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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.