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[Illustration: J. D. Gillilan (signature)]




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                                                   107
  AMONG THE HILLS                                                  117
      The Mother Deer                                              119
      The Shepherd                                                 121
      The Feathered Drummer                                        122
  MORMONDOM                                                        123
