INDEX.
573
- United States, proposal for establishing a camel corps in the, 46.
- United States, remarks on the army system of outposts in the, 43, 44.
- Utah Indians, lodges of the, 86.
- Utah Lake, or Sweetwater Reservoir, 274, 332, 444, 446.
- Utah Territory, bad effects of conflicting judiciaries in, 312.
- Utah Territory, boundaries of, 273.
- Utah Territory, cities and counties of, 291–3.
- Utah Territory, climate of, 275.
- Utah Territory, configuration of the country, 273.
- Utah Territory, diseases in, 278.
- Utah Territory, geography of, 273.
- Utah Territory, geology of, 281.
- Utah Territory, grazing in, 284.
- Utah Territory, Indians of, 473.
- Utah Territory, lakes of, 274.
- Utah Territory, Legislative Assembly of, 310.
- Utah Territory, minerals of, 281.
- Utah Territory, Mormon government in, 301.
- Utah Territory, origin of the name, 272.
- Utah Territory, population of, 294.
- Utah Territory, present state of agriculture in, 285.
- Utah Territory, principal value of, 287.
- Utah Territory, proposed route to, 3.
- Utah Territory, rights of the citizens of, 311.
- Utah Territory, scourges of crickets and grasshoppers in, 284.
- Utah Territory, singular formation of the mountains of, 275.
- Utah Territory, soil of, 283.
- Utah Territory, springs of, 274.
- Utah Territory, the Great Desert of, 455.
- Utah Territory, the Indian bureau of, 476.
- Utah Territory, the past of Mormonland, 288.
- Utah Territory, United States officials in, 309–10.
- Utah Territory, want of timber in, 284–5.
- Utah Territory, wild animals of, 279.
- Valley Home, in Kansas, 19.
- "Valley Tan," origin of the name, 170, and note.
- Vegetables grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
- Vegetation at Black Fork, 176, 177–8.
- Vegetation at Quaking-Asp Hill, 181.
- Vegetation of Big Kanyon, 192, 193.
- Vegetation of Big Mountain, 190.
- Vegetation of Big Sandy Creek, 167, 169.
- Vegetation of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
- Vegetation of Kansas, 17.
- Vegetation of Little Blue River, 31.
- Vegetation of the banks of La Grande Platte River, 41, 48, 52, 53.
- Vegetation of the valleys of the Black Hills, 134.
- Vegetation of the Wind-River Mountains, 163.
- Veranda, a model, 53.
- Vermilion Creek, 27.
- Viburnum dentatum, 119.
- Villages, Indian, 86.
- Violin, Mormon fondness for the, 177.
- Waddington, Mr., the Mormon, 463.
- Wágáhongopá, or Glistening Gravel Water, 167.
- Wagon trains of the Great American Sahara, 22.
- Wagons, various uses of the, of the prairies, 71.
- Wagons, price of the, called ambulances, 73 note.
- Wahpekute Indians, habitat of the, 96.
- Wahpetonwan Indians, habitat of the, 96.
- Wakoes, tents of the, 85.
- Walker's Lake, 274.
- Wallace, Mr., at the Bowery, 260.
- Walls, the great, of Great Salt Lake City, 197.
- Walnut Creek, 21.
- Walnut Creek, prairie storm at, 21.
- War-parties among the Indians, 143.
- War-party, return home of a, 144.
- Ward, Mrs. Maria, her work on Mormonism, 206, note.
- Ward, W., the Mormon sculptor and apostate, 246.
- Wards into which Great Salt Lake City is divided, 217.
- Ward's Station, or the "Central Star," 91.
- Warm Springs, 158.
- Warm Springs, barren country beyond, 158.
- Warren, Lieutenant Gouverneur K., report of, on Nebraska quoted, 7.
- Warriors, Indian, 57.
- Wasach Mountains, 189, 195.
- Wasach Mountains, eternal snow of the, 323.
- Washiki, the Shoshonee chief, 165.
- Washington County, Utah Territory, description of, 292, note.
- Water communication, idea of, between the Missouri and the Columbia Rivers, 162, 163, note.
- Water, none in the First Desert, 167.
- Water, scarcity of, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 166.
- Water, supply of, in Great Salt Lake City, 216.
- Wazikute Indians, 97.
- Weapons necessary to the Western traveler, 9.
- Weapons of the North American Indians, 57, 119, 120.
- Weber River, 182.
- Weber River, head and course of the, 188, 325.
- Weber River, rain-storms and cold winds of, 188.
- Weber River, Station, 188.
- Weber River, tributaries of the, 189.
- Weber River, valley of the, 188.
- Weed-prairie, the, 48.
- Wells, General, the Mormon president, account of, 241, 354.
- Western man's home, description of a, 468–9.
- Whisky a favorite with the wagon drivers, 24.
- Whisky "Valley Tan," 170.
- White-Earth River, or Mankizitah, 72.
- White Knife Indians, 481–2.
- White Mountains, 450.
- "White Savages" of the West, 173, and note.
- Wichiyela, or First-Nation Indians, 97.
- Wigwams, huts, or cabins of the Eastern American Indians, 86, note.
- Wilderness, the American, 63.
- Wilderness, the American, animal life in, 64.
- Willow Creek, 161.
- Willow Creek, a little war at, 461.
- Willow Creek, Canadian settlers at, 161.
- Willow Creek, station at, 461.
- Willow Island Ranch, 49.
- Willow Springs Station, 147.
- Willow, the red, the bark of, smoked, 111.
- Wind, alternate hot and cold puffs of, in the prairies, 79.
- Wind River, fountain-head of the, 162.
- Wind River, Mountains, 162, 163, 164.
- Wind River, Mountains, evening view of the, 164.
- Wind River, Mountains, game in the, 68.
- Wind River, Mountains, gold found in the, 165.
- Wind River, Mountains, morning in the, 166.
- Wind River, Mountains, wild animals of the wooded heights, 165.
- Winds, cold, of Weber-River Station, 188.
- Wind-storms of the South Pass, 165.
- Wind, west, almost invariable at the South Pass, 163.
- Winnebagoes, Winnipegs, or Ochangras, Indian tribe of the, 20, note.
- Winnebagoes, their tents, 86.
- Winnipeg Lake, Indians on, 100.
- Witchetaws, tents of the, 85.
- Wright, Mose, 472–3, 481–2.
- Wolves at Rocky Bridge Station, 160, 161.
- Wolves, near Black's Fork, 176.
- Wolves, the prairie, 30.
- Women, excess of the female over the male population in Utah
- Territory, 301.
- Women, house of the wives of the Prophet in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
- Women, Indian, 59, 106.
- Women, Indian names of, 115.
- Women, marriage among the North American Indians, 116.
- Women, Mormon marriage, 427, 432.
- Women, Mormon, their polygamy, 431.
