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- Kanyon Creek, Big, 191.
- Kanyon" Creek," Big," station at, 191.
- Kanyon" near Great Salt Lake City, purity of the water of the, 332.
- Kanyon, the Devil's Gate, 151.
- Kanyons, stupendous, of Northern Mexico, 139, note.
- Kanyons, the, of America, 139, note.
- Kearney, Fort, 41.
- Kearney," Fort," longitude of, 6.
- Kelly, W., Esq., J.P., his chapters on Mormonism, 204, note.
- "Keening" the dead practiced among the Indians, 122.
- Kennedy, the Ras Kafilah, 455.
- Kennedy's Hole, 460.
- Kennekuk, in Kansas, halt at, 19.
- Kickapoo Indians, description of the, 20.
- Kickapoo" Indians," mode of building the tents of the, 85.
- Kickapoo Indians, strength of the tribe of, 20.
- Kickapoo" Indians," the, 19.
- Kimball, Heber C., his address in the Bowery, 262.
- Kimball" Heber C., " the president, account of, 241.
- Kinnikinik smoked by the American Indian, 111.
- Kinnikinik" the, 31.
- Kiowa Creek, Little, 79.
- Kiowa" Indians, lodges of the, 86.
- Kiowa" Indians," or Prairie-men, sign of the tribe of the, 124.
- Kisiskadjiwan River, Indians on the, 100.
- Kit, the traveler's, 9.
- Kiyuksa, or breakers of law, Indians, 97.
- Kleptomania of the Indians, 60.
- Kleptomania" of the Sioux, 102, 103.
- La Bonté Creek, 135.
- "Ladies" in the Prairies, 91, 92.
- Lake Alkali, 153.
- Lake" Carson, 274, 491.
- Lake" Cotton-wood, Great, 347.
- Lake" Devil's, 97.
- Lake" Great Salt, 194, 322, 323.
- Lake" Little Salt, 274.
- Lake" Miniswakan, 100.
- Lake" Mono, 274.
- Lake" Mud, 274
- Lake" Nicollet, 274.
- Lake" of the Hot Springs, 195.
- Lake" of the Wasach Mountains, 347.
- Lake" of the Woods, 100.
- Lake" Pyramid, 274.
- Lake" qui Parle, 96.
- Lake" Saleratus, 147.
- Lake" Stone, 96.
- Lake" Traverse, 96.
- Lake" Utah, or Sweet-water Reservoir, 274, 382, 446.
- Lake, Walker's, 274.
- Lake," Winnipeg, 100.
- Lakes, Three, 161.
- Lance, the, of the North American Indian, 119.
- Land-tenure of the Mormons, 290.
- Lander's Cut-off, 158.
- Language, its peculiarities, 121.
- Language," men's first and progressive steps in, 121.
- Language, the, of the Sioux, 120.
- Language," the pantomime of the Indians, or sign-system of, 123.
- Languages of the Northeastern Indians, 96, note.
- Laramie City, 88.
- Laramie" City," prices of skins at, 88.
- Laramie" Fort, climate and soil at, 90.
- Laramie" Fort," formerly Fort John, 90.
- Laramie" Fort," longitude of, 6.
- Laramie" Fort," vegetation of the slopes west of, 7.
- Laramie" Hills, geography of the, 134.
- Laramie" Peak, 79.
- Laramie's Fork, 90.
- Lasso, the, 68.
- Last-Timber Station, 71, note.
- Lawrence Fork, 71.
- Lawrence" Fork," origin of the name, 72.
- Leadplant (Amorphe canescens), the, of the American wilderness, 64.
- Leaf-shooter Indians, 96.
- Leather manufactured at Great Salt Lake City, 344,
- Leeches, American, 466–7.
- Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory, 310.
- Lehi City, 447.
- Liberty-poles in the United States, 251.
- Library, public, of Great Salt Lake City, 235.
- Lightning-bug, or fire-fly, 60.
- Lignite in Nebraska, 141.
- Lion House in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
- Lion" the mountain, or cougar, 153, and note.
- Litters, Indian, 58.
- Little Mountain, 192.
- Little" Mr., his tannery, 344,
- Locknan's Station, 21.
- Locknan's" Station," vegetation of, 21.
- Lodge-Pole Creek, or Fork, 64.
- Lodge" -Pole" Station, 66.
- Lodge" -Pole" Station," squalor and wretchedness of, 66.
- London, Mormon meeting-houses in and about, 301, note.
- Long-chin, the Indian murderer, 85.
- Long-" Valley, 471
- Look-out Fort, 97.
- Louis, St., altitude and temperature of, 159.
- Loup Fork, ferry across, 71, note.
- woe Lieutenant W.F., his proprieties of travel, 50, 66.
- Lynn, Catharine Lewis, her work on Mormonism, 206, note.
- Macarthy, Mr., his establishment, 170, 172.
- Macarthy, Mr., " his rough-and-tumble, 183,
- Macarthy, Mr., " of Green-River Station, 170.
- Mail-coach route from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4
- Mail-coach, slow rate of traveling, 5.
- Main or Whisky Street, in Great Salt Lake City, 217
- Maize, question as to its being indigenous to America, 110, note.
- Majors, Mr. Alexander, his efforts to reform the morals of his mail drivers, 5.
- Mankizitah, or White-Earth River, 72.
- Manna in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
- Manufacturers in Utah Territory, 317–20.
- Marcy, Major, 73.
- Marcy," Major," his "Prairie Traveler" quoted, 4.
- Market-place, absence of a, in Great Salt Lake City, 201.
- Marriage among the Mormons, 427, 432.
- Marriage" among the North American Indians, 116.
- Marshall, James W., his discovery of Californian gold, 356.
- Martin, Michael, his store, 178.
- Marysville, or old Palmetto City, trade of, 29.
- Materialism, Mormon, 384.
- Matriya, the "Scattering Bear," death of, 89.
- Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, extent of the, 72.
- Mdewakantonwan Indians, civilization of the, 100.
- Mdewakantonwan" Indians," habitat of the, 96.
- Meadow Creek, 451, 452.
- Medical men in Great Salt Lake City, 278.
- Medicine-man of the Indians, 108.
- Medicine-" the Indians' knowledge of, 118, 119.
- Medicines necessary to the Western traveler, 9, 10.
- Menomene Indians, habitat of the, 96.
- Menomene" Indians," tents of the, 86.
- Meteorology of Utah Territory, 275.
- Methodism, foundation of, 365.
- Mexico, Northern, stupendous kanyons of, 139, note.
- Mezquite, or muskeet-tree (Algarobia glandulosa), 7.
- Midway Station, 49.
- Military departments into which the United States are divided, 42, 43, note.
- Militia force of Great Salt Lake City, 354–5.