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  • Climate of Platte Bridge, 137.
  • Climate" of the country near Fort Bridger, 179, 180.
  • Climate" of Utah Territory, 275.
  • Clothing necessary to the Prairie traveler, 10.
  • Coaches, mail, from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4
  • Coaches, materials of which they are made, 12.
  • Coaches," slow rate of traveling, 5.
  • Coaches," the "Concord coach," 12.
  • Coal found on the banks of the Bear and Weber Rivers, and at Silver Creek, 182.
  • Coal in Nebraska, 141.
  • Coal" in Utah Territory, 281.
  • Coal" near Sulphur Creek, 182.
  • Coal" on the banks of the Platte River, 141.
  • Cold Springs, in Kansas, 18
  • Cold" Springs," squatter life at, 19.
  • Cold" Springs," Station, 487.
  • Cold-Water Ranch, 49.
  • Colorado, Rio, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Columbia River, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Comanche Indians, the, 60, note.
  • Comanche" Indians," their lodges, 86.
  • Compass, the prairie, 48.
  • "Concord coach," description of the, 12.
  • Conference, description of a Mormon, 302–9.
  • Constitution of the State of Deserét, 289, note.
  • Cookery, dirty, of Indian squaws, 80.
  • Cookery," bill, in the prairies, 84.
  • Coon's Kanyon, 194.
  • Copperas Springs, 181.
  • Corporation of Great Salt Lake City, 315.
  • Corrals, mode of forming, 76.
  • Corrill, John, his work on Mormonism, 205, note.
  • Cotton grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
  • Cotton-weed, the, 64.
  • Cotton-wood Creek, 30.
  • Cotton-wood" Kanyon, Great, 343.
  • Cotton-wood" Kanyon," Great," celebration of Mormon Independence Day at, 340, note.
  • Cotton-wood Kanyon, Great, timber of, 284, 285.
  • Cotton-wood" Kanyon," Great," visit to, 346.
  • Cotton-wood" Lake, Great, 347.
  • Cotton-wood" Station, in Nebraska, 30, 49.
  • Cotton-wood" tree, the, or Alamo, 32.
  • Cotton-wood" tree," its uses, 32.
  • Cougar, the, or mountain lion, 153, and note.
  • Council Bluffs, the natural crossing of the Missouri, 71, note.
  • Council Hall of the Seventies in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
  • Council, the High, of the Mormons, 401.
  • Counties, list of, of Utah Territory, 291–3.
  • Coureurs des bois, or unlicensed peddlers, 81.
  • Court-house Ridge, the, 72.
  • Court-house" Ridge," description of it, 72.
  • Court-house" in Great Salt Lake City, 417.
  • Court-house" interesting case tried in the, 417.
  • Cox, Daniel, his idea of a water communication between the Missouri and the Columbia Rivers, 162, 163, note.
  • Coyotes, or jackals of the Western World, 64.
  • Coyotes," at Rocky-Bridge Station, 160, 161.
  • Coyotes," in Echo Kanyon, 188
  • Coyotes," near Black's Fork, 176.
  • Cree Indians, their habitat, 100,
  • Creek, Ash-Hollow, 70.
  • Creek," Battle, 447.
  • Creek," Bauchmin's, 189, 190,
  • Creek," Box-Elder, 136,
  • Creek," Cedar, 334.
  • Creek," Cotton-wood, 30.
  • Creek," Deer, 138.
  • Creek," Dry, 483.
  • Creek," Egan's, 183.
  • Creek," Grasshopper, 21.
  • Creek," Horse, 79.
  • Creek," Horseshoe, 163.
  • Creek," Kanyon, Big, 191.
  • Creek," Kanyon," East, 189.
  • Creek," Kiowa, Little, 79.
  • Creek," La Bonté, 135.
  • Creek," Meadow, 451.
  • Creek," Mill, 195.
  • Creek," Muddy, Little, 140.
  • Creek," Nemehaw, Big, 21.
  • Creek," Omaha, or Little Punkin, 71.
  • Creek," Pacific, 166.
  • Creek," Plum, 48.
  • Creek," Quaking Asp, 161.
  • Creek," Sandy, 71.
  • Creek," Sandy," Big, 167.
  • Creek," Sandy," Little, 167.
  • Creek," Sheawit, 482.
  • Creek," Shell, 465, 466.
  • Creek," Silver, 182.
  • Creek," Smith's, 486.
  • Creek," Snow, 140.
  • Creek," Strawberry, 161.
  • Creek," Sulphur, 181.
  • Creek," Thirty-two-mile, 38,
  • Creek," Turkey, 30.
  • Creek," Vermilion, 27.
  • Creek," Walnut, 21.
  • Creek," Willow, 161, 461.
  • Creek," Yellow, 183.
  • Creeks, or "criks" in America, 21.
  • Crickets (Anabrus simplex?), scourge of, in Utah Territory, 284.
  • Crops in Great Salt Lake Valley, 201.
  • Crosby, Judge, 450.
  • Cumming, Hon. A., governor of Great Salt Lake City, 215.
  • Cumming, Hon. A., his impartial discharge of his duties, 216.
  • Curriculum of the Prairie Indians, 107.
  • Cursing and swearing in America, 14,
  • Cynomys Ludovicianus, or prairie-dog, 66.
  • Davies, Elder John, his Mormon works, 214, note.
  • Dakotahs. See Sioux.
  • Dakotah" meaning of the name, 95.
  • Dana, Lieutenant, compagnon de voyage, 8.
  • Dancing, Mormon fondness for, 230.
  • Danite band, account of the, 59.
  • Dark Valley, 60.
  • Davis, Hon. Jefferson, his estimate of the cost of a railway from the Mississippi to the Pacific, 3, note.
  • Dayton, Lysander, the Mormon Bishop, and his wives, 448.
  • Dead, Indian mode of burial of the, 122.
  • Deep-Creek Kanyon, 462.
  • Deep" Creek" Station, 463.
  • Deep" Creek" Valley, 463.
  • Deer Creek, 138.
  • Deer" Creek," establishment at, 139.
  • Deer" kinds of, found in the regions east of the Rocky Mountains, 63.
  • Delaware Indians, account of the, 37.
  • Delaware" Indians," their lodges, 86.
  • Denmark Ward in Great Salt Lake City, 198.
  • Denver City, lawless violence of, 288,
  • Deserét, agricultural society of, 285.
  • Deserét," alphabet, the, 420.
  • Deserét," Store, in Great Salt Lake City, 249.
  • Deserét," the land of the honey-bee, 16),
  • "Deserét News," account of the, 255.
  • Desert, fertility of its eastern and western frontiers, 7.
  • Desert," from Fort Kearney to the base of the Rocky Mountains, 6.
  • Desert mostly uninhabited, T.
  • Desert" the First, 167.
  • Desert" the Great, of Utah Territory, 455, 458.
  • Des Moines River, Indians west of the, 96.
  • Devil's Backbone, the, 147.
  • Devil's" darning-needle, or dragon fiy, 60.
  • Devil's" Gate, the celebrated kanyon of the, 151.
  • Devil's" Hole, the, 458, 459.
  • Devil's" Lake, Indians of, 97.
  • Devil's" Post-office, the, 154,
  • Diamond Springs, 60, 480.
  • Diamond" Springs," tragedy at, 60.
  • Diseases of Utah Territory, 278.