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INDEX.
- Bissonette, M., the Creole, 139.
- Blackfeet, or Sisahapa Indians, 98.
- Blackfeet," sign of the tribe of, 124.
- Blackfeet," their friendliness to whites, 165.
- Blackfeet," their lodges, 86.
- Black Hills, the, 91.
- Black" Hills," the, animals to which they afford shelter, 142.
- Black Hills, geography of the, 134.
- Black Rock, near Great Salt Lake, 324,
- Black" Rock," view from the, 330.
- Black's Fork River, 174, 176.
- Black's" Fork" vegetation of, 177, 178.
- Bloomer dress, 91, 92.
- Blue River, Big, 29.
- Blue" River," Little, 38.
- Blue" River," Little," fish of the, 38.
- Blue-Earth River, Indians west of, 96.
- Bluffs on the prairies, 29.
- Bogus, origin of the term, 417, note.
- Bonhomme Island, sand-banks at, 15.
- "Book of Mormon," the. See "Mormon, Book of."
- Books necessary to the Western traveler, 10.
- Books" on Mormonism, list of, 203, note.
- Botany of Utah Territory, 280.
- Boulders, huge natural pile of, Brigham's Peak, 136.
- Boulders," in Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
- Bow and arrow of the North American Indian, 119.
- Bowery, the, in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
- Bowery," visit to the, 258.
- Box-Elder Creek, 136.
- Boys, Indian, 59.
- "Brass, City of," of the Arabs, 78.
- Braves, Indian, 57.
- Bread made in the prairies, 84.
- Bread-root of the Western hunters, 182, note.
- Breakfast in the prairies, 84.
- Brewery, Utah, 332,
- Brick-making at Great Salt Lake City, 344, 345.
- Bridger, Colonel James, the celebrated trapper, 178.
- Bridger," Fort, 178.
- Bridger," Range of the Uinta Hills, 176.
- Bridle and bit used on the prairies, 27.
- Brigham's Kanyon, 194, 235.
- Brigham's" Peak, 136.
- Brigham's" Peak," the driver's story of, 136.
- "British-English" Mormons on the road to Great Salt Lake City, 137.
- Brûlé Sioux Indians, their habitat, 98. See Sioux.
- Brutisch, Giovanni, the Venetian, 485.
- Bugs, bed, 160, note.
- Bugs," other, 160, note.
- Buffalo, absence of the, on the Grand Prairie, 18.
- Buffalo," annual destruction of, 50.
- Buffalo," berry, the, cultivated in Great Salt Lake City, 170, note.
- Buffalo, Britishers and buffalo shooting, 73.
- Buffalo," extinct westward of the Rocky Mountains, 50.
- Buffalo, former and present number of, 50.
- Buffalo," grass, 51.
- Buffalo," herds of, 48.
- Buffalo," Indian mode of hunting it, 51, 52.
- Buffalo," Indian mode of preparing the skins of, 52.
- Buffalo," its habits, 51.
- Buffalo," number of robes purchased by the several companies, 49, note.
- Buffalo, three great families of, 50.
- Buffalo," uses to which it is put, 51, 52.
- Buffalo," wild, as compared with tame meat, 49.
- Bullock, W.T., the Mormon, 419.
- Bunch-grass, 139.
- Bunch-grass," its geographical limits, 139.
- Bunch-grass," proposed acclimatization of, 140.
- Bundling among the North American Indians, 116.
- Bundling" antiquity of the practice, 116, note.
- "Bunk," the, at Lodge-Pole Station, 66.
- Burnt-Thigh Indians, their habitat, 98.
- Butte Station, 468.
- Buttes, Red, trading-post of, 146.
- Buttes," meaning of the word, 146, note.
- Butterfield, or American Express, route of the, 3.
- Butterfield, or American Express, its receipts from government, 4
- Cache Cave, 134.
- Cache" Valley, 335.
- Cacti of the American wilderness, 64.
- Cactus, intoxicating, 64, note.
- Calidarium, the Indian, 119.
- California, establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to, 4.
- California, roads from Great Salt Lake City to, 452.
- California," slope and surface of the land of, 8.
- California," time for setting out for, 138.
- Calumet, the, regarded as a sacred instrument, 112.
- Camel corps, proposal for establishing a, for American outpost duty, 46.
- Camp Floyd, description of, 334,
- Camp" Floyd," hatred of the Mormons expressed at, 339.
- Camp Floyd, position of the camp, 446.
- Camp" Floyd," second visit to, 444
- Camp" Floyd," the sick certificate, 342.
- Camp" Floyd," trip to, 331.
- Camp" Scott, near Fort Bridger, 179.
- Canadians, French, settled in the Far West, 152.
- Canis latrans, the, 64.
- Cannibals, how far the North American Indians are, 117.
- Cannon River, Indians west of, 96.
- Card-playing among the North American Indians, 117.
- Carrington, Albert O., the Mormon, 242.
- Carrington," Island, 327.
- Carson City, 494, 496.
- Carson" City," lawless violence of, 288.
- Carson" House Station, 189.
- Carson" Kit, the celebrated guide and Indian interpreter, 178.
- Carson Lake, 274, 491.
- Carson" River, 493.
- Carter, Judge, and his store, 179.
- Caswall, Rev. Henry, his works on Mormonism, 205, note.
- Cattle starved in some regions, 138.
- Cattle" numbers of skeletons seen, 138,
- Cedar Creek, 334.
- Cedar" effect of climate upon the growth of the, 41.
- Cedar" gradually diminishing, 53.
- Cedar" Island, the first, in the Missouri, 41.
- Cedar" the name, as used in the United States, 70, note.
- Ceremony and manners, Indian want of, 118.
- Chamizo, or greasewood, 158.
- Chandless, William, his work on Mormonism, 204, note.
- Cherokees, their present condition, 35.
- Cherokees," their lodges, 86.
- Cheyenne Indians, the, 99.
- Cheyenne" Indians," sign of their tribe, 124.
- Cheyenne" Indians," their chastity, 117.
- Cheyenne" Indians," their lodges, 86.
- Chieftainship among the Indians, 117.
- Children, Indian fondness for, 103.
- Children," Indian, 59.
- Children," of the Mormons, 422–3.
- Children," of the Prophet, 249.
- Chimney Rock, the, 74.
- China-town, Carson River, 496.
- Chinche, or bug, the, 160, note.
- "Chip" fires in the prairies, 43.
- Chipmonk, or Chipmuk, the, 159, note.
- Chippewas. See Ojibwa Indians.
- Choctaw Indians, their lodges, 86.
- Chokop's Pass, 480.
- Chronology of the most important events recorded in the Book of Mormon, 411.
- Chugwater, the, 90.
- Church Butte, geological formation of, 176.
- Churchill, Fort, 493.
- Cities, formation of, in Utah Territory, 291.
- City-Creek Kanyon, 195.
