Identifier: polygamyormyster00bead (find matches)
Title: Polygamy; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism, being a full and authentic history of this strange sect from its origin to the present time.
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Beadle, J. H. (John Hanson), 1840-1897.
Subjects: Mormons.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co.
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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adeit necessary for the roads to run east and west. One may gofrom Montana to Arizona, and travel in valleys nearly all theway, seldom crossing anything more than a low divide, butfrom east to west each range must be crossed at certain points,for which cause the old road south of the lake was a perfectzig-zag, selecting the most feasible valleys, avoiding the moun-tains wherever possible, or canyoning up one side and downthe other, diverging great distances from the direct line, andrunning to almost every point of the compass. The rim of the Basin is uncontinuous, formed by variousranges. On the north are the broken chains of the Oregonsystem, from 8,000 to 10,000 feet high, sending out many spursand transverse ridges. On the western border the SierraNevadas average 10,000 feet, and some peaks tower far abovethat altitude. On the south are the lower sub-ranges of theRocky mountains, mere divides, separating the waters of theBasin from those of the Colorado; and on the east is the main
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359 360 polygamy; or, the mysteries Uintah range, known by various names, with several portionsrising to 10,000 feet. Thus the surface configuration of Utahis a great depression in a mountain land, a trough, so to speak,elevated 4,000 or 5,000 feet above sea level; subtended on allsides by mountain ranges 8,000 to 10,000 feet high, and sub-divided by transverse ranges; in the geologic age, an inland sea,in aboriginal times, the retreat of the most abject savages—longa region of misconception and fable—then the chosen home of astrange religion, and but yesterday found to be of use and inter-est to the civilized world. Leaving the mountain ranges whichbound the great basin, there is a general breaking down, so tospeak, towards the interior; few of these ridges present regularslopes, but are formed of acute and angular cappings, superim-posed upon flatter prisons; and frequently after ascending two-thirds from the base, the upper part becomes wall-like and in-surmountable. Of these p

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