One Side By Himself
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One Side By Himself

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One Side By Himself

About this book

"What an astonishing life and what a remarkable biography. Lewis Barney's sojourn on the hard edge of the American frontier is a forgotten epic. Not only does this book tell of an amazing personal odyssey from his birth in upstate New York in 1808 to his death in Mancos, Colorado, in 1894, but Barney's tale represents a living evocation of some of the most significant themes in American history. Frederick Jackson Turner theorized that the frontier shaped our national character, but Lewis Barney's life stands as a testament to the real impact of the westering experience on a man and his family. Ron Barney's detailed biography of Lewis Barney provides a participant's view of Mormonism's first six decades of controversy, hardship, and triumph, viewed from the bottom of the social heap. Despite his wide-ranging experience and endless sacrifices, Lewis Barney was a worker in the Mormon vineyard, not one of the princes of the Kingdom of God whose lives have been so exhaustively celebrated. Barney's lack of status in this complex hierarchy adds tremendously to the value of this study, since so much nineteenth-century LDS biography has ignored the lives of ordinary people to celebrate a surprisingly small elite whose experiences were far different from those of the general Mormon population." —Will Bagley, editor of the series Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier and editor of The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846-1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Maps
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. 1 The Barneys on America’s Frontier: The Holland Land Purchase, 1800–1811
  7. 2 The Silhouette of Ohio: Barneys in America’s Interior, 1811–1826
  8. 3 These Fertile Prairies: Yankees on the Illinois Frontier, 1826–1832
  9. 4 On My Farm: Lewis Barney Comes of Age, 1833–1839
  10. 5 An Honest, Industrious People: Conversion to Mormonism, 1839–1840
  11. 6 Unaccustomed to City Life: Nauvoo and the Hancock Prairie, 1841–1844
  12. 7 A Gloom over the Country: The Final Years in Hancock County, 1844–1846
  13. 8 Midst Sighs and Lamentations: Iowa—Prelude to the West, 1846
  14. 9 A Story Makes a People: The Exodus to Zion, 1847
  15. 10 A Band of Brethren: The Return to Winter Quarters, 1847
  16. 11 Barney’s Grove: Iowa and the Last Trek to Zion, 1847–1852
  17. 12 We Managed to Live: The Palmyra Plain, 1852–1856
  18. 13 He Would Not Forsake His People: Spanish Fork and the Utah War, 1856–1858
  19. 14 We Left Them Crying: Spanish Fork and Springville, 1858–1861
  20. 15 Busted Up: Utah’s Sanpete and Sevier Valleys, 1861–1865
  21. 16 Beginning to Be Old: The Indian War and the Railway, 1865–1869
  22. 17 A Frontier Village: Monroe, Utah, 1871–1874
  23. 18 A Division with the People: The Monroe United Order of Enoch, 1874–1878
  24. 19 The Salvation of Thy Relatives and Friends: The Last Years in Sevier Valley, 1877–1882
  25. 20 Better Situated: Farther into the Frontier, 1882–1886
  26. 21 If It Takes the Rest of My Life: The Quixotical Family Kingdom, 1886–1894
  27. Barney Family Relationships
  28. Notes
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index