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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.