371 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, plan ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-357) and index.
Summary
"This manuscript reconstructs and interprets the life of "Sally," an Indian woman who was captured and enslaved in Utah in 1847. Her captors sold her to a settler who had just arrived in the Salt Lake Valley and she ended up in his father-in-law's house. Sally served as the longtime servant and cook in Brigham Young's household, living and working in the Lion House and Beehive House for over twenty years. Kerns has drawn on a broad range of ethnographic, linguistic, archival, and other documentary evidence from primary sources to present the life of this Native woman"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: I. MOUNTAINS AND SKY -- 1. The Trade -- 2. The Native Wild -- 3. Forts -- II. THE HEART OF CIVILIZATION -- 4. The City -- 5. Plagues -- 6. The Mansions -- 7. The Kitchen -- 8. Resistance -- 9. Reports -- III. EXILES -- 10. The Civilizing Mission -- 11. The Village -- 12. The Telling.
