–xvii, xxiii

Young, Levi Edgar, 255–56

Zion National Park, 56, 113–14, 233

Zohner, John Henry, 322