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Title: Trail Tales

Author: James David Gillilan

Release Date: October 24, 2009 [EBook #30320]

Language: English

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TRAIL TALES

BY

JAMES DAVID GILLILAN

THE ABINGDON PRESS

NEW YORK--CINCINNATI

Copyright, 1915, by

JAMES DAVID GILLILAN

DEDICATED AFFECTIONATELY
TO MY MOTHER,
TO MY WIFE;
LIKEWISE TO
THE PREACHERS OF
UTAH MISSION
AND
IDAHO ANNUAL CONFERENCE

CONTENTS

PREFACE 9
GOD'S MINISTER 11
THE WESTERN TRAIL 13
THE LONG TRAIL 19
THE DESERT 31
SAGEBRUSH 39
THE IRON TRAIL 47
A Railroad Saint in Idaho 49
An Unusual Kindness 59
INDIANS OF THE TRAIL 63
Introductory Words 65
Pocatello, the Chief 67
The Babyless Mother 72
Mary Muskrat 76
Bad Ben 79
A Three-Cornered Sermon 82
Three Years After 87
Chief Joseph and His Lost Wallowa 92
The White Man's Book 96
LIGHTS AND SIDELIGHTS 99
THE STAGECOACH