Contents -- Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Dramatis Personae -- Author's Preface -- I. On Joining the Mormons: Youth to Arrival in Salt Lake Valley, September 1848 -- 1. Youth: Memoirs, 1802 to September 1825 -- 2. Independent Young Woman: Memoirs, September 1825 to April 1831 -- 3. The Years at Ripley, New York: Memoirs, April 1831 to June 1838 -- 4. From Ripley, New York, to Nauvoo, Illinois: Memoirs, October 1838 to Fall 1841 -- 5. Nauvoo, Missionary Widow: Memoirs, Fall 1841 to Spring 1846 -- 6. In the Exodus from Nauvoo to Salt Lake Valley: Memoirs, Spring 1846 to September 1848 -- II. On a Mormon Mission to Tahiti: Salt Lake Valley, September 1848 to April 1850 -- The Mission to the Society Islands, April 1850 to July 1852 -- 7. In Salt Lake Valley: Memoirs, September 1848 to April 1850 -- 8. Mission Begun, Salt Lake City to Sacramento: Memoirs, 7 May 1850 to July 1850 -- 9. From San Francisco to Tubuai: Journal A, Part 1, 26 July 1850 to January 1851 -- 10. The Island Tubuai: A Missionary Family I: Journal A, Part 2, January to 18 September 1851 -- 11. The Island Tubuai: A Missionary Family II: Memoirs, 15 September 1851 to 1 February 1852 -- 12. The Islands Tubuai and Tahiti: A Missionary Family III: Memoirs, February 1852 to 6 April 1852 -- 13. Retreat and The Voyage Home: Journal B, Part 1, 15 April 1852 to 4 July 1852 -- III. On Early California: The San Bernardino Experience 1852 to 1857 -- The Break-up at San Bernardino, January 1858 -- 14. San Francisco and San Jose: Journal B, Part 2, 4 July 1852 to 4 December 1852 -- 15. San Bernardino I: Memoirs, December 1852 to April 1856 -- 16. San Bernardino II: Memoirs, 14 April 1856 to 8 February 1857 -- 17. San Bernardino III: Memoirs, February 1857 to January 1858 -- IV. On Pioneer Living in Beaver: Beaver, Utah Territory 1858 to 1880.

18. Fateful Move: San Bernardino to Beaver, Utah: Memoirs, January 1858 to January 1859 -- 19. Settling in at Beaver: Memoirs, January 1859 to July 1860 -- 20. Beaver and a Trip to California: Memoirs, July 1860 to December 1864 -- 21. Beaver and Family: Memoirs, January 1865 to December 1869 -- 22. A Railroad Trip to East Canada: Memoirs, Winter 1870-71 to December 1871 -- 23. A Variety of Activities: Memoirs, December 1871 to December 1875 -- 24. Sunset Years at Home in Beaver: Memoirs, December 1875 to August 1880 -- Sources -- Notes -- Literature Cited -- Index.