The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

· 1890

Texts printed in italics, bold face and small capitals have been transcribed _between underscores_, =between equal signs= and as ALL CAPITALS respectively. Superscript texts have been transcribed as ^{text}. “MONTESINOS.--America is in more danger from religious fanaticism. The government there not thinking it necessary to provide religious instruction for the people in any of the new states, the prevalence of superstition, and that, perhaps, in some wild and terrible shape, may be looked for as one likely consequence of this great and portentous omission. An Old Man of the Mountain might find dupes and followers as readily as the All-friend Jemima; and the next Aaron Burr who seeks to carv…

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