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- Soil of the country beyond the Warm Springs, 158.
- Soil of the Valley of the Black Hills, 134.
- Soil of Utah Territory, 283.
- Soldiers, army grievances of, 445.
- Soldiers, at Camp Floyd, 444.
- Soldiers, discharged, on the road home, 154.
- Soldiers, disliked in the United States, 336.
- Soldiers manners and customs of the, of former times, 444–5.
- Soldiers, United States, dress of, 446.
- Songs of the Sioux Indians, 122.
- South-Pass City, in the Rocky Mountains, 161.
- South-Pass of the Rocky Mountains, 161.
- South-Pass its extent and height above sea level, 162.
- South Pass the fountain-head of some of the great rivers of America, 161.
- Spencer, Elder Orson, his works on Mormonism, 212, note.
- Spring Valley, 466.
- Spur, the prairie, 27.
- Squatter life in Kansas, a specimen of, 19.
- Squatter life, difficulties and dangers of, 101.
- Squaws, Indian, 59.
- Squaws, Indian, dirty cookery of the, 80.
- Squaws, of the Sioux Indians, 103.
- Squirrel, the chipmonk or chipmuk, 159, note.
- Squirrel, the ground, 159.
- Squirrel, the spotted prairie, 159, note.
- Staines, Mr. W. C., the Mormon, 269.
- Stalking the antelope on the prairies, 67.
- Stambaugh, Colonel, 233.
- Stampede, the great dread of the prairie traveler, 76.
- Stansbury, Captain, his scruples as to the observance of Sunday on the march, 149.
- Stansbury, Captain, his work on Mormonism, 203, note.
- Stansbury Island, 327.
- Stenhouse, Elder T. B. H., and his wife, 223.
- Stirrup, the prairie, 26.
- Store, a, in the Valley of the Platte, 53.
- Storm, prairie, at Walnut Creek, 21.
- Storm of dust in the Valley of the Platte, 75.
- Stone Lake, Big, Indian tribes at, 96.
- Stone used for the Mormon temple, 195.
- Strawberries, wild, 161.
- Strawberry Creek, 161.
- Streets of Great Salt Lake City, 216, 217.
- Sturgis, Captain, his chastisement of the Indians, 43.
- Suckers, the fish so called, 152.
- Sugar House in Great Salt Lake City, 271.
- Sulphur Creek, 181.
- Sulphurous pools in Great Salt Lake Valley, 274.
- Sumach, the, 31.
- Summer, the Indian, 79, 483.
- Sumner, Brigadier General, his chastisement of the Indians, 43.
- Sunflower, the, in the Valley of the Little Blue River, 31.
- Sunflower, value of its seeds, 31.
- Superstition of the Indian, 107, 108.
- Sweetwater Hills, or Green-River Mountains, the, 153.
- Sweetwater River, influents of the, 161.
- Sweetwater River, its beauty, 153, 154.
- Sweetwater River, its water, 150.
- Sweetwater River, M'Achran's Branch of, 161.
- Sweetwater River, or Pina Pa, 150, 158.
- Syracuse, in Kansas, 18.
- Tabernacle, the, of Great Salt Lake City, 219, 220.
- Table Mountain, 162.
- Tangle-leg, a new intoxicating liquor, 24, note.
- Tannery of Mr. Little at Great Salt Lake City, 344.
- Tar Springs, 182.
- Taxes of Great Salt Lake City, 315.
- Taylor, John, the Mormon apostle, 270.
- Teachers and deacons in the Mormon hierarchy, 403.
- Teeth of the Indian, 106.
- Temperature at Fort Laramie, 90.
- Temperature at the Foot of Ridge Station, 159.
- Temperature of St. Louis, 159.
- Temperature on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 168.
- Temple Block in Great Salt Lake City, 217.
- Temple description of the, 515.
- Tent, Major Sibley's, 87.
- Tents of the Prairie Indians, 85, 86.
- Tetrao pratensis, 142.
- Tetrao urophasianus, 142.
- Thermal Springs near Great Salt Lake City, 236.
- Thermal Springs near Great Salt Lake City, analysis of the waters of, 236, note.
- Thirty-two-mile Creek, 38.
- Thirty-two-mile Creek, the station at, 38.
- Three Lakes, 161.
- "Thunder, Little," chief of the Brûlé Sioux, defeated and deposed, 89.
- "Thunder, Little," description of, 132.
- "Thunder, Little," visit from, 132.
- Thunder-storms in Utah, 276.
- Timber of Grasshopper Creek, 21.
- Timber of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
- Timber of La Grande Platte River, 40, 41, 53.
- Timber of Locknan's Station, 21.
- Timber of the Black Hills, 134.
- Timber of the Mississippi, 15.
- Timber progressive decay of prairie, 69.
- Timber the Western man's instinctive dislike of, 170.
- Timber, want of, in Utah Territory, 284.
- Time, the Indian's notion of, 118.
- Timpanogos Kanyon, visit to, 446.
- Timpanogos or Provo River, 333.
- Timpanogos Water, 182.
- Tithes paid by the Mormons, 249.
- Tithing House in Great Salt Lake City, 249.
- Titonwan Indians, habitat and present condition of the, 97.
- Titonwan Indians, sub-tribes of the, 98.
- Tobacco, the traveler's outfit of, 10.
- Tobacco, use of, among the American Indians, 110.
- Toilet of the prairie traveler, 10.
- Tolerance of the Mormons, 351.
- Tongues, gift of, 268.
- Tonkowas, tents of the, 85.
- Tophet, 454.
- Totem, the, of the Indian, 108.
- Towakamies, tents of the, 85.
- Townsend, Mr., the Mormon hotel-keeper, 202.
- Traders, licensed and unlicensed, 81.
- Trafalgar Square, barbarous incongruity of, 185.
- Trapper, the, of sixty years ago, 83.
- Travel, proprieties of, 149.
- Travelers, mismanagement of inexperienced, 229.
- Traveling, slow rate of, of the mail-coaches from Missouri to California and Oregon, 5.
- Traverse, Lake, Indians at, 96.
- Traverse Mountain, 332.
- Trona formation of Alkali Lake, 153.
- Trona formation of Saleratus Lake, 147, note.
- Troy, in Kansas, 18.
- Turkey Creek, or Rock, 30.
- Turkey Creek, the "ranch" at, 30.
- Turnip, the prairie, 182, note.
- "Twelve, the," in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
- "Twin Peaks" of the Wasach Mountains, 195.
- Twiss, Major, 138.
- Uinta Hills, 176, 178.
- Uncle John's Grocery, 27.
- Uncle John's Grocery, Indians at, 27.
- United States, eastern and western divisions of the, 6.
- United States, extent of the, 6.
- United States, military departments into which they are divided, 42, 43, note.
- United States, "Prairie land" of the, 6.
- United States, present policy of the, toward the Indian, 101.