Among the Shoshones
- Salt Lake City, UT: Press and Bindery of Skelton Publishing Company, 1910
Salt Lake City, UT: Press and Bindery of Skelton Publishing Company, 1910. Suppressed First Edition. Very good. 222pp. Octavo [21 cm] Green cloth with the title in black on the front board and backstrip. Chief in headdress on the front board in black and yellow. Moderate wear to the boards with minor bumping and rubbing at the corners. Rear endsheet cracked along the hinge. Gentle wear throughout. Suppressed first edition of the beloved story of the life of 'Uncle Nick' and his time in Northern Utah, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. A captivating story of a rugged pioneer and the settlement of the Interior West, this version recounts the story of Wilson's beloved girl, being married off as a polygamous wife of a local LDS leader, while Wilson was sent off on a ruse. According to Flake/Draper: When original edition was in sheets objections were made to the passage from p. 194-222. "When the book was in sheets, ready for binding, objection was made to the passage beginning on page 194. Under pressure I rewrote that part and added 25 pages to the original but had 20 copies bound [actual number may vary but is close to 20] as originally written. These I kept for the members of my family." - Elijah Nicholas Wilson (Journal of Mormon History 33:3 p. 221)
"In about two weeks I received a letter from my mother in which she said that I was about to lose my girl, for she was going in second wife to an old man that stood high in the church. I lost no time in writing the young lady, and the next mail brought my letter back to me. I wrote again and sent them both to her, but they came back. I wrote again, and then the letter came back. I then wrote to the mother and enclosed a letter to the girl, and asked mother to give it to the girl herself. Mother gave it to her, but in a few days it came back. Then Mother told me not to write to the girl anymore, for this man was working very hard to injure me in her sight, and it would do no good for me to write to her anymore." -p. 197. Howes W520. Flake/Draper 9909.
"In about two weeks I received a letter from my mother in which she said that I was about to lose my girl, for she was going in second wife to an old man that stood high in the church. I lost no time in writing the young lady, and the next mail brought my letter back to me. I wrote again and sent them both to her, but they came back. I wrote again, and then the letter came back. I then wrote to the mother and enclosed a letter to the girl, and asked mother to give it to the girl herself. Mother gave it to her, but in a few days it came back. Then Mother told me not to write to the girl anymore, for this man was working very hard to injure me in her sight, and it would do no good for me to write to her anymore." -p. 197. Howes W520. Flake/Draper 9909.