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  • Horseshoe Creek, gold found at, 165.
  • Horseshoe" Station, 91.
  • Horses, Indian, 56, 57-8.
  • Horses," of the Dakotah Indians, 99.
  • Horse-stealing, punishment for, in the Western States, 90, 360.
  • Hotels in Great Salt Lake City, 201.
  • Hotels" in the Far West, 201, note.
  • Hot springs near Great Salt Lake City, 236.
  • Hot" springs" analysis of the water of, 236, note.
  • Houses, materials of, in Great Salt Lake City, 197, 198.
  • Howard, Mr., 457.
  • Humboldt River, 480.
  • Hunkpapa Indians, 98.
  • Hunkpatidan Indians, 97.
  • Hunter, President Bishop, 226.
  • Huntingdon Valley, 480.
  • Hurricanes of Scott's Bluffs, 7S.
  • Hyde, John, his work on Mormonism, 208, note.
  • Ice springs, 158.
  • Ihanktonwan Indians, their habitat and present condition, 97.
  • Immorality of the mail-coach drivers, 5.
  • Independence Day, New, of the Mormons, 251,
  • Independence Day, New, celebration of, 349, note.
  • India, remarks on the army system of outposts in, 43, 45.
  • Indian arms, 57, 119.
  • Indian" arts, 118–19.
  • Indian" boys and girls, 59, 107.
  • Indian" camp, an, 472.
  • Indian" character, 102–3.
  • Indian" creed, few rites and ceremonies of the, 115.
  • Indian" curriculum of the Prairie, 107.
  • Indian" dancing, 110.
  • Indian" departments of the United States, management of the, 132.
  • Indian dress, 57, 59.
  • Indian" farms, 477.
  • Indian" fighting, 43.
  • Indian" half-breeds, 80.
  • Indian" "home," the, 32.
  • Indian" horses, 56, 57–8.
  • Indian" kleptomania, 60, 102, 103.
  • Indian" marriages, 116.
  • Indian" mode of hunting the buffalo and preparing the skins, 51, 52.
  • Indian mode of stampeding animals, 16–7.
  • Indian" mode" of wearing the hair, 56.
  • Indian" names, 115.
  • Indian" population in the middle of the last and present centuries, 99, note.
  • Indian prejudice against speaking, 80.
  • Indian" religion of the, 107.
  • Indian" reservation, distribution of the, 32.
  • Indian" scalping, 112.
  • Indian" skull, form and dimensions of the, 105.
  • Indian" smoking, 110, 111–12.
  • Indian" summer, the, 79, 483.
  • Indian" the name, a misnomer for American aborigines, 55.
  • Indian village, description of the remove of an, 56.
  • Indian" villages and tents, 85.
  • Indian" women, 106.
  • Indians, account of the Pawnees, 36.
  • Indians," best scheme for preserving the race of, 35.
  • Indians," causes which rapidly thin the tribesmen, 34.
  • Indians, difficulties attending the scheme of civilization of the, 36.
  • Indians, effects of alcohol among the various tribes of, 82.
  • Indians, ferocity of, and whites, 60,
  • Indians," grotesque accounts of the manner in which they formerly received the Gospel, 109.
  • Indians, how treated by the United States, 32.
  • Indians," kindness of the Mormons to the, 245.
  • Indians," languages of the northeastern tribes of, 96, note.
  • Indians, Lieutenant Weed's defeat of the Gosh Yutas, 467, 470.
  • Indians, mistaken public opinion of the, and of their ancestors, 55.
  • Indians, proposals for raising native regiments of, 47.
  • Indians, the American philanthropist's mode of civilizing the, 35.
  • Indians, the Comanches, 61, note.
  • Indians," the dignity of chief, 117.
  • Indians," their arrow-poison, 482.
  • Indians," their course of life, 117.
  • Indians," their future considered, 101.
  • Indians," their "home," 32.
  • Indians," their murder of Loscier and Applegate, 484.
  • Indians, their opinion of their own strength, 101.
  • Indians," their progress toward extinction, 102.
  • Indians," their Turanian origin,
  • Indians," the, of Utah Territory, 473.
  • Indians," the squaws, 59.
  • Indians," the Yutas, 474–6.
  • Indians," total number of, on the prairies and the Rocky Mountains, 38.
  • Indians, tribes and sub-tribes of the Sioux, 96.
  • Industry in Great Salt Lake City, 316.
  • Industry" list of articles of, 317–320, note.
  • Intoxicating drink, a new, 24, note.
  • Intoxicating" drink," mode of manufacturing "Indian liquor," 81–2.
  • Intoxicating drink, one made from a cactus, 64, note.
  • Irish women in the West, 175.
  • Iron County, coal and iron found in, 282.
  • Iron" found in Utah Territory, 281.
  • Island, Antelope, or Church, 194, 323, 327.
  • Island," Bonhomme, 15.
  • Island," Carrington, 327.
  • Island," Cedar, the first, in the Missouri, 41.
  • Island," Dolphin, 327.
  • Island," Frémont, 328.
  • Island," Grande, in the Platte River, 39.
  • Island," Gunnison's, 327.
  • Island," Hat, 327.
  • Island," Stansbury, 327.
  • Islets of La Grande Platte River, 40.
  • Itazipko, Sans Arc, or No-Bow Indians, their habitat, 98.
  • Itinerary, the emigrant's, 505.
  • Itinerary," of the mail route from Great Salt Lake City to San Francisco, 511.
  • Jack, the Arapaho Indian, and his squaw, 146, 147.
  • Jackal, the, of the Western world, 64. See Coyote.
  • Jacques, Elder John, his Mormon works, 212, note.
  • James River, Indians of, 97.
  • Jesuitism as a means of civilization of the Indians, 85.
  • Jimsen weed, 111.
  • Jo, St., city of, 12, 15.
  • Johnston's Settlement, 451.
  • Jones, Elder Dan, his Mormon works, 215, note.
  • Jordan, New, its course in the Wasach Mountains, 332.
  • Jordan, New, the river in Great Salt Lake City, 3, 325.
  • "Jornada," or day's march, 167.
  • Junction-House Ranch, 53,
  • Kamas Prairie, 182, and note.
  • Kane, Colonel T.L., account of him, 204, note.
  • Kane," Colonel" T.L.," his work on the Mormons, 204, note.
  • Kansas, a specimen of squatter life in, 19.
  • Kansas," "bleeding," 16.
  • Kansas," "gales," 21.
  • Kansas," prairies of, 17.
  • Kansas," rainy season in, 16.
  • Kansas," shanties in, 18.
  • "Kansas-Nebraska Act," passing of the, 33.