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| Foreword | p. 9 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 13 |
| Editorial Procedures and Translations | p. 21 |
| Introduction | p. 23 |
| "The Mormonites": The First European Observers, 1830-46 | p. 29 |
| They Complained Bitterly | |
| To See and Speak with a Heresiarch | |
| A Place I Had Wished to See for a Long Time | |
| The Completed Temple Was Arranged as a Barracks | |
| Mr. Young, an Affable and Very Polite Gentleman | |
| "Polygamy is a Sword of Damocles": Overland Travelers in Utah, 1849-55 | p. 47 |
| We Don't Think Polygamy Can Last for Long | |
| I Saw Not a Single Beautiful Woman | |
| More Power Than Any Potentate in the World | |
| "Gathering to Zion": European Converts in Utah | p. 85 |
| The Test Was a Severe One | |
| Oh How Toff He Was | |
| Joyfully We Drove in to Zion | |
| Everyone Flew to Arms | |
| "But Brigham Young is Still Governor": Mormonism's Secular Control, 1859-69 | p. 115 |
| The Heart of Mormon Country | |
| The New Road of Iron Will Destroy this Anomaly | |
| An Enourmous Caravan, Including Some Ladies | |
| "The King of the New Jerusalem": Riding the Rails through Utah, 1869-77 | p. 147 |
| Sovereign of the Desert | |
| He Disapproved When Any Mormon Drank Wine or Beer | |
| Stenhouse Promised to Introduce His Two Wives | |
| Brigham Young Sat on His Sofa Slumped Down | |
| Mr. Stenhouse ... Resolved to "Confine" Us | |
| He Would Convert You Immediately | |
| One of the Most Astonishing Figures of Our Time | |
| "Excursions in My Own Mind": European Fantasy Accounts of the Mormon West | p. 187 |
| Abandon All Hope of Leaving | |
| Polygamy is Common amongst Them | |
| At a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, A Course of Mormon History | |
| They Were Too Tired of the Solitary Life | |
| We Will Not Give Up | |
| Strange Rituals and Polygamy | |
| So Much Fertitlity after the Sterility of the Salt Desert | |
| Let Me Remind You ... I am Infallible | |
| "The Country of Apotheoses": The First European Visitors to Southern Utah | p. 259 |
| Mormons are Communists | |
| Wild, Forsaken Places | |
| A Little Worried the Indians Would Scalp Me | |
| "The Many Scandinavians Who Live in Utah": Northern Literary Lights in the Mormon West | p. 303 |
| The Era of Mormonism is Irrecoverably Over | |
| Mormons Pay for Theatre Tickets with Watermelons | |
| Here Comes Satan! | |
| You Have Seen God's Face | |
| "Bitter, Salt, and Hopeless": The Last Struggle for Statehood, 1878-96 | p. 319 |
| An Undulating Plain Garnished with Sauges en Brousailles | |
| A Lot Can Be Learned from the Mormons | |
| Do Not Believe That the Mormons are Savages | |
| A Variety of Things Are Missing Here | |
| Polygamy | |
| That's What Always Troubles the Gentiles | |
| I Demand to See the Women | |
| "Americans Like All the Others": Accommodation after Statehood, 1896-1930 | p. 343 |
| Christians with Mohammedan Instincts | |
| Such Blind Fanatical Zeal | |
| I Was Lucky Enough to be Able to Gather Many Waldensians | |
| The Mormons Looked Just Like All Other Human Beings | |
| I Did Raise the Subject of Polygamy | |
| Afterword. "Hunters of the Picturesque": Utah in the Twenty-first Century | p. 377 |
| Bibliography | p. 385 |
| Index | p. 409 |
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