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The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
by Richard Francis Burton
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INDEX.

  • Aborigines, American. See Indians.
  • Absinthe. See Sage, wild.
  • Academy of the 7th Ward of Great Salt Lake City, 360.
  • Adobe manufactory near Great Salt Lake City, 344–5.
  • Adobe of the Western World, 197.
  • Adobe" origin of the name, 197, note.
  • Adoption among the North American Indians, 117.
  • Adoption" Mormon principle of, 269.
  • Adultery, Mormon punishment for, 426.
  • Agricultural Society of Deserét, 316.
  • Agriculture, list of premiums awarded at the annual show, 285–287, note.
  • Agriculture, present state of, in Great Salt Lake Valley, 285.
  • Alamo. See Cotton-wood-tree.
  • Albino, rarity of an, among the Indians, 104.
  • Albinos among buffaloes, 51.
  • Alcohol distilled in Great Salt Lake City, 320.
  • Alexander, Colonel B., his hospitality, 90.
  • Algæ in Great Salt Lake, 326.
  • Algarobia grandulosa, or mezquite-tree, 7.
  • Alkali Lake, 153.
  • Alkali" Lake," Station on the Platte River, 54.
  • Almanac, the, published in Utah, 253.
  • America, shape of the continent of, 6.
  • American Fork, 447.
  • "Americanisms, Dictionary of," Bartlett's, quoted 17, note.
  • Animal life, absence of, on the Grand Prairie, 18.
  • Animal" life," in the American Sahara, 64.
  • Animal" worship of the American Indians, 103.
  • Animals and vegetables, confusing trivial names for, in America, 142, note.
  • Animals, Indian signs for, 126.
  • Animals," of the Uinta Hills, 178.
  • Animals," small quantity of food required to fatten, in the Rocky Mountains and in Somali-land, 140.
  • Animals, wild, at Rocky Bridge, 159.
  • Animals," wild" in the wooded heights of the Wind-River Mountains, 165.
  • Animals, wild, of the Black Hills, 142.
  • Animals," wild," of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153.
  • Animals," wild," of Utah Territory, 279.
  • Antelope at Rocky Ridge, 159.
  • Antelope" its habitat, 67.
  • Antelope" its meat, 67.
  • Antelope" or Church Island, 194, 323, 327.
  • Antelope" Springs, 464, 465.
  • Antelope" the (Antelocapra Americana), 67.
  • Ant-hills, 196.
  • Apadomey female warriors, 113.
  • Arapaho, or Dirty-Nose Indians, 142, 143.
  • Arapaho," loose conduct of, 117.
  • Arapaho," sign of the tribe of, 123, 124.
  • Arapaho," their lodges, 86.
  • Arapaho," their personal appearance, 143, 144.
  • Arapaho," visit of some, from a neighboring camp, 142.
  • Archery, Sioux skill in, 120.
  • Arickaree, or Ree Indians, 37.
  • Arms of the North American Indians, 57, 119.
  • Arms" ignorance of the lower grades of English of the use of, 174.
  • Army of the United States, remarks on the, 336.
  • Army" grievances of the, 445.
  • Arroyo, fiumara or nullah, an, 70.
  • Arrow-poison of the Indians, 482.
  • Arrows of the North American Indian, 119, 120.
  • Arrow-wood (Viburnum dentatum), 119.
  • Art in America, remarks on, 186, 187.
  • Artemisia. See Sage, wild.
  • Asclepias tuberosa, common in Utah Territory, 167.
  • Ash Hollow, 70.
  • Ash" Hollow" General Harney's defeat of the Brûlé Sioux at, 70, 89.
  • Ash-Hollow Creek, 70.
  • Assiniboin Indians, 97.
  • Assiniboin" Indians," their present habitat, 100.
  • Assiniboin" River, 100.
  • Aurora borealis, a splendid, in the prairies, 61.
  • Avena fatua of the Pacific Water-shed, 139.
  • Badeau's Ranch, or Laramie City, 83.
  • Badgers at Rocky-Bridge Station, 161.
  • Bartlett's "Dictionary of Americanisms" quoted, 17, note.
  • Basswood, 17.
  • "Basswood Mormons," 17, note.
  • Bath, the hot air and water, of the North American Indian, 119.
  • Bathing and its dangers, 156.
  • Battle Creek, 447.
  • Bauchmin's Creek, 189, 190.
  • Bauchmin's" Creek," valley of, 189.
  • Bauchmin's" Fork, 189.
  • Bauchmin's" station at, 189.
  • "Bear's Rib," Mato Chigukesa, made chief of the Brûlé Sioux, 89.
  • Bear Bay, 182.
  • Bear" flesh of the, as food, 231.
  • Bear" in Cotton-wood Kanyon, 347.
  • Bear" of the Black Hills, 142.
  • Bear" River, 182, 183, 325.
  • Bear" River," coal found on the banks of, 182.
  • Bear" River," Mountains, 174.
  • Bear" Springs, in Utah Territory, 274.
  • Bear" the grizzly, 192.
  • Bear" traps, 347.
  • Beavers in the torrent-bed of Echo Kanyon, 187.
  • Beavers" tails of, as food, 231.
  • Bedstead, populousness of, 202.
  • Bee, a, on the topmost summit of the Rocky Mountains, 165.
  • Bee House in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
  • Beer, or Soda Springs, 179.
  • Beer" of Great Salt Lake City, 320.
  • Beet-root grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
  • Bell, Governor, of Great Salt Lake City, 215.
  • Bench-land of the Great Salt Lake Valley, 195.
  • Bennett, J.C., his work on the Mormons, 205, note.
  • Big Field, near Great Salt Lake City, 198.
  • Bighorn, or American moufflon, 153, 155.
  • Big Kanyon, 192.
  • Big Mountain, 190.
  • Big" Mountain," pass of the, 190, 191.
  • Bill of fare at a supper in Great Salt Lake City, 232.
  • Birds near Fort Kearney, 48.
  • Birds" of Utah Territory, 280.
  • Birds" wild, of the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, 165.
  • Bishops, the Mormon, 400.
  • Bison Americanus. See Buffalo. ​
  • Bissonette, M., the Creole, 139.
  • Blackfeet, or Sisahapa Indians, 98.
  • Blackfeet," sign of the tribe of, 124.
  • Blackfeet," their friendliness to whites, 165.
  • Blackfeet," their lodges, 86.
  • Black Hills, the, 91.
  • Black" Hills," the, animals to which they afford shelter, 142.
  • Black Hills, geography of the, 134.
  • Black Rock, near Great Salt Lake, 324,
  • Black" Rock," view from the, 330.
  • Black's Fork River, 174, 176.
  • Black's" Fork" vegetation of, 177, 178.
  • Bloomer dress, 91, 92.
  • Blue River, Big, 29.
  • Blue" River," Little, 38.
  • Blue" River," Little," fish of the, 38.
  • Blue-Earth River, Indians west of, 96.
  • Bluffs on the prairies, 29.
  • Bogus, origin of the term, 417, note.
  • Bonhomme Island, sand-banks at, 15.
  • "Book of Mormon," the. See "Mormon, Book of."
  • Books necessary to the Western traveler, 10.
  • Books" on Mormonism, list of, 203, note.
  • Botany of Utah Territory, 280.
  • Boulders, huge natural pile of, Brigham's Peak, 136.
  • Boulders," in Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
  • Bow and arrow of the North American Indian, 119.
  • Bowery, the, in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
  • Bowery," visit to the, 258.
  • Box-Elder Creek, 136.
  • Boys, Indian, 59.
  • "Brass, City of," of the Arabs, 78.
  • Braves, Indian, 57.
  • Bread made in the prairies, 84.
  • Bread-root of the Western hunters, 182, note.
  • Breakfast in the prairies, 84.
  • Brewery, Utah, 332,
  • Brick-making at Great Salt Lake City, 344, 345.
  • Bridger, Colonel James, the celebrated trapper, 178.
  • Bridger," Fort, 178.
  • Bridger," Range of the Uinta Hills, 176.
  • Bridle and bit used on the prairies, 27.
  • Brigham's Kanyon, 194, 235.
  • Brigham's" Peak, 136.
  • Brigham's" Peak," the driver's story of, 136.
  • "British-English" Mormons on the road to Great Salt Lake City, 137.
  • Brûlé Sioux Indians, their habitat, 98. See Sioux.
  • Brutisch, Giovanni, the Venetian, 485.
  • Bugs, bed, 160, note.
  • Bugs," other, 160, note.
  • Buffalo, absence of the, on the Grand Prairie, 18.
  • Buffalo," annual destruction of, 50.
  • Buffalo," berry, the, cultivated in Great Salt Lake City, 170, note.
  • Buffalo, Britishers and buffalo shooting, 73.
  • Buffalo," extinct westward of the Rocky Mountains, 50.
  • Buffalo, former and present number of, 50.
  • Buffalo," grass, 51.
  • Buffalo," herds of, 48.
  • Buffalo," Indian mode of hunting it, 51, 52.
  • Buffalo," Indian mode of preparing the skins of, 52.
  • Buffalo," its habits, 51.
  • Buffalo," number of robes purchased by the several companies, 49, note.
  • Buffalo, three great families of, 50.
  • Buffalo," uses to which it is put, 51, 52.
  • Buffalo," wild, as compared with tame meat, 49.
  • Bullock, W.T., the Mormon, 419.
  • Bunch-grass, 139.
  • Bunch-grass," its geographical limits, 139.
  • Bunch-grass," proposed acclimatization of, 140.
  • Bundling among the North American Indians, 116.
  • Bundling" antiquity of the practice, 116, note.
  • "Bunk," the, at Lodge-Pole Station, 66.
  • Burnt-Thigh Indians, their habitat, 98.
  • Butte Station, 468.
  • Buttes, Red, trading-post of, 146.
  • Buttes," meaning of the word, 146, note.
  • Butterfield, or American Express, route of the, 3.
  • Butterfield, or American Express, its receipts from government, 4
  • Cache Cave, 134.
  • Cache" Valley, 335.
  • Cacti of the American wilderness, 64.
  • Cactus, intoxicating, 64, note.
  • Calidarium, the Indian, 119.
  • California, establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to, 4.
  • California, roads from Great Salt Lake City to, 452.
  • California," slope and surface of the land of, 8.
  • California," time for setting out for, 138.
  • Calumet, the, regarded as a sacred instrument, 112.
  • Camel corps, proposal for establishing a, for American outpost duty, 46.
  • Camp Floyd, description of, 334,
  • Camp" Floyd," hatred of the Mormons expressed at, 339.
  • Camp Floyd, position of the camp, 446.
  • Camp" Floyd," second visit to, 444
  • Camp" Floyd," the sick certificate, 342.
  • Camp" Floyd," trip to, 331.
  • Camp" Scott, near Fort Bridger, 179.
  • Canadians, French, settled in the Far West, 152.
  • Canis latrans, the, 64.
  • Cannibals, how far the North American Indians are, 117.
  • Cannon River, Indians west of, 96.
  • Card-playing among the North American Indians, 117.
  • Carrington, Albert O., the Mormon, 242.
  • Carrington," Island, 327.
  • Carson City, 494, 496.
  • Carson" City," lawless violence of, 288.
  • Carson" House Station, 189.
  • Carson" Kit, the celebrated guide and Indian interpreter, 178.
  • Carson Lake, 274, 491.
  • Carson" River, 493.
  • Carter, Judge, and his store, 179.
  • Caswall, Rev. Henry, his works on Mormonism, 205, note.
  • Cattle starved in some regions, 138.
  • Cattle" numbers of skeletons seen, 138,
  • Cedar Creek, 334.
  • Cedar" effect of climate upon the growth of the, 41.
  • Cedar" gradually diminishing, 53.
  • Cedar" Island, the first, in the Missouri, 41.
  • Cedar" the name, as used in the United States, 70, note.
  • Ceremony and manners, Indian want of, 118.
  • Chamizo, or greasewood, 158.
  • Chandless, William, his work on Mormonism, 204, note.
  • Cherokees, their present condition, 35.
  • Cherokees," their lodges, 86.
  • Cheyenne Indians, the, 99.
  • Cheyenne" Indians," sign of their tribe, 124.
  • Cheyenne" Indians," their chastity, 117.
  • Cheyenne" Indians," their lodges, 86.
  • Chieftainship among the Indians, 117.
  • Children, Indian fondness for, 103.
  • Children," Indian, 59.
  • Children," of the Mormons, 422–3.
  • Children," of the Prophet, 249.
  • Chimney Rock, the, 74.
  • China-town, Carson River, 496.
  • Chinche, or bug, the, 160, note.
  • "Chip" fires in the prairies, 43.
  • Chipmonk, or Chipmuk, the, 159, note.
  • Chippewas. See Ojibwa Indians.
  • Choctaw Indians, their lodges, 86.
  • Chokop's Pass, 480.
  • Chronology of the most important events recorded in the Book of Mormon, 411.
  • Chugwater, the, 90.
  • Church Butte, geological formation of, 176.
  • Churchill, Fort, 493.
  • Cities, formation of, in Utah Territory, 291.
  • City-Creek Kanyon, 195. ​
  • Climate of Platte Bridge, 137.
  • Climate" of the country near Fort Bridger, 179, 180.
  • Climate" of Utah Territory, 275.
  • Clothing necessary to the Prairie traveler, 10.
  • Coaches, mail, from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4
  • Coaches, materials of which they are made, 12.
  • Coaches," slow rate of traveling, 5.
  • Coaches," the "Concord coach," 12.
  • Coal found on the banks of the Bear and Weber Rivers, and at Silver Creek, 182.
  • Coal in Nebraska, 141.
  • Coal" in Utah Territory, 281.
  • Coal" near Sulphur Creek, 182.
  • Coal" on the banks of the Platte River, 141.
  • Cold Springs, in Kansas, 18
  • Cold" Springs," squatter life at, 19.
  • Cold" Springs," Station, 487.
  • Cold-Water Ranch, 49.
  • Colorado, Rio, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Columbia River, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Comanche Indians, the, 60, note.
  • Comanche" Indians," their lodges, 86.
  • Compass, the prairie, 48.
  • "Concord coach," description of the, 12.
  • Conference, description of a Mormon, 302–9.
  • Constitution of the State of Deserét, 289, note.
  • Cookery, dirty, of Indian squaws, 80.
  • Cookery," bill, in the prairies, 84.
  • Coon's Kanyon, 194.
  • Copperas Springs, 181.
  • Corporation of Great Salt Lake City, 315.
  • Corrals, mode of forming, 76.
  • Corrill, John, his work on Mormonism, 205, note.
  • Cotton grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
  • Cotton-weed, the, 64.
  • Cotton-wood Creek, 30.
  • Cotton-wood" Kanyon, Great, 343.
  • Cotton-wood" Kanyon," Great," celebration of Mormon Independence Day at, 340, note.
  • Cotton-wood Kanyon, Great, timber of, 284, 285.
  • Cotton-wood" Kanyon," Great," visit to, 346.
  • Cotton-wood" Lake, Great, 347.
  • Cotton-wood" Station, in Nebraska, 30, 49.
  • Cotton-wood" tree, the, or Alamo, 32.
  • Cotton-wood" tree," its uses, 32.
  • Cougar, the, or mountain lion, 153, and note.
  • Council Bluffs, the natural crossing of the Missouri, 71, note.
  • Council Hall of the Seventies in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
  • Council, the High, of the Mormons, 401.
  • Counties, list of, of Utah Territory, 291–3.
  • Coureurs des bois, or unlicensed peddlers, 81.
  • Court-house Ridge, the, 72.
  • Court-house" Ridge," description of it, 72.
  • Court-house" in Great Salt Lake City, 417.
  • Court-house" interesting case tried in the, 417.
  • Cox, Daniel, his idea of a water communication between the Missouri and the Columbia Rivers, 162, 163, note.
  • Coyotes, or jackals of the Western World, 64.
  • Coyotes," at Rocky-Bridge Station, 160, 161.
  • Coyotes," in Echo Kanyon, 188
  • Coyotes," near Black's Fork, 176.
  • Cree Indians, their habitat, 100,
  • Creek, Ash-Hollow, 70.
  • Creek," Battle, 447.
  • Creek," Bauchmin's, 189, 190,
  • Creek," Box-Elder, 136,
  • Creek," Cedar, 334.
  • Creek," Cotton-wood, 30.
  • Creek," Deer, 138.
  • Creek," Dry, 483.
  • Creek," Egan's, 183.
  • Creek," Grasshopper, 21.
  • Creek," Horse, 79.
  • Creek," Horseshoe, 163.
  • Creek," Kanyon, Big, 191.
  • Creek," Kanyon," East, 189.
  • Creek," Kiowa, Little, 79.
  • Creek," La Bonté, 135.
  • Creek," Meadow, 451.
  • Creek," Mill, 195.
  • Creek," Muddy, Little, 140.
  • Creek," Nemehaw, Big, 21.
  • Creek," Omaha, or Little Punkin, 71.
  • Creek," Pacific, 166.
  • Creek," Plum, 48.
  • Creek," Quaking Asp, 161.
  • Creek," Sandy, 71.
  • Creek," Sandy," Big, 167.
  • Creek," Sandy," Little, 167.
  • Creek," Sheawit, 482.
  • Creek," Shell, 465, 466.
  • Creek," Silver, 182.
  • Creek," Smith's, 486.
  • Creek," Snow, 140.
  • Creek," Strawberry, 161.
  • Creek," Sulphur, 181.
  • Creek," Thirty-two-mile, 38,
  • Creek," Turkey, 30.
  • Creek," Vermilion, 27.
  • Creek," Walnut, 21.
  • Creek," Willow, 161, 461.
  • Creek," Yellow, 183.
  • Creeks, or "criks" in America, 21.
  • Crickets (Anabrus simplex?), scourge of, in Utah Territory, 284.
  • Crops in Great Salt Lake Valley, 201.
  • Crosby, Judge, 450.
  • Cumming, Hon. A., governor of Great Salt Lake City, 215.
  • Cumming, Hon. A., his impartial discharge of his duties, 216.
  • Curriculum of the Prairie Indians, 107.
  • Cursing and swearing in America, 14,
  • Cynomys Ludovicianus, or prairie-dog, 66.
  • Davies, Elder John, his Mormon works, 214, note.
  • Dakotahs. See Sioux.
  • Dakotah" meaning of the name, 95.
  • Dana, Lieutenant, compagnon de voyage, 8.
  • Dancing, Mormon fondness for, 230.
  • Danite band, account of the, 59.
  • Dark Valley, 60.
  • Davis, Hon. Jefferson, his estimate of the cost of a railway from the Mississippi to the Pacific, 3, note.
  • Dayton, Lysander, the Mormon Bishop, and his wives, 448.
  • Dead, Indian mode of burial of the, 122.
  • Deep-Creek Kanyon, 462.
  • Deep" Creek" Station, 463.
  • Deep" Creek" Valley, 463.
  • Deer Creek, 138.
  • Deer" Creek," establishment at, 139.
  • Deer" kinds of, found in the regions east of the Rocky Mountains, 63.
  • Delaware Indians, account of the, 37.
  • Delaware" Indians," their lodges, 86.
  • Denmark Ward in Great Salt Lake City, 198.
  • Denver City, lawless violence of, 288,
  • Deserét, agricultural society of, 285.
  • Deserét," alphabet, the, 420.
  • Deserét," Store, in Great Salt Lake City, 249.
  • Deserét," the land of the honey-bee, 16),
  • "Deserét News," account of the, 255.
  • Desert, fertility of its eastern and western frontiers, 7.
  • Desert," from Fort Kearney to the base of the Rocky Mountains, 6.
  • Desert mostly uninhabited, T.
  • Desert" the First, 167.
  • Desert" the Great, of Utah Territory, 455, 458.
  • Des Moines River, Indians west of the, 96.
  • Devil's Backbone, the, 147.
  • Devil's" darning-needle, or dragon fiy, 60.
  • Devil's" Gate, the celebrated kanyon of the, 151.
  • Devil's" Hole, the, 458, 459.
  • Devil's" Lake, Indians of, 97.
  • Devil's" Post-office, the, 154,
  • Diamond Springs, 60, 480.
  • Diamond" Springs," tragedy at, 60.
  • Diseases of Utah Territory, 278. ​
  • Diseases to which the Indians are liable, 278.
  • "Divide," the, between the Green River and Black's Fork, 174.
  • "Divide," the, between the Little Blue and Platte Rivers, 38.
  • "Divide," the, between the Platte and Sweet-water Rivers, its sterility, 146.
  • Divorce among the Mormons, 427.
  • Dogs, Indian, 58, 472.
  • Dog-Teutons in the prairies, 62.
  • Dolphin Island, 327.
  • Doxology, Mormon remarks on the fourteen articles of, 387, et seq.
  • Dragon-fly, or devil's darning-needle, 60.
  • Dress, Indian, 57, 59.
  • Dress" of the Mormon fair sex, 227.
  • Drivers of mail-coaches, their immorality, 5.
  • Drivers" or "rippers," the, of the wagon-train, 23.
  • Drought, trials of, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 167.
  • Dry Creek, 483.
  • Dubail, Constant, the woodman, 466.
  • Dug-out, Joe, and his station, 334, 444.
  • Dust-storms in the Valley of the Platte, 75.
  • Dust-storms" of Utah, 276, 450, 451.
  • Dust-storms" on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 168.
  • East Kanyon Creek, 189.
  • Eau qui court, or Niobrara River, 40, 72.
  • Echo Kanyon, 184.
  • Echo" Kanyon," beavers in the torrent-bed of, 187.
  • Echo" Kanyon," Station, 187.
  • Echo" Kanyon," the Mormons' breastworks in, 187.
  • Echo" Kanyon," vegetation of, 187.
  • Education in Deserét and England compared, 545.
  • Education" in Great Salt Lake City, 422, 423, 425.
  • Egan, Major Howard, 453.
  • Egan's Creek, 183.
  • Egan's" Springs, 454, 455.
  • Egan's" Station, 467.
  • Eggs and bacon, a constant dish in the West, 38.
  • Eight-mile-Spring Kanyon, 465.
  • Eight-mile" Springs, 465.
  • Elder, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 402.
  • Elk, the (Cervus Canadensis), habitat of, 68.
  • Emigrants, diseases to which they are liable, 279.
  • Emigrants," Mormon, arrival of, at Great Salt Lake City, 225–6.
  • "Emigration Road" in Kansas, 16,
  • Emigration Kanyon, 193.
  • Emigration" Mormon system of, 295.
  • Emigration" statistics of, 297.
  • Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
  • Endowment" House" mysteries of the, 220.
  • Ensign Peak, spirit of Joseph Smith on, 196.
  • Evening in the prairies, 38.
  • Explorers, list of the principal, of the United States, who have published works on the subject, 171, 172, note.
  • Eye of the Indian, 105.
  • "Eye-opener," an, 52.
  • Faces, Indian, 105, 106.
  • Faith, articles of the Mormon, 387, et seq.
  • Farms, Indian, 477.
  • Farriery of the Indians, 119.
  • Febrile affections in Great Salt Lake City, 279.
  • Feet of the Indians, 104.
  • Fences, "snake," of the West, 188.
  • Feramorz, Colonel, 348.
  • Ferris, B.J. on his work on Mormonism, 206, note.
  • Ferris," Mrs., her work on "The Mormons at Home," 206, 207, note.
  • Ferry, the Lower, over the Platte, 140.
  • Fête at Great Salt Lake City, account of a, 230–2.
  • Fetichism of the North American Indians, 107.
  • "Fever, the Prairie," 22.
  • Fingers considered as a trophy by the Indians, 142, note.
  • Fireflies, or lightning-bugs, 60.
  • Fires, prairie, 29.
  • Fires, prairie, mode of stopping, 29.
  • Fir-trees of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
  • Fish of the streams flowing from the Black Hills, 134.
  • Fish of the Sweetwater, 152.
  • Fish" of the Wasach Lakes, 348.
  • Fish" of Utah Lake, 334.
  • Fish" Springs, 460,
  • Fish" water of Great Salt Lake fatal to, 326.
  • Fiumara. See Arroyo,
  • Floods of the Missouri, 16.
  • Flowers on the banks of La Grande Platte River, 41, 48, 53.
  • Folles Avoines Indians, 96, note.
  • Food prejudices, 65.
  • Foot of Ridge Station, near the Sweetwater, 159.
  • Fort Bridger, 178.
  • Fort" Churchill, 493, 494.
  • Forts, frontier, a camel corps proposed for, 46.
  • Forts," frontier," of the United States described, 41, 42.
  • Forts," frontier," remarks on the army system of outposts in the United States, 43, 44.
  • Fox-River Indians, their tents, 86.
  • Fox-River" the, or Rivière des Puantes, 19.
  • Foxes in Echo Kanyon, 187.
  • Frémont, Colonel, his exploration of the Rocky Mountains, 164.
  • Frémont, Colonel, his traveling proprieties, 149.
  • Frémont," Island, 328.
  • Frémont," Peak, in the Rocky Mountains, 155, 161.
  • Frémont," Peak," its height above sea-level, 164.
  • Frémont," Slough, 53.
  • Frémont," Springs, station at, 53.
  • Frémont," Springs," the model veranda at, 53.
  • Frogtown, or Fairfield, 335.
  • Fruit in the gardens of the Prophet, 269.
  • Fruit" wild, of Utah Territory, 283.
  • Funeral ceremonies of the Sioux Indians, 122.
  • Fustigator, the mammoth, of the American wagoners, 24.
  • Gambling, fondness of the North American Indian for, 117.
  • Game, abundance of, in the Wind-River Mountains, 68, 165.
  • Gamma, or gramma, grass of the slopes west of Fort Laramie, 7.
  • Gardens of the Prophet, in Great Salt Lake City, 269.
  • General Johnston's Pass, 454.
  • Geological formation at Fort Laramie, 90.
  • Geological" formation" of Church Butte, 176.
  • Geological" formation" of Echo Kanyon, 184.
  • Geological" formation" of the banks of the Platte at Snow Creek, 141.
  • Geological formation of the Black Hills, 134.
  • Geological" formation" of the gold diggings, 484.
  • Geological" formation" of the Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, 72.
  • Geological formation of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153.
  • Geological" formation" of the valley of the Green River, 169.
  • Geological formation of Utah Territory, 194.
  • Geological" formation" westward of the fort, 91.
  • Germans in the prairies, their behavior, 62.
  • Gibraltar Gate, 488.
  • "Gift, an Indian," the proverb, 103.
  • Gilston, Jim, of Illinois, 456.
  • Girls, Indian, 59.
  • Gold found in the Wind-River Mountains, 165.
  • Gold" found in Utah Territory, 251.
  • Gold" mines near the Great Salt Lake City, 270, 271.
  • Golden Pass of Emigration Kanyon, 193.
  • Gospel, grotesque accounts of the manner in which the Indians of old received the, 109.
  • Government of the Mormons, 301.
  • Grain, quantity produced in the Valley of Great Salt Lake, 264.
  • Grand Island, in the Platte River. 39.
  • Grand" River, Neosho, or White Water, the Osages settled on the, 34. ​
  • Granite Mountain, 454.
  • Granite" Rock, 462.
  • Grape, the Californian, 345.
  • Grass, bunch, 7.
  • Grass," salt, 148.
  • Grasses of the slopes west of Fort Laramie, 7.
  • Grasshopper Creek, 21.
  • Grasshoppers (Œdipoda corallipes), clouds of, in the prairies, 69.
  • Grasshoppers, ravages of, 69, 70.
  • Grasshoppers," scourge of, in Utah Territory, 284.
  • Grattan, Lieutenant, his fatal fight with the Sioux, 88.
  • Graves of the Mormon emigration route, 174.
  • Grazing-grounds in Utah Territory, 284.
  • Grazing-grounds" of the West, their fertility and freedom from sickness, 7.
  • Greasewood at Black's Fork, 176.
  • Greasewood" the (Obione or Atriplex canescens), 158.
  • Great Salt Lake, account of an excursion to, 322.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," air on the shores of, 34
  • Great" Salt" Lake," bathing-place on, 329.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," buoyancy of, 329.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," history and geography of, 324.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," islands of, 327–8.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," lands immediately about, 330.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," quantity of salt in, 325.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City, Academy of the 7th Ward in, 360.
  • Great Salt Lake City, admirable site of, 196.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Agricultural Society of Desert, 316.
  • Great Salt Lake City, arrival of caravan of emigrants at, 225–6.
  • Great Salt Lake City, cheapness of the necessaries of life at, 320.
  • Great Salt Lake City, coinage of, 356.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" conduct of federal officials at, 421.
  • Great Salt Lake City, corporation of, 315.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Council Hall of the Seventies at, 229.
  • Great Salt Lake City, course of life in, 418–19.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Court-house of, 417.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" crops in the valley of, 201.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Denmark Ward in, 198,
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" departure from, 441–3.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" eastern wall of Great Salt Lake Valley, 195.
  • Great Salt Lake City, education in, 422, 423, 425.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Endowment House at, 220.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" excursions in, 322.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" first view of, 193.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" foundation of the, 288.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" gold mines in Utah, 271.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Governor Cumming, 215.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" hand-labor, articles of, in, 320.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Historian and Recorder's Office in, 419, 426.
  • Great Salt Lake City, houses of, 197, 198.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" industry in, 316.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Lion House at, 246.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" list of articles of industry at, 317–20, note.
  • Great Salt Lake City, militia of, 354–5.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" murders committed in and near, 339.
  • Great Salt Lake City, newspapers published in, 255.
  • Great Salt Lake City, no market-place in, 201.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" prices, 820–1.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" principal schools in, 425.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" promulgation of the Constitution at, 289, note.
  • Great Salt Lake City, public opinion in, 197.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" roads from, to California, 450.
  • Great Salt Lake City, safety of, 224.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Salt Lake House Hotel, 201.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" schools in, 345.
  • Great Salt Lake City, shops in, 217.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Social Hall and fêtes at, 230.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" streets of, 216, 217.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" supply of water in, 216, 217.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Tabernacle at, 219, 220,
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" taxes of, 315.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" Temple Block at, 217-23.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Bee House at, 246.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Bowery at, 220, 258.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" the bulwarks of Zion at, 197.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Penitentiary at, 271.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Prophet's house at, 234, 245–6.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the public and private offices of the Prophet at, 246.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the public library at, 235.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" the River New Jordan, 233.
  • Great" Salt" Lake," City" view of, from the Wasach Mountains, 359.
  • Great Salt Lake City, visit to the Prophet at, 237–8.
  • Green River, formation of the valley of the, 169.
  • Green" River," fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Green" River," its breadth and depth, 171.
  • Green" River," its length, volume, and direction, 171.
  • Green River, its tributaries, 167.
  • Green" River," Macarthy's station on the, 170.
  • Green" River," Mountains, the, 153.
  • Green" River," salmon trout of the, 170.
  • Green" River," Spanish and Indian names of the, 171.
  • Green-River Station, 170, 172.
  • Green" River," wool-producing country in the basin of the, 284.
  • Grounds, Bad, or mauvaises terres of the United States, 6.
  • Grouse, pinnated, 142.
  • Guenot, Louis, his bridge over the Platte, 141.
  • Guese, George, the Cherokee chief, 35.
  • Guittard's Station, 27.
  • Guittard's" Station," the host at, 27.
  • Gunnison, Lieutenant, his work on Mormonism, 203, 204, note.
  • Gunnison, Lieutenant, his resumé of Mormonism, 398.
  • Gunnison, Lieutenant, murder of, 339.
  • Gunnison's Island, 327.
  • Hair, Indian mode of dressing the, 56.
  • Half-breeds, English and French, compared, 80.
  • Half-breeds," women, 80.
  • Halfway House, halt at the, 53.
  • Halfway" House," the store at the, 53.
  • Ham's Fork, 174.
  • Ham's" Fork," the wretched station at, 174, 175.
  • Hand-labor, articles of, in Great Salt Lake City, 320.
  • Hands of the Indians, 104.
  • Hanks, the redoubtable Mr. Ephe, the Danite, 191.
  • Hanks," stories of, 193.
  • Hapsaroke Indians, or Les Corbeaux, 124.
  • Hapsaroke" Indians," sign of the tribe, 124.
  • Harney, General, his defeat of the Brûlé Sioux at Ash Hollow, 70, 89.
  • Harrowgate Springs in the Wasach Mountains, 360.
  • Hat Island, 327.
  • Hawkins's rifles, 9.
  • Hayden, Dr. F.V., his opinion on coal in Nebraska, 141.
  • Heat of the sun beyond Ham's Fork, 176.
  • Heath-hen, the, 142.
  • Hickman, Bill, the Danite, 191, 344.
  • Hierarchy of the Mormons, 399, 403.
  • High Mountain, 458.
  • Historian and Recorder's Office in Great Salt Lake City, 419, 426.
  • Holmes, the ungenial man, 177.
  • Horse Creek, 79.
  • Horse" Creek," breakfast at, 84.
  • Horse" Creek," inmates of the station at, 80, 81.
  • Horse-fly, a green-headed, 168. ​
  • Horseshoe Creek, gold found at, 165.
  • Horseshoe" Station, 91.
  • Horses, Indian, 56, 57-8.
  • Horses," of the Dakotah Indians, 99.
  • Horse-stealing, punishment for, in the Western States, 90, 360.
  • Hotels in Great Salt Lake City, 201.
  • Hotels" in the Far West, 201, note.
  • Hot springs near Great Salt Lake City, 236.
  • Hot" springs" analysis of the water of, 236, note.
  • Houses, materials of, in Great Salt Lake City, 197, 198.
  • Howard, Mr., 457.
  • Humboldt River, 480.
  • Hunkpapa Indians, 98.
  • Hunkpatidan Indians, 97.
  • Hunter, President Bishop, 226.
  • Huntingdon Valley, 480.
  • Hurricanes of Scott's Bluffs, 7S.
  • Hyde, John, his work on Mormonism, 208, note.
  • Ice springs, 158.
  • Ihanktonwan Indians, their habitat and present condition, 97.
  • Immorality of the mail-coach drivers, 5.
  • Independence Day, New, of the Mormons, 251,
  • Independence Day, New, celebration of, 349, note.
  • India, remarks on the army system of outposts in, 43, 45.
  • Indian arms, 57, 119.
  • Indian" arts, 118–19.
  • Indian" boys and girls, 59, 107.
  • Indian" camp, an, 472.
  • Indian" character, 102–3.
  • Indian" creed, few rites and ceremonies of the, 115.
  • Indian" curriculum of the Prairie, 107.
  • Indian" dancing, 110.
  • Indian" departments of the United States, management of the, 132.
  • Indian dress, 57, 59.
  • Indian" farms, 477.
  • Indian" fighting, 43.
  • Indian" half-breeds, 80.
  • Indian" "home," the, 32.
  • Indian" horses, 56, 57–8.
  • Indian" kleptomania, 60, 102, 103.
  • Indian" marriages, 116.
  • Indian" mode of hunting the buffalo and preparing the skins, 51, 52.
  • Indian mode of stampeding animals, 16–7.
  • Indian" mode" of wearing the hair, 56.
  • Indian" names, 115.
  • Indian" population in the middle of the last and present centuries, 99, note.
  • Indian prejudice against speaking, 80.
  • Indian" religion of the, 107.
  • Indian" reservation, distribution of the, 32.
  • Indian" scalping, 112.
  • Indian" skull, form and dimensions of the, 105.
  • Indian" smoking, 110, 111–12.
  • Indian" summer, the, 79, 483.
  • Indian" the name, a misnomer for American aborigines, 55.
  • Indian village, description of the remove of an, 56.
  • Indian" villages and tents, 85.
  • Indian" women, 106.
  • Indians, account of the Pawnees, 36.
  • Indians," best scheme for preserving the race of, 35.
  • Indians," causes which rapidly thin the tribesmen, 34.
  • Indians, difficulties attending the scheme of civilization of the, 36.
  • Indians, effects of alcohol among the various tribes of, 82.
  • Indians, ferocity of, and whites, 60,
  • Indians," grotesque accounts of the manner in which they formerly received the Gospel, 109.
  • Indians, how treated by the United States, 32.
  • Indians," kindness of the Mormons to the, 245.
  • Indians," languages of the northeastern tribes of, 96, note.
  • Indians, Lieutenant Weed's defeat of the Gosh Yutas, 467, 470.
  • Indians, mistaken public opinion of the, and of their ancestors, 55.
  • Indians, proposals for raising native regiments of, 47.
  • Indians, the American philanthropist's mode of civilizing the, 35.
  • Indians, the Comanches, 61, note.
  • Indians," the dignity of chief, 117.
  • Indians," their arrow-poison, 482.
  • Indians," their course of life, 117.
  • Indians," their future considered, 101.
  • Indians," their "home," 32.
  • Indians," their murder of Loscier and Applegate, 484.
  • Indians, their opinion of their own strength, 101.
  • Indians," their progress toward extinction, 102.
  • Indians," their Turanian origin,
  • Indians," the, of Utah Territory, 473.
  • Indians," the squaws, 59.
  • Indians," the Yutas, 474–6.
  • Indians," total number of, on the prairies and the Rocky Mountains, 38.
  • Indians, tribes and sub-tribes of the Sioux, 96.
  • Industry in Great Salt Lake City, 316.
  • Industry" list of articles of, 317–320, note.
  • Intoxicating drink, a new, 24, note.
  • Intoxicating" drink," mode of manufacturing "Indian liquor," 81–2.
  • Intoxicating drink, one made from a cactus, 64, note.
  • Irish women in the West, 175.
  • Iron County, coal and iron found in, 282.
  • Iron" found in Utah Territory, 281.
  • Island, Antelope, or Church, 194, 323, 327.
  • Island," Bonhomme, 15.
  • Island," Carrington, 327.
  • Island," Cedar, the first, in the Missouri, 41.
  • Island," Dolphin, 327.
  • Island," Frémont, 328.
  • Island," Grande, in the Platte River, 39.
  • Island," Gunnison's, 327.
  • Island," Hat, 327.
  • Island," Stansbury, 327.
  • Islets of La Grande Platte River, 40.
  • Itazipko, Sans Arc, or No-Bow Indians, their habitat, 98.
  • Itinerary, the emigrant's, 505.
  • Itinerary," of the mail route from Great Salt Lake City to San Francisco, 511.
  • Jack, the Arapaho Indian, and his squaw, 146, 147.
  • Jackal, the, of the Western world, 64. See Coyote.
  • Jacques, Elder John, his Mormon works, 212, note.
  • James River, Indians of, 97.
  • Jesuitism as a means of civilization of the Indians, 85.
  • Jimsen weed, 111.
  • Jo, St., city of, 12, 15.
  • Johnston's Settlement, 451.
  • Jones, Elder Dan, his Mormon works, 215, note.
  • Jordan, New, its course in the Wasach Mountains, 332.
  • Jordan, New, the river in Great Salt Lake City, 3, 325.
  • "Jornada," or day's march, 167.
  • Junction-House Ranch, 53,
  • Kamas Prairie, 182, and note.
  • Kane, Colonel T.L., account of him, 204, note.
  • Kane," Colonel" T.L.," his work on the Mormons, 204, note.
  • Kansas, a specimen of squatter life in, 19.
  • Kansas," "bleeding," 16.
  • Kansas," "gales," 21.
  • Kansas," prairies of, 17.
  • Kansas," rainy season in, 16.
  • Kansas," shanties in, 18.
  • "Kansas-Nebraska Act," passing of the, 33. ​
  • 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. ​
  • Militia force of the United States, general abstract of the, 336, 337.
  • Milk River, Indians of, 100.
  • Milk weed (Asclepias tuberosa) common in Utah Territory, 167.
  • Milk-sickness of the Western States, 284.
  • Mill Creek, 195.
  • Miller, Captain, of Millersville, 215.
  • Miller's Station, 495.
  • Millersville, on Smith's Fork, 177.
  • Mills, saw, a night passed in one of the, 348.
  • Mills, saw, in the kanyons, 347.
  • Miniswakan Lake, 100.
  • Minnesota Indians, 96, 97.
  • Minnikanye-wozhipu Indians, habitat of the, 98.
  • Mirage, a curious, 47, 48.
  • Mirage, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 164.
  • Missionaries, certificates supplied to, 353, 354, note.
  • Missionaries, from Great Salt Lake City, 353, 354.
  • Missionaries, number of, in Great Britain, 301.
  • Mississippi, the, 15.
  • Mississippi, Indians of the, 96.
  • "Missouri Compromise," the, 33.
  • "Missouri Compromise," the, origin of the trouble which gave rise to the, 33, 34, note.
  • Missouri, establishment of the mail-coach route from, to California and Oregon, 4.
  • Missouri, rainy season in, 16.
  • Missouri River, navigation of the, 15.
  • Missouri River, sand-banks of the, 15.
  • Missouri River, sawyers and snags of the, 15.
  • Missouri River, the Great, 15.
  • Missouri River, the Little, Indians of the, 15.
  • Missouri River, winter season on the, 16.
  • Moccasins, Indian mode of making, 57.
  • Moccasins, use of, to the prairie traveler, 11.
  • Modesty, Mormon, instance of, 268.
  • Mollusks of Utah Territory, 280.
  • Mono Lake, 274.
  • Montagnes Rocheuses, Les, 153, 162.
  • Moonshine Valley, 480.
  • Moore, "Miss," and her ranche, 154.
  • Moore, "Miss," her history, 155.
  • Moose deer (Cervus Alces), habitat of the, 68.
  • Moravianism regarded as a means of civilization of the Indians, 35.
  • Mormon agglomeration of all that is good in all sects, 397, 398.
  • Mormon balls and suppers at Social Hall, 230-2.
  • Mormon Bible, 367.
  • Mormon Bible, contents of the, 368, note.
  • "Mormon, Book of," 367, note.
  • "Mormon, Book of," chronology of the most important events recorded in the, 411.
  • Mormon Conference, description of a, 302-309.
  • Mormon dispensation of Mr. Joseph Smith, 183.
  • Mormon doctrines and covenants, 371.
  • Mormon doxology, remarks on the fourteen articles of the, 387, et seq.
  • Mormon emigrants, 137, 176, 180, 181, 182, 225.
  • Mormon emigrants, miseries of one of the, 174, 175.
  • Mormon emigration, system of, 295.
  • Mormon emigration, the regular track of, 174.
  • Mormon estimate of outfit for the Utah route, 138, note.
  • Mormon feat at Simpson's Hollow, 168.
  • Mormon feat near Green River, 173.
  • Mormon fugitives on the road, 456.
  • Mormon gift of tongues, 268.
  • Mormon government, upon what it is based, 301.
  • Mormon hierarchy, the, 399.
  • Mormon History, chronological abstract of, 548.
  • Mormon lad, a, in the South Pass, 166.
  • Mormon lectures on faith, 371.
  • Mormon materialism, 384.
  • Mormon meaning of the word, 361-2.
  • Mormon meeting-rooms in London and its vicinity, list of, 301, note.
  • Mormon modesty, 268.
  • Mormon names, 227.
  • Mormon neophytes, behavior of the, 228-9.
  • Mormon polygamy, 373, 426, 428, 431, 432.
  • Mormon Prophet, visit to the, 237, et seq.
  • Mormon Saints, dress of the fair, 227.
  • Mormon Scriptures, list of the, 209, note.
  • Mormon shanty, Dawvid Lewis and his dirty, 174, 175.
  • Mormon tolerance, 351.
  • Mormon wagons, trains of, on the road, 137, 176, 180, 181.
  • Mormonism, deep root which it has taken in Great Britain, 301.
  • Mormonism, final remarks on, 441.
  • Mormonism, Lieutenant Gunnison's resumé of, 398.
  • Mormonism, list of works published upon the subject of, 203, note.
  • Mormonism, objections to, 404.
  • Mormonism, sketch of, 361, et seq.
  • Mormonism, what it is not, 403.
  • Mormonland, account of, 272.
  • Mormons, children of the, 423.
  • Mormons, description of their Temple, 514.
  • Mormons, fondness of the, for sleighing, private theatricals, and dancing, 229–31.
  • Mormons, foundation of their city, 288.
  • Mormons, how they regard the United States, 250.
  • Mormons, kindness of the, to the Indians, 245.
  • Mormons, period for, leaving the Mississippi, 138.
  • Mormons, political prospects of the, 352.
  • Mormons, promulgation of their Constitution, 289, note.
  • Mormons, remarks upon the articles of their doxology, 387, et seq.
  • Mormons, sketch of the religion of the, 361.
  • Mormons, tenure by which they hold their lands, 290.
  • Mormons, their belief as to marriages between a Saint and a Gentile, 170, note.
  • Mormons, their complaints against Congress, 289, 290.
  • Mormons, their Emigration Road, 71.
  • Mormons, their hierarchy, 399.
  • Mormons, their materialism, 384.
  • Mormons, their Nauvoo Legion, 354–5.
  • Mormons, their new Independence-day, 251.
  • Mormons, their newspapers, 255.
  • Mormons, their politics, 251.
  • Mormons, their polygamy, 373.
  • Mormons, their punishment for adultery, 252.
  • Mormons, their quasi-military organization on the march, 138.
  • Mormons, their sermons in the Bowery, 260, 264.
  • Mormons, their tithes, 249–50.
  • Morning on the prairies, 131.
  • Motherhood, how regarded in the Western States, 432.
  • Moufflon, the American, 153, 155.
  • Mountain, Big, 190.
  • Mountain, Ensign, 196.
  • Mountain, Little, 192.
  • Mountain Meadow Massacre, 339.
  • Mountain Point, 195, 459.
  • Mountain, Quaking-Asp, 181.
  • Mountain, Rim-Base, 181.
  • Mountain Springs, 462.
  • "Mountaineer," Mormon newspaper, 257.
  • Mountaineers of the West, 81.
  • Mountains, Bear-River, 174.
  • Mountains, Black, 133, 142.
  • Mountains, Granite, 454.
  • Mountains, Green-River, or Sweet-water Hills, 153.
  • Mountains, High, 458.
  • Mountains, Laramie, 91, 134.
  • Mountains, Laramie Peak, 79, 85.
  • Mountains of Utah Territory, singular formation of the, 275.
  • Mountains, Oquirrh, 191, 194, 322.
  • Mountains, Rocky, 153, et seq.
  • Mountains, Traverse, 332.
  • Mountains, Uinta, 176, 178.
  • Mountains, Wasach, 189, 195, 322, 330.
  • Mountains, White, 450.
  • Mountains, Wind-River, 68, 162, 163, 164, 166. ​
  • 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. ​
  • Prairie fever, cause of the, 22.
  • Prairie, fires, the, 29.
  • Prairie, fires, effects of, on the temperature of the air, 79.
  • Prairie hen, heath hen, or pinnated grouse, 142.
  • Prairie, land of the United States, 6.
  • Prairie, monotony of the, 18.
  • Prairie, monotony of the rolling, 69.
  • Prairie, or "perrairey," the Western, peculiarities of the, 17.
  • Prairie, pitch-holes or "chuck-holes" of the, 18.
  • Prairie pony, or mustang, 68, note.
  • Prairie saddle, the, 24, 25.
  • Prairie, skeleton of the earth at the bluffs, 29.
  • Prairie squirrel, the (Spermophilus tredecimlineatus), 159, note.
  • Prairie storm, a, 21.
  • Prairie the grand, 17.
  • "Prairie Traveler," the, of Captain R. B. Marcy, quoted, 4.
  • Prairie trees, progressive decay of the, 69.
  • Prairie turnip, the, 182, note.
  • Prairie "weed," 48.
  • Prairie wolf, or coyote, 64.
  • Prairie, wolf, the, 30.
  • Prairies, alternate puffs of hot and cold winds in the, 79.
  • Prairies, blanched bones on the, 48.
  • Prairies, clouds of grasshoppers in the, 69.
  • Prairies, names of different kinds of, 48.
  • Prairies, the buffalo the "monarch of the," 50.
  • Pratt, Mrs. Belinda M., letter of, on polygamy, 433, et seq.
  • Pratt, Orson, account of, 353.
  • Pratt, Orson, "the Gauge of Philosophy," Mormon works of, 212, note.
  • Pratt, Parley P., Mormon works of, 211, 212, note.
  • Pratt, Parley P., murder of, 340, and note.
  • Prêle River, the, 136.
  • President, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 399.
  • Prices in Great Salt Lake City, 321.
  • Priests, high, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 399.
  • Prophecies of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, 356, note.
  • Protestantism, origin of, 364.
  • Provo City, 189, 219, 333, note.
  • Provo River, 333.
  • Puma, the, 153, note.
  • Punishments, Indian, 103.
  • Punkin Creek, Little, 71.
  • Pyramid Lake, 274.
  • Quaking-Asp Creek, 161.
  • Quaking-Asp Hill, 181.
  • Quaking-Asp (Populus tremuloides), 180.
  • Rabbit-bush, the, 158.
  • Race-course Bluff, 179.
  • Railroad Kanyon, 480.
  • Railroad, Pacific, Mr. Jefferson Davis's estimate of the cost of the, 3, note.
  • Rain-storms at Weber-River Station, 188.
  • Rainy season in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Southern Nebraska, 16.
  • "Ranch," the, at Turkey Creek, 30.
  • Rancho, the, in Mexico and California, 5, note.
  • Rattlesnake bites and their remedies, 156.
  • Rattlesnake Hills, the, 151, 153.
  • Rattlesnakes, 156.
  • Red Butte, 195.
  • Red region, the, 136.
  • Reese's River, 486.
  • Regshaw, Mr., his bridge over the Platte, 140.
  • Reid, Captain Mayne, remarks on his "Wild Huntress," 209, note.
  • Religion of the Indians generally, 107.
  • Religion of the Mormons, sketch of the, 361, et seq.
  • Religion of the Sioux, 103.
  • Religions of the United States, list of, 363, note.
  • Remy, Jules, and Mr. Brenchley, their work on the Mormons, 204, note.
  • Revenge, Indian, 103.
  • Revolvers, value of, 9.
  • Reynal, M., of Horse-Creek Station, 80.
  • Reynal, M., sketch of, and his career, 81.
  • Rice, the wild (Zizania aquatica), 96, note.
  • Richland town extinct, 21.
  • Rifles, Hawkins's, 9.
  • Riggs's, Rev. S. R., dictionary of the Sioux language, 120, 121.
  • River, Assiniboin, 100.
  • River Bank and Stream camping-ground on the Sweetwater, 158.
  • River, Bear, 182, 325.
  • River, Black's Fork, 174, 176, 177.
  • River, Blue, Big, 29.
  • River, Blue Earth, 96.
  • River, Blue, Little, 31, 38.
  • River, Cannon, 96.
  • River, Carson, 493.
  • River, Colorado, 162.
  • River, Columbia, 162.
  • River, Des Moines, 96.
  • River, Fox, 19.
  • River, Frémont's Peak, 153, 161, 164.
  • River, Grand, Neosho, or White-Water, 34.
  • River, Green, 162, 166, 170, 284.
  • River, Ham's Fork, 174.
  • River, Humboldt, 480.
  • River, James, 97.
  • River, Kisiskadjiwan, 100.
  • River, Milk, 100.
  • River, Mississippi, 15, 97.
  • River, Missouri, 15, 97.
  • River, Missouri, Little, 97.
  • River, Muddy Fork, 174.
  • River, New Jordan, 233, 325.
  • River, Niobrara, or Eau qui court, 40, 72.
  • River, Padouca, 60, 63.
  • River, Platte, La Grande, or Nebraska, 39, 60.
  • River, Platte, 162.
  • River, Powder, 97.
  • River, Prêle, 136.
  • River, Reese's, 485, 486.
  • River, Sandy, Big, 30, 169.
  • River, Sandy, Little, 30.
  • River, Sioux, Big, 97.
  • River, Smith's Fork, 176.
  • River, Snake, 162.
  • River, Snowy-Peak, 164.
  • River, Sweetwater, or Pina Pa, 150, 158, 161, 162.
  • River, Timpanogos, 182, 333.
  • River, Weber, 182, 188, 189, 325.
  • River, White-Earth, or Mankizitah, 72.
  • River, Wind, 162.
  • River, Yellow-Stone, 162.
  • Road from Fort Kearney, 47.
  • Road from the Black Hills, 134.
  • Roads from Great Salt Lake City to California, 452.
  • Roads, junction of the Great Salt Lake City and Fort Hall, 167.
  • Robber's Roost Station, 468.
  • Robidoux, Antoine, notice of, 75, note.
  • Robidoux, Fort, 75.
  • Robinson ("Uncle Jack"), 177.
  • Rock, Independence, 148.
  • Rock, Independence, names inscribed on, 149.
  • Rock or Turkey Creek, 30.
  • Rock or Turkey Creek, the "ranch" at, 30.
  • "Rocks" of the West, 19.
  • Rockwell, Orrin Porter, account of, 448-9.
  • Rockwell, Orrin Porter, excellent advice of, 449.
  • Rockwell, Orrin Porter, the Danite, 191.
  • Rocky Mountains, a humble-bee on the topmost summit of the, 165.
  • Rocky Mountains, first view of the, 153.
  • Rocky Mountains, heights of the, 7, 153, et seq.
  • Rocky Mountains, surface of the land on the western slopes of the, 8.
  • Rocky Mountains, temperature on the counterslope of the South Pass of the, 168.
  • Rogers, Colonel, or "Uncle Billy," 471.
  • Rose, the apostate Jew and Mormon, 456.
  • Routes proposed for a Pacific Railroad, 3. ​
  • Routes proposed for a Pacific Railroad, difficulties of, 277.
  • Ruby Valley, 471.
  • Russell, Mr. W. H., and the Pony Express, 28, and note.
  • Russell, Mr. W. H., and the Pony Express, slowness of the transport by, 136.
  • Rush Valley, 451, 453.
  • Sac Indians, tents of the, 86.
  • Sac Indians, the, 19.
  • Saddle, the native Indian, 25.
  • Saddle, the prairie, 24, 25.
  • Sage at Rocky-Bridge Station, 161.
  • Sage hen or prairie-hen, 142.
  • Sage Springs, 486.
  • Sage, wild (artemisia or absinthe), description of, 53, 54.
  • Saleratus Lake, 147, 148.
  • Saleratus Lake, startling appearance of, 148.
  • Salmon trout of the Green River, 170.
  • Salt grass, 148.
  • Salt Lake City, Great. See Great Salt Lake City.
  • Salt Lake, Great. See Great Salt Lake.
  • Salt Lake House Hotel, 201.
  • Salt Lake, Little, 274.
  • Salt, quantity of, in the water of Great Salt Lake, 325–6.
  • Saltpetre not found in Utah Territory, 282.
  • San Francisco, 500.
  • Sand-banks of the Missouri, 15.
  • Sand hills, the tract called the, 70, note.
  • Sand Springs Station, 491.
  • Sandstone at Grasshopper Creek, 21.
  • Sandy Creek, 71.
  • Sandy Creek, Big, or Wágáhongopá, 167.
  • Sandy Creek, Little, 167.
  • Sandy River, Big, 30, 169.
  • Sandy River, Little, 30, 169.
  • Sans Arc Sioux Indians, habitat of the, 98.
  • Sault Ste. Marie, Indians at, 100.
  • Saurians of Utah Territory, 280.
  • Sawyers and snags of the Missouri, 15.
  • Scalping, origin of the custom of, 112.
  • Scalping, considered as a religious rite, 113.
  • Schools in Great Salt Lake City, 345.
  • Schools, principal, 425.
  • Scott's Bluffs, 77.
  • Scott's Bluffs, hurricanes of, 78.
  • Scott's Bluffs, origin of the name, 78.
  • Scythians, scalping rites of the, 112.
  • Seasons, the, in Utah Territory, 277.
  • Seneca City, in Kansas, 21.
  • Seventeen-mile Station, 48.
  • Seventies, the, in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
  • Sevier, Mr., the Mormon, 463.
  • Shanties, 18.
  • Shanties, of Seneca City, 21, 22.
  • Shanties, origin of the word, 18, note.
  • Shanty, a, in Kansas, 19.
  • Shanty, the, at Pacific Springs, 166.
  • Shanty, the dirty, of Ham's Fork, 174, 175.
  • Shawnees, their lodges, 86.
  • Sheawit Creek, 482.
  • Shell Creek, 465, 466.
  • Shops in Great Salt Lake City, 217.
  • Shoshonee Indians, 473–4.
  • Shoshonee Indians, their friendliness to whites, 165.
  • Sibley, Major, his improved tent, 87.
  • Sichangu, Brûlé, or Burnt-Thigh Indians, habitat of the, 98.
  • Sierra Nevada, the, 493.
  • Sign-system of language among the Indians, 123.
  • Silva, Luis, and his wife, 154.
  • Silver found in Utah Territory, 281.
  • Silver, virgin, found in the White Mountains, 450, note.
  • Simpson's Hollow, 168.
  • Simpson's Hollow, feat of the Mormons at, 168.
  • Simpson's Park, 485.
  • Simpson's Pass, 486.
  • Simpson's Road, 481.
  • Sioux Indian, a "buck," 89.
  • Sioux Indian, meaning of the name "Sioux," 95, 96.
  • Sioux Indians, books printed in their tongue, 120, 121.
  • Sioux Indians, character of the, 102.
  • Sioux Indians, constitution of the, 104.
  • Sioux Indians, dependence of the, on the buffalo for subsistence, 51.
  • Sioux Indians, destruction of Lieutenant Grattan and his party by the, 88.
  • Sioux Indians, funeral ceremonies of the, 122.
  • Sioux Indians, future of the, 100, 101.
  • Sioux Indians, habits of the, in former times and at present, 102.
  • Sioux Indians, language of the, 120.
  • Sioux Indians, lodges of the, 86.
  • Sioux Indians, manners and customs of the, 99.
  • Sioux Indians, murder of M. Montalan by the, 91.
  • Sioux Indians, poetry and songs of the, 122.
  • Sioux Indians, present habitat of the, 95.
  • Sioux Indians, principal bands into which the race is divided, 95–98.
  • Sioux Indians, religion of the, 103.
  • Sioux Indians, revenge of the, 103.
  • Sioux Indians, sacred language of the, 122.
  • Sioux Indians, sign of the tribe of, 124.
  • Sioux Indians, skill in archery of the, 120.
  • Sioux Indians, the Brûlé, their defeat at Ash Hollow, 70.
  • Sioux Indians, women of the, 103.
  • Sioux River, Big, 97.
  • Sisahapa, or Blackfeet Indians, 98.
  • Sisitonwan Indians, habitat of the, 96.
  • Skins, prices of, at Laramie City, 88.
  • Skull of the Indian, its form and dimensions, 105.
  • Skull Valley, 454.
  • Skunk, the, 189.
  • Slade, the redoubtable, 92, 173.
  • Slavery legalized in Utah, 243.
  • Sleighing in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
  • Smith, Captain John, the Mormon patriarch, 180.
  • Smith, George A., the Mormon apostle, account of, 241.
  • Smith, Joseph, account of the martyrdom of, 517.
  • Smith, Joseph, his works, 209, 210, note.
  • Smith, Joseph, his second son David, 241.
  • Smith, Joseph, his son Joseph, of Nauvoo, 240.
  • Smith, Joseph, vindicated, 405–6.
  • Smith, Mrs. M. E. V., her works on Mormonism, 207, 208, note.
  • Smith's Creek, 486.
  • Smith's Fork, 176.
  • Smoking among the American Indians, 110.
  • Smoking material of the Wild Man of the North, 31.
  • Smoky Valley, 484.
  • Smoot, Bishop Abraham O., his address in the Bowery, 260.
  • "Smudge," a, before sleep, 165.
  • Snags and sawyers of the Missouri, 15.
  • Snake Indians at Ham's Fork, 174.
  • Snake Indians, lodges of the, 86.
  • Snake River, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Snake River, Indian name for, 167, note.
  • Snakeroots, 156, 157, note.
  • Snow Creek, 140.
  • Snow Creek, country about, 141, 142.
  • Snow, Lorenzo, his Mormon works, 212, note.
  • Snowy Peak, 164.
  • Social Hall in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
  • Social Hall, fêtes at, 230, 231.
  • Soda, carbonate of, in Saleratus Lake, 147, and note.
  • Soda, or Beer Springs, 179.
  • Soil at Fort Laramie, 90.
  • Soil beyond the immediate banks of La Grande Platte River, 41.
  • Soil near Plum Ranche, on the Platte River, 48.
  • Soil of Big Sandy River, 169.
  • Soil of the bench-land of Great Salt Lake Valley, 195. ​
  • 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. ​
  • 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. ​
  • Women, motherhood, how regarded in the Western States, 432.
  • Women of the Mormons, 228, 430.
  • Women" of the Sioux Indians, 103.
  • Women" the half-breed, 80.
  • Women" their separation from the men at meals, 117.
  • Woodruff, Willford, the Mormon apostle, 242.
  • Woodruff," Willford," his garden, 360.
  • Woods, Lake of the, Indians of the, 100.
  • Woodson, Colonel S.H., his establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4.
  • Wool-producing country in the basin of the Green River, 284.
  • Yellow Creek, 183.
  • Yellow" Creek," Hill, 184.
  • Yellow" Stone River, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Yoke, the, of the great American Sahara, 23.
  • Yosemite, or Yohamite Falls, 500.
  • Young, Brigham, President, extract from one of his sermons, 17, note.
  • Young, Brigham, address of, at the Conference, 305–6.
  • Young, Brigham, address of, in the Bowery, 261.
  • Young," Brigham," alleged personal fear of, 226.
  • Young," Brigham," character of, 239–245.
  • Young," Brigham," gardens of, 269.
  • Young," Brigham," his opinion of woman's counsel, 207, note.
  • Young, Brigham, house of, 234.
  • Young," Brigham," mode of life of, 240, 242.
  • Young," Brigham," nephew of the Prophet, 137.
  • Young," Brigham," personal appearance of, 238–9.
  • Young," Brigham," remarks of, on the "Indian Wars," 243.
  • Young, Brigham, visit to, 237–8.
  • Young," Brigham," wealth of, 242.
  • Young," Brigham," wives and children of, 240.
  • Yuta Indians, "they who live on mountains," sign of their tribe, 124, 477.
  • Yuta Indians, a little war with the, 461.
  • Yuta" Indians," kindness of the Mormons to the, 245.
  • Yuta" Indians," graves of the, 122.
  • Zizania aquatica, 96, note.

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