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Identifier: mormonsettlement00byumccl (find matches)
Title: Mormon settlement in Arizona : a record of peaceful conquest of the desert
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: McClintock, James H., 1864-1934
Subjects: Mormons
Publisher: Phoenix, Ariz. : (Printing and binding by the Manufacturing Stationers Inc.)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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EARLY MISSIONARIES AMONG THE INDIANS 1—Andrew S. Gibbons3—James Pearce 2—Frederick Hamblin4—Samuel N. Adair
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the farther end. Between them and the door were 24 Nava-jos. In the second days council came the critical time.HambHn knew no Navajo and there had to be resort to aPaiute interpreter, a captive, terrified by fear that he toomight be sacrificed if his interpretation proved unpleasant.His digest of a fierce Navajo discussion of an hour was thatthe Indians had concluded all Hambhn had said concerningthe kilHng of the three men was a lie, that he was suspectedof being a party to the kilHng, and, with the exception ofthree of the older Indians, all present had voted for Hamb-lins death. They had distinguished the Smiths as Ameri-cans, but they were to witness the torture of HambUn andthen be sent back to the Colorado on foot. The Navajosreferred especially to HambUns counsel that the tribe crossthe river and trade with the Mormons. Thus they hadlost three good young men, who lay on the northern land forthe wolves to eat. The fourth was produced to show hiswounds and tell how he had travele

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