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• Mud Lake, 274.
• Mud Spring station, 71.
• Muddy Creek, Big, 180.
• Muddy Creek, Little, 140, 180.
• Muddy Creek, Little, the Canadian station-master at, 180.
• Muddy Creek, Little, wretched station at, 140.
• Muddy Fork, 174.
• Mules in the West, 135.
• Mules, obstinacy of, 14.
• Mules, of Central America, 13, 14.
• Mules, rate of progress of, 14.
• Mules, recalcitrancies of, 157, 167.
• Murder, Mormon punishment for, 426.
• Murders in and near Great Salt Lake City, 225, 339.
• Murders in Carson City, 225.
• Murphy, Captain, his loyalty, 181.
• Muskrat Station, 159.
• Muskrat the, 159, note.
• Mustang of the Black Hills, 142.
• Mustang the, or prairie pony, 68, note.
• Myers, Mr., the Mormon of Bear-River Valley, 182.
• Mysteries of Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220.

 

• Names, Indian, 115.
• Names, of the Mormons, 227.
• Nauvoo Legion, account of the, 354-5.
• Nauvoo Legion, story of two warriors of the, 187.
• Nebraska, meaning of the word, 40.
• Nebraska River. See Platte, La Grande.
• Nebraska, Southern, rainy season in, 16.
• Needle Rocks, 183.
• Nemehaw Creek, Big, 21.
• Neophytes, Mormon, behavior of the, 228-9.
• Newspapers in Great Salt Lake City, 255.
• Nicollet Lake, 274.
• Niobrara, or Eau qui court River, 40, 72.
• Nullah. See Arroyo.

 

• Oats, wild (Avena fatua), of the Pacific water-shed, 139.
• "Obelisks, the," 188.
• O'Fallon's Bluffs, 48, 53.
• Officials, federal, behavior in Great Salt Lake City of the, 421.
• Ojibwa Indians, habitat of the, 100, 101.
• Ojibwa, the name, 100, note.
• Ogalala, or Okandanda Indians, habitat of the, 98.
• Ogalala, village of the, 85.
• Omaha Creek, or Little Punkin, 71.
• Onions, wild, of the valley of the Little Blue River, 31.
• Oohenonpa Indians, habitat and numbers of the, 98.
• Ophthalmia in Utah Territory, 278.
• Opinion, public, in Great Salt Lake City, 197.
• Oquirrh Mountains, 191, 194, 322.
• Oregon, boundary-stone between it and Utah, 169.
• Oregon, establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to, 4.
• Oregon, origin of the name, 169, note.
• Ormsby, Mayor, his death, 479.
• Osages, account of the tribe of the, 34.
• Osages, cession of the territory of the, 34.
• Osages, mode of building the lodges of the, 85.
• Ottagamies, the Indian tribe of, 20, note.
• Outfit, the traveler's, 9.
• Outposts, remarks on the United States army system of, 43, 44.
• Owl, the burrowing (Strix cunicularia), 66.
• Oxen shod at Great Salt Lake City, 270.
• Ox-riding, 24, note.

 

• Pabakse, or Cut-Head Indians, 97.
• Pacific Creek, 167.
• Pacific Railroad, difficulties of a, 277.
• Pacific Railroad, routes proposed for a, 3.
• Pacific Springs, 163.
• Pacific Springs, station at, 163, 166.
• Padouca River, 60, 63.
• Pantomime, Indian, or speaking with the fingers, 123.
• Pantomime, preliminary signs for the traveler, 124.
• Pantomime, signs of some of the Indian tribes, 123.
• Pantomime, various other signs, 124-30.
• Panama, 501.
• Parley's Kanyon, 195, 344.
• Patriarch, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
• Pawnee Indians, account of the, 36.
• Pawnee Indians, principal sub-tribes of the, 37.
• Pawnee Indians, readiness of the, to cut off a single traveler, 138.
• Pawnee Indians, sign of the tribe of the, 123.
• Peddlers, licensed and unlicensed, 81.
• Penitentiary, the, of Great Salt Lake City, 271.
• Phelps, Judge and Apostle, his "Sermon on the Mount," 196, note.
• Phelps, Judge and Apostle, visit to, 253.
• Pigeons a constant dish in Italy, 38.
• "Pike's Peakers" on the road, 60.
• Pine-tree Stream, 174.
• Pine Valley, 480.
• Piñon-tree, fruit of the, 466.
• Piñon-tree (P. monophyllus) of the West, 285.
• Pipes of the Côteau des Prairies, 88.
• "Pitch-holes or chuck-holes" of the prairies, 18.
• Placerville City, 499.
• Platte Bridge, delicious climate of, 137.
• Platte, Fort, 90.
• Platte River, a dust storm in the valley of the, 75.
• Platte River, appearance of the, at Platte Bridge, 136.
• Platte River, beauty of the banks of the, 39.
• Platte River, character of the soil beyond the immediate banks of the, 41.
• Platte River, coal found on the banks of the, 141.
• Platte River, division of the, into the northern and southern streams, 60.
• Platte River, farewell to the, 146.
• Platte River, fording the, 63.
• Platte River, La Grande, or Nebraska, 39.
• Platte River, Lower Ferry over the, 140.
• Platte River, noxious exhalations from the, 48.
• Platte River, shallowness of the, 40.
• Platte River, tender adieux at the upper crossing of the, 62.
• Platte River, timber on the banks of the, 40, 41.
• Platte River, wild garden on the shores of the, 41.
• Pleasant Valley, 461.
• Plum Creek, 48.
• Plum Creek Ranche, soil about, 48.
• Poetry of the Sioux Indians, 122.
• Point Look-out, 454.
• Poison Springs, 461.
• Poisons, animal and vegetable, of the Prairie Indians, 120.
• Polar plant, the, 48.
• Police, private, of Mormon life, 224.
• Police, public, of Great Salt Lake City, 224.
• Polygamy among the Mormons, 373, 426.
• Polygamy, justification of, 384.
• Polygamy, Mrs. Pratt's letter on, 433, et seq.
• Polygamy, results of, 428.
• Polygamy, revelation to Joseph Smith on, 373.
• Polygamy, views of women respecting, 431.
• Pony Express, the, 28, note.
• Pony Express, the, on the road, 169.
• Pony Express, postage by the, 29.
• Pony Express, riders of the, 29.
• Population of Utah Territory, 294.
• Population of Utah Territory, excess of females, 301.
• Populus tremuloides, the, 180.
• Postal system of the United States, evils of the contract system, 172, 173, note.
• Powder River, Indians of the, 97.
• Prairie, absence of animal life on the, 18.
• Prairie, an evening in the, 38.
• Prairie compass, the, 48.
• Prairie dog, the (Cynomys Ludovicianus), 66.
• Prairie dog, his associates, reptiles, birds, and beasts, 66.
• Prairie-dog village, 65.