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- Diseases to which the Indians are liable, 278.
- "Divide," the, between the Green River and Black's Fork, 174.
- "Divide," the, between the Little Blue and Platte Rivers, 38.
- "Divide," the, between the Platte and Sweet-water Rivers, its sterility, 146.
- Divorce among the Mormons, 427.
- Dogs, Indian, 58, 472.
- Dog-Teutons in the prairies, 62.
- Dolphin Island, 327.
- Doxology, Mormon remarks on the fourteen articles of, 387, et seq.
- Dragon-fly, or devil's darning-needle, 60.
- Dress, Indian, 57, 59.
- Dress" of the Mormon fair sex, 227.
- Drivers of mail-coaches, their immorality, 5.
- Drivers" or "rippers," the, of the wagon-train, 23.
- Drought, trials of, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 167.
- Dry Creek, 483.
- Dubail, Constant, the woodman, 466.
- Dug-out, Joe, and his station, 334, 444.
- Dust-storms in the Valley of the Platte, 75.
- Dust-storms" of Utah, 276, 450, 451.
- Dust-storms" on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 168.
- East Kanyon Creek, 189.
- Eau qui court, or Niobrara River, 40, 72.
- Echo Kanyon, 184.
- Echo" Kanyon," beavers in the torrent-bed of, 187.
- Echo" Kanyon," Station, 187.
- Echo" Kanyon," the Mormons' breastworks in, 187.
- Echo" Kanyon," vegetation of, 187.
- Education in Deserét and England compared, 545.
- Education" in Great Salt Lake City, 422, 423, 425.
- Egan, Major Howard, 453.
- Egan's Creek, 183.
- Egan's" Springs, 454, 455.
- Egan's" Station, 467.
- Eggs and bacon, a constant dish in the West, 38.
- Eight-mile-Spring Kanyon, 465.
- Eight-mile" Springs, 465.
- Elder, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 402.
- Elk, the (Cervus Canadensis), habitat of, 68.
- Emigrants, diseases to which they are liable, 279.
- Emigrants," Mormon, arrival of, at Great Salt Lake City, 225–6.
- "Emigration Road" in Kansas, 16,
- Emigration Kanyon, 193.
- Emigration" Mormon system of, 295.
- Emigration" statistics of, 297.
- Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
- Endowment" House" mysteries of the, 220.
- Ensign Peak, spirit of Joseph Smith on, 196.
- Evening in the prairies, 38.
- Explorers, list of the principal, of the United States, who have published works on the subject, 171, 172, note.
- Eye of the Indian, 105.
- "Eye-opener," an, 52.
- Faces, Indian, 105, 106.
- Faith, articles of the Mormon, 387, et seq.
- Farms, Indian, 477.
- Farriery of the Indians, 119.
- Febrile affections in Great Salt Lake City, 279.
- Feet of the Indians, 104.
- Fences, "snake," of the West, 188.
- Feramorz, Colonel, 348.
- Ferris, B.J. on his work on Mormonism, 206, note.
- Ferris," Mrs., her work on "The Mormons at Home," 206, 207, note.
- Ferry, the Lower, over the Platte, 140.
- Fête at Great Salt Lake City, account of a, 230–2.
- Fetichism of the North American Indians, 107.
- "Fever, the Prairie," 22.
- Fingers considered as a trophy by the Indians, 142, note.
- Fireflies, or lightning-bugs, 60.
- Fires, prairie, 29.
- Fires, prairie, mode of stopping, 29.
- Fir-trees of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
- Fish of the streams flowing from the Black Hills, 134.
- Fish of the Sweetwater, 152.
- Fish" of the Wasach Lakes, 348.
- Fish" of Utah Lake, 334.
- Fish" Springs, 460,
- Fish" water of Great Salt Lake fatal to, 326.
- Fiumara. See Arroyo,
- Floods of the Missouri, 16.
- Flowers on the banks of La Grande Platte River, 41, 48, 53.
- Folles Avoines Indians, 96, note.
- Food prejudices, 65.
- Foot of Ridge Station, near the Sweetwater, 159.
- Fort Bridger, 178.
- Fort" Churchill, 493, 494.
- Forts, frontier, a camel corps proposed for, 46.
- Forts," frontier," of the United States described, 41, 42.
- Forts," frontier," remarks on the army system of outposts in the United States, 43, 44.
- Fox-River Indians, their tents, 86.
- Fox-River" the, or Rivière des Puantes, 19.
- Foxes in Echo Kanyon, 187.
- Frémont, Colonel, his exploration of the Rocky Mountains, 164.
- Frémont, Colonel, his traveling proprieties, 149.
- Frémont," Island, 328.
- Frémont," Peak, in the Rocky Mountains, 155, 161.
- Frémont," Peak," its height above sea-level, 164.
- Frémont," Slough, 53.
- Frémont," Springs, station at, 53.
- Frémont," Springs," the model veranda at, 53.
- Frogtown, or Fairfield, 335.
- Fruit in the gardens of the Prophet, 269.
- Fruit" wild, of Utah Territory, 283.
- Funeral ceremonies of the Sioux Indians, 122.
- Fustigator, the mammoth, of the American wagoners, 24.
- Gambling, fondness of the North American Indian for, 117.
- Game, abundance of, in the Wind-River Mountains, 68, 165.
- Gamma, or gramma, grass of the slopes west of Fort Laramie, 7.
- Gardens of the Prophet, in Great Salt Lake City, 269.
- General Johnston's Pass, 454.
- Geological formation at Fort Laramie, 90.
- Geological" formation" of Church Butte, 176.
- Geological" formation" of Echo Kanyon, 184.
- Geological" formation" of the banks of the Platte at Snow Creek, 141.
- Geological formation of the Black Hills, 134.
- Geological" formation" of the gold diggings, 484.
- Geological" formation" of the Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, 72.
- Geological formation of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153.
- Geological" formation" of the valley of the Green River, 169.
- Geological formation of Utah Territory, 194.
- Geological" formation" westward of the fort, 91.
- Germans in the prairies, their behavior, 62.
- Gibraltar Gate, 488.
- "Gift, an Indian," the proverb, 103.
- Gilston, Jim, of Illinois, 456.
- Girls, Indian, 59.
- Gold found in the Wind-River Mountains, 165.
- Gold" found in Utah Territory, 251.
- Gold" mines near the Great Salt Lake City, 270, 271.
- Golden Pass of Emigration Kanyon, 193.
- Gospel, grotesque accounts of the manner in which the Indians of old received the, 109.
- Government of the Mormons, 301.
- Grain, quantity produced in the Valley of Great Salt Lake, 264.
- Grand Island, in the Platte River. 39.
- Grand" River, Neosho, or White Water, the Osages settled on the, 34.
