INDEX
- A
- Acadia, [130]
- Acoma, [114]
- Acuco, [112]
- Adiazan stock, location of, [68]
- Adams River, [250]
- Adobe concrete, [68]
- Adopted men become chiefs, [84]
- Adoption, Amerind system of, [84]
- Agent cuts off native's ears, [269]
- Agriculture, early, in New Mexico, [267]
- Aguardiente, [268]
- Aguilar goes north of Mendocino to great river, [142]
- Alarçon, Hernando de, goes up the coast, [40];
- discovers the Colorado, [111]
- Alaska boundary, [254]
- Alcaraz, Captain, meets Cabeza de Vaca, [101]
- Alcohol, [94];
- sold to natives, [179]
- Algonquian stock, [63];
- range of, [64]
- Allencaster, governor of New Mexico, [191]
- Alta California, [120];
- Missions first planted there, [122]
- Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, [2], [104], [106], [107], [108]-[111]
- Ameies, villages of, found by Espejo, [114]
- American Fur Company, organised, [197];
- American River, gold discovery on, [308]
- Americans attack Juan José, [265];
- barred from Oregon, [289]
- American settlers in California, [308];
- ships on the Pacific coast, [146]
- Amerind, [132];
- adoption, [84];
- attacks on Pacific Railway constructors, [330];
- believed by the Mormons to be descended from some of those dispersed at the Tower of Babel, [304];
- beverages, [70];
- bread, [72];
- ceremonials, [72];
- character of, [12], [56];
- colour of, [54];
- cooking, how done, [72];
- cruelty, [100];
- destroy railway property, [330];
- domestic animals of, [56];
- dress, [88];
- dwellings, [68];
- eating of human flesh, [79];
- explanation of term, [54];
- fear of camera, [92];
- hospitality, [82];
- jargons, [63];
- kindness of, [88];
- knowledge of the Wilderness, [89], [168];
- knowledge, [102];
- languages, [61];
- linguistic map, [62];
- manufactures, [70];
- map drawing, [89];
- marriage, [82];
- method of expressing astonishment, [292];
- musical instruments of, [72];
- of Louisiana, goes to the Columbia, [140];
- of the Wilderness, [63];
- sense of humour, [93];
- sign language, [62];
- shooters, [278];
- women, place of, [77]
- Amerinds, classification by language, [60];
- removed west of the Mississippi, [60];
- shot for sport, [277], [278], [280];
- subsistence of, [75];
- three conditions of, [75];
- titles to railway lands extinguished, [329];
- tobacco, kinds of, [79];
- traits, [57];
- treatment of, by whites, [60], [243];
- understanding of territorial limits of, [89];
- unit of organisation, [82];
- winter life of, [92];
- words derived from languages of, [79]
- Ames monument, [334]
- Anian, Strait of, [142];
- a myth, [147]
- Anza, Captain, journey of, [124];
- to San Francisco Bay, [124]
- Apache, [266].
- Apache tribe, where classed, [61], [66];
- Apaches, kill one of Pattie advance party, [248];
- become deadly enemies of Americans, [265]
- Arapaho tribe, where classed, [64];
- Arc tribe, [139]
- Area owned by United States after Mexican treaty of 1848, [301]
- Arikara tribe, where classed, [64]
- Arkansas River, [6];
- Armijo, governor of New Mexico, [265];
- imposes heavy tax on American goods, [238]
- Army sent to Utah, [310]
- Arroyo del Cibolo, named by Escalante, [36]
- Asa, at the mouth of the Virgin, helps Powell, [325]
- Ashley, [232], [271];
- arrives at St. Louis, [242];
- battle with Arikaras, [234];
- becomes rich, [242];
- boats used by, [238];
- builds fort on the Yellowstone, [233];
- canyons traversed by, [295];
- comes out into Brown's Park, [240];
- decade, the, [233];
- descends Green River through Red Canyon, [238];
- elected member of Congress, [232], [244];
- Fall, [240];
- first to navigate Green River, [238];
- goes to Salt Lake, [240];
- his methods, [259];
- home in St. Louis, [244];
- Lake, [242];
- loses boats, [239];
- made a brigadier-general, [232];
- made lieutenant-governor, [232];
- meets General Atkinson, [242];
- meets Ogden at Salt Lake, [240];
- meets Provost in Brown's Park, [240];
- name record in Red Canyon, facsimile of, [240];
- organisation, [258];
- parts from his men, [244];
- second trip to the mountains, [242];
- sells out, [244];
- takes cannon to Utah Lake, [272];
- through Flaming Gorge, [294];
- writes his name in Red Canyon, [240]
- Assiniboine, British trading posts on, [158]
- Assiniboine, steamboat, [285]
- Asuncion, Bahia de la, [142]
- Astor, John Jacob, his opinion of the sale of Astoria, [219];
- Astoria, Irving's work, cited, [287]
- Astoria, Captain Biddle takes possession, [219];
- Astronomer of Ingolstadt, [124]
- Athabasca country, changes in, [34]
- Athapascan stock, range of, [64]
- Atkinson, General, [242]
- Atole, Mexican drink, [268]
- Attacapan stock, location of, [68]
- Austin leads in the colonisation of Texas, [298]
- B
- Bac, San Xavier del, Mission of, [124]
- Bahia de la Asuncion, [142]
- Baird to Santa Fé, 1812, [257]
- Balboa, cited by Frémont, [300]
- Baldwin, Doctor, with Long, [223]
- Bandelier, A. F., paper;
- Bar of the Columbia, [142]
- Baranof, Hunt visits, [215];
- Castle, [215]
- Battle, first, between natives and Europeans in the Wilderness, [110];
- Battles of the Fur Companies, [240];
- of the Wilderness compared with Amerind warfare, [72]
- Beadle, J. H., ferried over Colorado by Lee, [318]
- Beale, E. F., [316]
- Beale's Road, [316]
- Bear River, search for mouth of, [242]
- Beauharnois, [139]
- Beaver, anatomy, [16];
- as a pet, [31];
- bait, [29];
- bank burrows, [17];
- Bradbury's views on their tree felling, [27];
- capture of, in bank burrows, [31];
- castoreum, [27];
- chips, [25];
- colour of, [13];
- cry of, [31];
- dams, [18], [21];
- disappearance, [28], [244], [273], [294], [302], [304];
- education of the young, [28];
- explanation of half-cut trees, [28];
- family, members of, [31];
- food, [16];
- for an emblem, [31];
- form of dams, [21];
- fur of, [13];
- genus of, [16];
- incentive to exploration, [12];
- in the water, [24];
- intellectuality, [17];
- intelligence, [13];
- kind of trees chosen, [27];
- lodges, construction of, [21];
- lodges chopped open in winter, [31];
- meadows, [24];
- meat, [25];
- mental qualities, [16];
- methods, [16];
- method of building, [18];
- methods of capture other than with traps, [29]-[31];
- method of cutting, [25];
- musk, muskbogs, [27];
- nature of, [31];
- never found in deep canyons, [17];
- never steps backwards, [31];
- numbers of, [12];
- number trapped in a single night, [15], [18];
- on Green River in 1871, [24];
- on upper Missouri, Lewis and Clark Expedition, [164];
- order to which it belongs, [13];
- outcast, [31];
- ponds, [21];
- reduction of numbers, [26];
- sample of tree-gnawing, [26];
- search for beaver grounds, [29];
- signal of alarm, [24];
- size of, [13];
- size of trees felled, [27];
- spillways, [20];
- tail, description of, [24];
- tail soup, [25];
- taming of, [31];
- testing for traps, [28];
- time able to remain under water, [27];
- time required to fell tree, [27];
- trappers' stories, [21];
- trapping, profits of, [15];
- trapping responsible for breaking trails, [304];
- traps, [28];
- weight of, [13];
- winter food, [21];
- works executed by, [16]
- Beaver, Astoria supply ship, [215]
- Beaver Dam Mountains, [309]
- Becknell, William, goes to Santa Fé, 1821, [257];
- Beckwourth, James P., [263];
- Beckwourth and Smith make a raid, [264]
- Bell, J. R., Captain, with Long, [223]
- Beltran, Friar, goes to New Mexico, [114]
- Benavides, route of, [116]
- Benton, Senator, meets Frémont, [300]
- Bering explores from Kamtchatka east across the sea, [140]
- Berkeley, Hon. Grantley F., his description of marrow-bones, [41];
- his love for marrow, [41]
- Bernalillo as the site of Tiguex, [114]
- Berthoud, E. L., explores road from Denver to Salt Lake, [315];
- tries to explore Green River, [314]
- Beverages of Amerinds, [70]
- Bible, the Mormon view of it, [304]
- Biddle, Captain, takes formal possession of Astoria, [219]
- Bidwell, Captain, cited, [278]
- Bienville founds New Orleans, [138]
- Bierstadt, picture of buffalo hunting referred to, [40]
- Big Medicine Canoe, [285]
- Big Thunder Canoe, [285]
- Big trees, [8], [9]
- Bighorn Mountains, [207]
- Bijeau, Joseph, guide to Long, [226]
- Bill Williams Fork, [117]
- Bison Americanus, [32]
- Bisonte, Spanish word for buffalo, [34]
- Bitter Root Range, Lewis and Clark traverse it, [169]
- Bitter Root River, [169]
- Black Canyon, Ives goes to head of, [317];
- Johnson takes steamer to head of, [317]
- Black Hills, [207];
- Parker goes that way, [287]
- Blackfeet a scourge, [244];
- Blankets of buffalo wool woven by Osages, [50]
- Blossom, British war ship, carries Prevost to Astoria, [219]
- Blue Mountains, [281];
- Boats used by Ashley, [238]
- Bodies destroyed by wolves and dogs, [99]
- Boiling Spring Creek, [225]
- Bold, The, Crow chief, captures Meek, [291];
- his opinion of the whites, [291]
- Bonneville, Captain, birth, education, etc., [270], [272];
- as a manager, [271];
- portrait of, [271];
- granted leave of absence, [272];
- starts, [272];
- outfit, [272];
- his waggons not the first to cross the plains, [272];
- did not lose a man, [272];
- route of, [272];
- takes first waggons as far as Green River, [272];
- builds fort at Green River, [272];
- fails to trade with natives, [273];
- goes to Salmon River, [274];
- goes to Snake River, [274];
- rendezvous in Green River Valley, [275];
- sends furs to St. Louis, [275];
- ignores orders, [276];
- dropped from the army, [276];
- claims discovery that Buenaventura River was a myth, [280];
- crosses Blue Mountains, [281];
- at Nez Perce camp, [281];
- goes to the Columbia, [281];
- cures chief's daughter, [281];
- at Fort Walla Walla, [281];
- goes again to the Columbia, [282];
- recrosses Blue Mountains, [282], [283];
- refused provisions by Hudson Bay Company, [282];
- declines guidance of Hudson Bay men, [282];
- back at Portneuf, [282];
- fails to get a footing on the Columbia, [283];
- refused provisions a second time at Walla Walla, [284];
- applies his name to Salt Lake, [284];
- his name given to an ancient sea, [284];
- adjusts his affairs and leaves the Wilderness, [284];
- his failure, [284];
- his maps copied, [284];
- reinstated, [284];
- serves in Seminole and Mexican wars, [284];
- made brevet brigadier-general, [284];
- dies, [284];
- Irving's work cited, [287]
- Bonneville Lake, an ancient sea, [284]
- Book of Mormon, [304];
- of Doctrine and Covenants, [305]
- Boone, Daniel, age of, [193];
- at La Charette, [193]
- Boundary, British desire to make Columbia River the, [290];
- Brackenridge, Henry, with Lisa, [206];
- his opinion of Lisa, [221]
- Bradbury, goes with Hunt, [204];
- Bridger, James, [232];
- British-American agreement as to Oregon renewed, [253]
- British, on Hudson Bay, [136];
- Broughton goes up the Columbia, [170]
- Brown bear, fight with, [164]
- Brown's Hole, [238]
- Brown's Park, [238];
- position of, [295]
- Browne, P. T., killed by natives, [330]
- Buenaventura, Escalante crosses it, [124];
- Buffalo, [32];
- numbers of, [10], [32];
- range of, [10], [34];
- disappearing, [32], [302];
- in Montezuma's menagerie, [32];
- word for, in Isleta dialect, [34];
- oscillation of whole mass of buffalo, [34];
- when first in Athabasca country, [34];
- not migratory, [34];
- Coronado sees immense herds, [34];
- on Pecos River, [34];
- sees robes at first villages, [34];
- city of, named after, [35];
- bones above mastodon bones, [35];
- bones at salt licks of Ohio valley, and at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, [35];
- in Saskatchewan country, [35];
- eastern limit of, [35];
- Albert Gallatin lives on buffalo meat, [35];
- remains not found in mounds of Mississippi valley, [35];
- not found on Moundbuilder pipes, [35];
- probability that it would have gone to Alaska, [35];
- in Arizona, [36];
- limit on west, [36];
- no mention of it by Lewis and Clark west of Rocky Mountains, [36];
- rock picture of, [36];
- seen by Escalante on White River, [36];
- skull found at Gunnison, [37];
- no mention of, by Espejo or Oñate west of the Rio Grande, [37];
- south-western limit, [37];
- did not cross Rocky Mountains north of 57 degrees, [37];
- crosses to Green and Columbia,37;
- in Missouri, [37];
- earliest published drawing of, [38];
- fossil remains, [38];
- painted by Catlin, [38];
- prairie buffalo, [38];
- wood buffalo, [38];
- western range, [38];
- by Bierstadt, [40];
- wanton killing, [42];
- herd, advance of, [44];
- herds dashed to death, [44];
- drowned in river, [44];
- shooting from railway trains, [44];
- methods of hunting the, [45];
- corral, [46];
- dashed over cliff, [46];
- hides, process of tanning, [48];
- hides, value of, [48];
- hunting by Washington Irving, [48];
- number of robes sent to market, [48];
- stampede, [49];
- wallows, [50];
- wool woven into blankets by Osages, [50];
- dance, [51];
- easily domesticated, [51];
- white cow skin held sacred, [51];
- calf dangerous, [52];
- method of forcing to follow horse, [52];
- as an emblem, [53];
- followed by wolves, [53];
- Amerind failure to domesticate, [56];
- blood for drinking water, [79];
- seen by Espejo, [116];
- on upper Missouri, Lewis and Clark, [164]
- Buildings at railway terminals, [332]
- Burr, Aaron, [184]
- Butler, description of northland, [40];
- quoted, [146]
- C
- Cabeza de Vaca, [2];
- Cabrillo coasts north along California, and dies, [119]
- Cache, definition of, [81]
- Cactus, blossoms of, [10]
- Caddo tribe, where classed, [64]
- Caddoan stock, location of, [63]
- Caldron Linn, [210], [216]
- California, Gulf of, [4];
- Californian stocks, [68]
- Callville, Rodgers takes steamer to Callville, [317]
- Campbell, Robert (name also given by some, Richard), [242];
- Canadian voyageur, [129], [147]
- Canyon, Split Mountain, Whirlpool, [294];
- Canyons of the Colorado, barrier of, [316], [322];
- the final problem, [320]
- Cape Disappointment, [148]
- Caravans of the Santa Fé Trail, [258], [259];
- methods of forming camp, [260]
- Cardenas, goes to Tusayan, [110];
- Carretas, Mexican carts, [267]
- Carson, Alexander, killed Sioux for fun, [58];
- with W. P. Hunt, [204]
- Carson, Kit (Christopher), [232], [249], [254];
- Carthage Jail, Joseph Smith murdered there, [305]
- Cartier, discovers Newfoundland, [128];
- Carver, Jonathan, [180];
- tells of the river Oregon, [140]
- Casa Grande, ruins of, [68];
- Kino first to see, [120]
- Cascade range, [6]
- Casement, J. S., chief contractor Union Pacific Railway, [330], [337];
- Dan, [337]
- Castoreum, musky secretion of beaver, [27];
- Cataract Canyon on the Colorado River, [324];
- name carved there, [296]
- Catholics in the northern Wilderness, [308]
- Catlin, painted buffalo, etc., [38];
- on steamer Yellowstone, [285]
- Cavelier, Robert, Sieur de la Salle, [133]
- Central Pacific Railway, [328]
- Cerré, with Bonneville, [272]
- Chaboillez, Charles, [158];
- sent note to Lewis, [163]
- Chaboneau, interpreter to Lewis and Clark, [163];
- Creek, [163]
- Chambers to Santa Fé in 1812, [257]
- Chamita, site of Oñate's first settlement, [130]
- Champlain, founds Quebec, [130];
- goes westward, [130]
- Chamuscado enters New Mexico, [114]
- Charles, Fort, [151]
- Chepewyan, Fort, founded, [147]
- Cheyenne, tribe, where classed, [64];
- town of, [334]
- Chichilticalli, [110]
- Chihuahua, Pike taken to Salcedo's headquarters there, [192]
- Chittimachan, stock, location of, [67]
- Chittenden, H. M., on Bonneville, [270];
- Children, treatment of, by Amerinds, [85]
- Chinook jargon, [63]
- Chippewa tribe, where classed, [63]
- Chouteau, Auguste, [174], [194]
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, [304]
- Cibola, Seven Cities of, [110], [113]
- Cibola, cows of, [34];
- why so called, [34]
- Cicuye, [112]
- Cimarron River, [257]
- Claims of the various Powers in North America, [144]
- Clan, [82];
- Clappine drowned, [210]
- Clark, Chaboneau, and Sacajawea nearly lost, [166]
- Clark, George Rogers, [153], [157]
- Clark, William, to go with Lewis, [157];
- Clarke hangs a Nez Perce, [243]
- Clatsop, Fort, [170], [196]
- Clyburn, his dash for life, [245];
- walks to Council Bluffs, [245]
- Coahuiltecan stock, location of, [67]
- Coast range, [8]
- Color of buffalo, [38]
- Colorado, City, [224];
- Colorado River, canyons, [4];
- canyons a barrier, [316];
- canyons avoided, [17];
- crossed with difficulty, [314];
- Derby explores to Yuma, [315];
- final problem, [320];
- first steamer on, [315];
- headwaters of, [4];
- length of, [4];
- map showing Marble-Grand Canyon, [326];
- Oñate arrived at it, [116];
- only one way to explore it, [314];
- point where Powell's men left him, [326];
- Powell desires to explore it, [320];
- remained unknown till Powell, [18];
- Sumner and Hawkins the only men to go all the way from Green River Valley to tidewater, [325];
- the close canyons, [322];
- tidal bore, [249];
- unbroken, [250], [314];
- valley, [6];
- verticality of walls, [324]
- Colorado River, Little, [116]
- Colorado, steamboat, [315]
- Colter, his race for life, [194];
- Columbia River, Aguilar at mouth of, [142];
- Columbia, ship, [4], [150]
- Comanche, tribe, where classed, [63];
- Comal (comalli), [267]
- Compagnie d'Orient, [138]
- Conception River, name applied to the Mississippi, [133]
- Concrete made with clay and gravel, [68]
- Conejos, Rio, Pike builds fort there, [189]
- Conflicting territorial claims, [155]
- Congress, generosity of, [303];
- passes railway bill, [328]
- Constitution, ship, sent to convoy the Tonquin, [199]
- Continental divide, [2]
- Contractor, chief, of Union Pacific Railway, [330]
- Cook, Captain, doubts existence of North-west Passage, [148]
- Cooper goes to Santa Fé in 1822, [257]
- Copper mines in New Mexico, [267]
- Corazones, Valle de los (Valley of the Hearts), [107]
- Coronado, Francis Vasquez de, [109];
- Corralling buffalo, [46]
- Cotton cultivated, [93]
- Coues, discovers Fowler's journal, [235];
- suggestion as to Pike's real intentions, [184]
- Council Bluffs, [222];
- Clyburn walks there, [245]
- Coureurs de bois, [136]
- Cree tribe, where classed, [63]
- Creek tribe receive white refugees, [262]
- Crook, General, [266]
- Crooks, Ramsay, with Wilson Price Hunt, [205]
- Crooks, rejoins Hunt, [212];
- starts back, [210]
- Crossing of the Fathers (El Vado de los Padres), [125];
- Crow chief's opinion of the whites, [291]
- Crow method of truce conference, [293]
- Crow tribe, where classed, [61]
- Crozat, Antoine, grant to, [138]
- Cruelty of Amerinds, [100]
- Cruz, Friar Juan de la, [114]
- Cruzatte accidentally shoots Lewis, [174]
- Cruzatte's post, [160]
- Cunames, town found by Espejo on the Puerco, [114]
- Currant Creek, Pike camps at mouth of, [188]
- D
- Dakota, tribe, where classed, [61];
- tipi, [68]
- Davis in the Far North, [131]
- Dawson killed by a white bear, [235]
- Day, John, reduced to a skeleton, [212];
- dies, [216]
- Dead Sea of America, [304], [305]
- Deception Bay, [148]
- Dellenbaugh, Mount, [324]
- Denver to Salt Lake, road explored, [315]
- Derby, Lieutenant, explores Colorado up to Yuma, [315]
- Deseret, State of, [305], [308]
- De Smet, Father, [308]
- Desolation, Canyon of, [322]
- De Soto. See Soto.
- Diamond Creek, [317]
- Diaz, Melchior, sent to reconnoitre, [109];
- Dickson met by Lewis and Clark, [174]
- Dillon, Sidney, [333]
- Disappointment, Cape, [148]
- Diseases, ravages of, [97]
- Disorder at railway terminals, [336]
- Dixon, [148]
- Dixon and Hancock, [194]
- Dodge, General, [336];
- chief engineer Union Pacific Railway, [330]
- Dog, the only domestic animal of the Amerind of North America, [56];
- used as food, [77]
- Dolores Mission, Sonora, Mexico, [120]
- Domesticating buffalo, [51]
- Dorantes, Andreas, [106]
- Dorion, [161];
- Dougherty, one of Pike's men, freezes his feet, [190]
- Drake on California coast, [119]
- Drake's Bay, [119]
- Drewyer, interpreter for Lewis and Clark, [163]
- Drouillard, interpreter for Lewis and Clark, [163]
- Drunkenness at railway terminals, [332]
- Duff, John, [333]
- Dugout house, [332]
- Dunbar, [181]
- Dupratz, story of great western river heard by him, [140]
- Durant, Doctor, [336]
- Dutch at New York, [132]
- E
- Echo Park, [294]
- El Real de Dolores, gold mine in New Mexico, [267]
- El Vado de los Padres (the Crossing of the Fathers), [125]
- Engineer Cantonment, [222]
- Entrails of animals eaten raw, [79]
- Escalante, buffalo seen by him on White River near Green River, [36];
- Escalona, Luis de, remains in New Mexico, [113]
- Eskimauan stock, [66]
- Esmeralda, steamboat, goes up the Colorado, [317]
- Espejo, Antonio de, goes to New Mexico, [114];
- Espiritu Santo, Rio de, [104]
- Estevan, companion of Cabeza de Vaca, [106];
- Evangeline, Longfellow's poem, cited, [130]
- Expedition of Lewis and Clark, [157], [158]
- Expedition of Villazur toward the Missouri in 1720, [117]
- Exploration of the Colorado by Ives, [317]
- Explorations of the Californian coast, [119]
- Explorer, The, Ives's steamboat, [317];
- picture of, [316]
- F
- Falls of the Missouri, [166]
- Faith Promoting Series, Books of the Mormon Church, [313]
- Farnham cited, [295]
- Father de Smet, [308]
- Ferrelo explores coast of Oregon, [119]
- Fidler, Peter, [160];
- goes south-west from Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains, [151]
- Fields, Reuben, with Lewis and Clark, kills a Blackfoot, [172]
- First, highway to the Wilderness, [130];
- Fitzpatrick, with Ashley, [234];
- guides Parker, [287]
- Flaming Gorge, [238];
- first of the canyons below Green River Valley, on Green River, [234]
- Florida, [127];
- Floyd, Sergeant, death of, [162]
- Fontaine qui Bouille, Boiling Spring Creek, [186];
- Fontenelle guides Parker, [287]
- Forsyth, Thomas, opinion of methods of treating natives, [269];
- tells of abuse of natives, [269]
- Fort, Chepewyan, [147];
- Fort Yuma, Derby explores river to, [325];
- Sumner and Hawkins go there, [325]
- Forty-ninth parallel boundary, [219]
- Forty-second parallel boundary, [220]
- Fossil remains of buffalo, [38]
- Fowler, Jacob, builds first house by an American at Pueblo, [235];
- Fowler and Glenn, go to Taos, [235];
- meet McKnight, Chambers, and Baird, who were imprisoned in Mexico, [257]
- Foy killed by Blackfeet, [274]
- Fraeb hunts through the Rocky Mountains, [280]
- France loses footing on the continent, [141]
- Franciscan Order supersedes the Jesuit in California, [122]
- Francis La Flesche, quoted, [89]
- Franklin, Missouri, starting-point of Santa Fé Trail, [257]
- Fraser's fort, [197], [198]
- Fraser River, [148]
- Frémont, John C., [225], [271], [298], [303], [304], [308]
- French, advance by the St. Lawrence route, [129];
- Frontenac, [132]
- Fuca, Juan de, [119];
- Strait of, supposed to go through to Atlantic, [142]
- Fulton, [222]
- Fur business still great, [304]
- Fur companies, battles of, [240]
- Furs confiscated, [253]
- Fur trade, [145];
- rivalry, [286]
- G
- Gadsden purchase, [315]
- Gallatin, Albert, his classification of Amerinds by language, [60];
- cited, [284]
- Gallatin River, [168]
- Garces, at the Colorado, [124];
- Gate of Lodore, [294]
- General Jesup, steamboat, [315]
- George, Point, [200]
- Geronimo, [266]
- Gila, trapping on the, [248], [255], [269]
- Glen, Robert, [226]
- Glenn and Fowler, go to Taos, [235];
- Glenn, Hugh, to Santa Fé, [235];
- builds first American house at Pueblo, first in Colorado, [235]
- Golden Gate, [119]
- Gold, mines in New Mexico, [267];
- Goodman leaves the Powell party, [322]
- Government, aid to science, [303];
- Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay, or the Hudson Bay Company, [136]
- Grafton, Mormons settle there, [313]
- Graham, Lieutenant, takes Long's steamer down, [222]
- Grande Ronde, the valley of, Bonneville arrives there, [281]
- Grand Fork of the Arkansas, [185]
- Grand Island, town of, [334]
- Grand Pawnee war party, [185]
- Grand Peak, the, of Pike, or Pike's Peak, [186]
- Grand River, Powell arrives at its mouth, [322]
- Grand Wash, Hamblin crosses Colorado there, [317];
- Powell arrives there, [324]
- Grave of Soto, [127]
- Gray Canyon, [322]
- Gray, Captain Robert, [4];
- Great Basin, location of, [6];
- southern rim of, [6]
- Great Britain acquires Canada, [141]
- Great Britain and the United States agree temporarily as to North-west Territory, [219]
- Great Salt Lake, [304]
- Great Slave Lake discovered by Hearne, [147]
- Greeley, Lewis, accompanies Hamblin to Moki Towns, [318]
- Greenhow, Robert, cited, [119]
- Green River, [4], [208];
- Green River Station, Wyoming, [320];
- Green River Valley, [208], [234], [256]
- Green, trapper with Ashley, [234]
- Gregg, asserts buffalo herd is easily turned, [45];
- Grinnell, Henry, rescues Oatman girl, [310]
- Gulf of California receives Colorado River, [4]
- Gun, Amerind acquisition of, a boon, [72]
- Guns of Lewis and Clark, flintlocks, [164]
- Gunnison Valley, [322]
- Gypsiferous clay, [68]
- H
- Halberd, Spanish, found on Reid's farm, [126]
- Hall, [303]
- Hamblin, Jacob, [313], [324];
- Hammer of silver for driving last spike of Union Pacific, [336]
- Ham's Fork, Green River Valley, [309]
- Hancock meets Lewis and Clark, [174]
- Haney, British trapper, [163];
- visits Lewis and Clark, [180]
- Harmon, Daniel, [158];
- his description of the Canadian voyageur, [147]
- Hawkins, of Powell's party, [325]
- Heceta, Inlet of, [142]
- Heceta, Bruno, at mouth of the Columbia, [142]
- Helay River. See [Gila].
- Hennepin, [133]
- Henry, Andrew, [196], [208];
- Henry's Fork, [238]
- Hernando de Soto, expedition of, [126]
- Hidatsa tribe, where classed, [61]
- Hind, description of a buffalo pound,46
- Hoback, trapper, [206];
- on headwaters of the Snake, [208]
- Hochelaga, original name for site of Montreal, [130]
- Holy Cross, Mountain of the, [8]
- Horse, coming of the, to America, [72]
- Horse Prairie Creek, [168]
- Horses and cattle numerous early in New Mexico, [267]
- Hospitality, [82]
- Hostile Ground, [100], [185]
- House building, nature of, due to surroundings, [70]
- House-building tribes, [66]
- House, of the Shoshones, [68];
- Houses of the Amerinds, [68]
- Houston wins battle of San Jacinto, [298]
- Hubates, [116]
- Huddart, William, goes from Taos to Green River, [249]
- Hudson Bay Company, or Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay, treats Amerinds well, [82];
- Hudson Bay discovered, [132]
- Hudson River, [132]
- Human flesh eaten by Amerinds, [79]
- Humboldt River, [277];
- Hunchback cows of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, [2], [32], [106]
- Hunt, Wilson Price, [198];
- to go overland, [198];
- organises expedition, [203];
- leaves St. Louis for Astoria, [204];
- outfit, [204];
- leaves the Missouri, [206];
- route from the Missouri, [207];
- builds boats, [210];
- has a canoe wrecked, [210];
- party splits up, [210];
- caches goods at Caldron Linn, [211];
- starving, [212];
- loses a voyageur, [212];
- crosses Blue Mountains, [213];
- arrives at the Columbia, [214];
- arrives at Astoria, [214];
- goes to Russian America, [215]
- Hunting buffalo, methods of, [45]
- I
- Iberville starts French settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi, [134]
- Independence, eastern end of Santa Fé Trail, [257]
- Indian. See [Amerind].
- Inlet of Heceta, [142]
- Iowa tribe, where classed, [61]
- Iron Trail, the, best route for, [327]
- Irrigation, by Amerinds, [70];
- Irving, Washington, a buffalo hunter, [48];
- Island Park, [294]
- Iturbide, [257];
- proclaims Mexican independence, [228]
- Ives, Lieutenant, [317]
- J
- Jackson, President, reinstates Bonneville, [262], [284]
- Jackson's Hole, Wyeth's men killed there, [274]
- James, Dr. Edwin, with Long, [223];
- Jamestown, [132]
- Jefferson River, [168]
- Jefferson, Thomas, plans an expedition, [155];
- Jesuit Order superseded in California, [122]
- Johnson, George A., contracts for transporting supplies on Colorado River from the Gulf to Yuma, [315];
- takes steamer to head of navigation before Lieutenant Ives, [317]
- Johnston, Colonel Albert Sydney, moves army against the Mormons, [310]
- Joliet, [132]
- Jones, Ben, [216]
- Jonquire plans expedition, [140]
- José, Juan, the Apache chief, [265]
- Julesburg, [334]
- Julien, 1836, name cut on the wall of Labyrinth Canyon and the wall of Cataract Canyon, Colorado River, [296]
- Juniper tree, [10]
- K
- Kanab, [318]
- Kansas City, [309]
- Karankawan stock, location of, [67]
- Karoskiou River, [139]
- Kaskaias tribe met by Long, [226]
- Kearney, General, [300]
- Kendrick, Captain, goes into Strait of Fuca, [150]
- Keresan stock, location of, [67]
- Kichai tribe, where classed, [64]
- Killbuck with La Bonté, [296]
- Kino, Friar, [120];
- Kiowa tribe, [64]
- Kiowan stock, range of, [64]
- Kiva, [93]
- Knisteneau tribe, [63]
- Kooskooskie River of Lewis and Clark, [170]
- L
- La Bonté, [213];
- Labyrinth Canyon, name carved there, [296];
- Green River, [322]
- La Charette, Lewis and Clark plan to winter there, [160], [161]
- La Clede founds St. Louis, [141]
- Lake Bonneville, situation and character of, [6], [284]
- Lake Timpanogos, or Utah Lake, [124]
- La Lande, goes to Santa Fé, 1804, [176];
- Lamanite, the Mormon name for the Amerind, [317]
- Land grant, specified, [329];
- aggregate to Pacific railways, [330]
- Languages, Amerind, number of, in North America, [61]
- Lapage, [164]
- La Paz, missionaries go from there to San Diego, [122]
- La Perouse, explorer, [148]
- La Purisima Concepcion, Mission of, when founded, [122]
- L'Archeveque, the decoy in the assassination of La Salle, [134]
- La Reine, Fort de, of Verendrye, [139]
- Lark, the Astoria supply-ship, wrecked, [218]
- Laroche, British trader, [162];
- La Salle, to the mouth of the Mississippi, [133];
- Lasso, throwing the, in New Mexico, [267]
- Last spike on the trans-continental railway, driving the, [333];
- last tie, [336]
- Latrobe, Charles, companion of Washington Irving, [287]
- Laut, Miss A. C., Preface, [vii.]
- Lawlessness at the terminals of the trans-continental railway, [332]
- Law's Mississippi Company, [138]
- Le Clerc, Francis, [216]
- Ledyard, John, suggests trans-continental exploration, [153]
- Lee Ferry, first crossing there by white men, [318];
- map showing location of, [326]
- Lee, Jason and Daniel, [283], [308]
- Lee, John D., leader of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, [312];
- Leithead, Mormon bishop, brings supplies for Powell, [325]
- Lemhi Pass, [168]
- Leon, Alonzo de, finds remnant of La Salle party, [134]
- Leon, Ponce de, [103]
- Lewis and Clark, antedated on the Missouri, [139];
- Dorion with, [151];
- their expedition, [158];
- ready to start, [160];
- start for winter quarters, [161];
- men and boats, [161], [162], [163];
- first sight of Rocky Mountains, [164];
- in the untrodden Wilderness, [166];
- pass over the Great Divide, [168];
- down Snake River and the Columbia, [170];
- at Fort Clatsop, [171];
- leave Fort Clatsop, [172];
- reach St. Louis, [174]
- Lewis, clerk of the Tonquin, blows up the ship, [202]
- Lewis, Meriwether, desires to explore to the Pacific with Michaux, [156];
- Linguistic map of the Amerinds, [62]
- Linn, Story of the Mormons, [306]
- Lisa, Fort, [222]
- Lisa, Manuel, [151];
- Little Colorado River, [116]
- Little Gun, Crow chief, [293]
- Locations of early Pueblo villages, [115]
- Lodges, construction of beaver, [21]
- Lodore, canyon of Green River, [240];
- Lolo Creek, [169];
- Pass, [169]
- Lonely Dell, [318]
- Long, expedition of, [221];
- Longfellow's Evangeline, [130]
- Long's Peak, Pattie goes there, [249]
- Lopez enters New Mexico, [114]
- Loreto, Mission of, [120]
- Los Angeles, Spanish trail to, [270]
- Louisiana, [219];
- La Salle's claim to, [133];
- becomes a French province, [138];
- ceded by France to Spain, [141];
- undefined area of, [145];
- transferred by Spain to France, [152];
- bought by the United States, [152];
- transferred to the United States, [152];
- undefined, [153];
- map of, [154];
- western limit claimed by the United States, [155];
- defined by Spain, [161];
- purchase ratified by Congress, [161];
- cession consummated to United States, [161];
- bounds of, [181];
- claims as to boundaries, [181];
- boundary between it and British territory, [219];
- bearing of Pacific Fur Company on boundary of, [219];
- boundary, [220];
- Purchase limits, [220]
- Lussat, [152]
- M
- McClellan, [174], [205], [216]
- McCracken, [162]
- McDougall, next in command to Hunt, [199];
- McKay goes on the Tonquin, [200]
- Mackenzie, Alexander, [146], [163];
- McKenzie, Donald, [202];
- Kenneth, [284]
- McKnight, Chambers, and Baird imprisoned, [257];
- meet Glenn and Fowler, [257]
- McLoughlin, Hudson Bay Company governor, [290]
- McTavish reaches Astoria, [218]
- Mad River, [208]
- Madison River, [168]
- Maize, a staple before the whites arrived, [76], [77]
- Maldonado, Alonso del Castillo, companion of Cabeza de Vaca, [106]
- Malgares, character of, [182];
- Malhado Island, [104]
- Mallet brothers, [176]
- Mandan, tribe, where classed, [61];
- Map of Louisiana and of the Wilderness, [154]
- Maple sugar, [72]
- Marble Canyon, [324]
- Marble-Grand Canyon, length of, [324]
- Marcos of Niza, Friar, [108];
- Maria's River, [166]
- Marquette, [132];
- down the Mississippi, [133]
- Mary's River, [277]
- Massacre, of Villazur's party, [119];
- Mastodon bones beneath those of buffalo, [35]
- Maxent (or Maxan), La Clede and Company, [194]
- Maximilian, Prince of Wied, goes up the Missouri, [284]
- Mayflower, the, [132]
- Meadows, beaver, [24]
- Meares fails to find the Rio de San Roque, [148]
- Meek, Joe, appears in the Wilderness, [278];
- Mendoza, Viceroy of Mexico, sends Marcos of Niza to the north country, [108];
- Mesquite tree, [10]
- Metate, [267]
- Methodist missionaries into the Wilderness, [308]
- Mexican, natives with Coronado remain behind, [113];
- found at Zuñi, [116];
- mountains seen by Pike, [185];
- independence, [228];
- permission for trapping, [253];
- Gregg's opinion of people and government, [264], [268];
- not respected by trappers, [264];
- amusements, [265];
- trade with Apaches, [265];
- agriculture, etc., [267];
- irrigation, [267];
- tariff on American goods, [268];
- belief that the Neuces bounded Texas, [298];
- companions of Walker lasso Amerinds, [280];
- war with the United States, [300];
- cession of 1848, [300]
- Michaux, Andre, [156]
- Middle Park, Denver, to Salt Lake, road through, [315]
- Minitarees, country of, [166]
- Mission of San Fernando, discovery of gold there, [308]
- Missionaries, at San Francisco Bay, [122];
- Missions, in New Mexico, [117];
- Mississippi, Radisson's discovery, Preface, [vii.];
- Missouri, River, main highway to the Wilderness, [4];
- Mohaves buy Oatman girls, [309]
- Moki, tribe, where classed, [63];
- Montagne à la Basse, British trading post, [158], [163]
- Monterey Bay, missionaries fail to reach it, [122]
- Monterey, Walker passes the winter there, [280]
- Montreal, former native name for its site, [130]
- Monts, Sieur de, founds Port Royal, [130]
- Monument built by Verendrye, [139]
- More, one of Wyeth's men, killed in Jackson's Hole, [274]
- Mormon, Book of, [304]
- Mormons, The Story of the, Linn cited, [306]
- Mormons, [304];
- origin of, [304];
- opposition to, [304];
- books of the, [305];
- migrations, [305];
- arrive at Salt Lake, [305];
- privations of, [306];
- order, [307];
- claim to be invincible, [310];
- condemn the Mountain Meadows Massacre, [312];
- settle on the Santa Clara, [313];
- desirous of opening road across the Colorado for the benefit of the Lamanites, [317]
- Morrison's claim against La Lande, [190]
- Mosca Pass, Pike goes through it, [189]
- Moscoso de Alvarado, [127]
- Mother of Floods, the, [181]
- Mountain Meadows, trail through, [270], [309];
- Massacre, [310]
- Mountain, Wilderness, character of, [6];
- of the Holy Cross, [8]
- Mount Dellenbaugh, Powell's three men killed near it, [324]
- Mules, cars cut off to obtain blood for drinking, [257];
- Mush, [79]
- Muskbogs, [27]
- N
- Nachitoches, [182]
- Napoleon plans for Louisiana, [152];
- sells it, [152]
- Narrow Canyon, [324]
- Narvaez, Panfilo de, [2], [103], [104]
- Natchezan stock, location of, [67]
- National Yellowstone Park, [8]
- Nauvoo, Illinois, Mormon town of, [305]
- Navajo, tribe, where classed, [61], [66];
- Navigation on Colorado, Johnson first to reach head of, [317]
- Nephi, Mormon town, [309]
- Nevada, first trapper to traverse, [269]
- New Archangel, or Sitka, [215]
- New Jerusalem of the Mormons, [305]
- New Mexico, trapping in, [253];
- New Orleans, a port of deposit for the United States, [152];
- privilege revoked by Spain, [152]
- Nez Perces, one hung by Clark, [243];
- friendly to Bonneville, [274]
- Nidiver, shoots two natives on suspicion, [278]
- Night attacks seldom made, [72]
- Nixon, O. W., his book cited, [289]
- Niza. See [Marcos of Niza].
- Nonsense, Fort, [272]
- North America divided between three Powers, [141]
- Northern Mystery, [104], [108]
- North Platte, Browne killed near, [330]
- North-west Company, formed, [146];
- North-west Passage disproved, [147]
- Nova Scotia, Acadia, [130]
- Nueces River, considered by Mexico the boundary of Texas, [298];
- General Taylor ordered to occupy territory west of, [300]
- Nuttall, Thomas, [204], [206];
- O
- Oatman, massacre, [309];
- girl rescued by Henry Grinnell, [310]
- Ogden, Peter Skeen, meets Ashley, [240]
- Ogden, River, [227]
- Oldest town in the United States, [116]
- Old Jacob, [313]
- Old Spanish Trail, route of, [270], [309]
- Oñate, Juan de, reaches New Mexico, [116];
- Ontario, United States ship of war, at Astoria, [219]
- Ordway brings down boats, [172]
- Oregon, region, [8];
- first mention of river, [140];
- river, [151];
- agreement between United States and Great Britain as to temporary joint occupation of, [219];
- left free to British and Americans for ten years, [219];
- rights of Spain in, ceded to the United States, [220];
- United States claims to, [221];
- agreement renewed for a second term of ten years, [253];
- Saviour of, [289];
- not free to Americans, [289];
- boundary settled, [290]
- Oregon Trail, beginnings of, [214], [281];
- Orleans, Fort, established, [138]
- Ortiz, Juan, interpreter to Soto, [127]
- Overland stage company, road from Salt Lake to Denver explored for, [315]
- Oviedo, Lope de, [106]
- Oxen on the Santa Fé Trail, [258]
- P
- Pacific, Fur Company, organised, [198];
- Padilla, Friar Juan de, [113]
- Pai Utes begin to cultivate maize, [76]
- Palmyra, New York, Mormonism originates near, [304]
- Pambrune, Hudson Bay Company agent, refuses to sell food to Bonneville, [281]
- Paria River, [314];
- Parker, Samuel, missionary of the Presbyterian Church, goes to Oregon, [287];
- Parkman, Francis, description of Beckwourth, [238];
- goes to the Wilderness, [287]
- Parks of the Rocky Mountains, [6];
- Pathfinder, the, [298], [303]
- Pattie, James O., encounter with a buffalo calf, [52];
- Pattie, Sylvester, [246]-[248]
- Pawnee house, [151]
- Pawnee tribe, where classed, [64]
- Peace River, [148]
- Pearl of Great Price, Mormon book, [305]
- Pecos River, natives hunted buffalo there in 1540, [34];
- Espejo follows it down on his exit from New Mexico, [116]
- Pemmican, how made, [40];
- accumulated, [80]
- Penn, William, [132]
- Piccolo, Friar, [120]
- Pierre, town of, how named, [285]
- Pierre's Hole, Smith meets Sublette's party there, [252];
- battle of, [273]
- Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, [178];
- his Mississippi expedition, [178], [179];
- returns to St. Louis from the north, [180];
- goes west, [180];
- escorts natives to their home, [181];
- watched by Spaniards, [181];
- comes to trail left by Malgares, [183];
- and the Pawnee war party, [185];
- sees the Rocky Mountains, [185];
- lack of foresight, [186];
- reaches foot of Rocky Mountains, [186];
- his Grand Peak, [186];
- sufferings of his men, [186];
- his wanderings, [188];
- builds fort on Rio Conejos, [189];
- trapped by the Spaniards, [190];
- discovers he is not on Red River, [190];
- meets La Lande, [191];
- before Governor Allencaster, [191];
- treatment at Santa Fé, [192];
- meets Pursley (Purcell), [192];
- taken to General Salcedo, [192];
- sent back to the United States, [192];
- his opinion of the Plains region, [221];
- pessimistic on the value of the Wilderness, [304]
- Pike's Peak, Long sees it, [224];
- James first man to climb to its summit, [225]
- Pilot Knobs, name Hunt gave the Three Tetons, [208]
- Pima ruins called Casa Grande, [120]
- Piman stock, range of, [66]
- Pineda, discovers the mouth of the Mississippi, [104]
- Piñon tree, and nut, [10]
- Pitahaya, [10]
- Plains, extent of, [5];
- Platte River, [6]
- Plum Creek massacre, [330]
- Plymouth Rock, [132]
- Poala, one of the Tiguex villages, [114]
- Point George, [200]
- Polk, on Rio Grande boundary, [300]
- Ponce de Leon, [103]
- Pone, cornbread, [79]
- Population, [99];
- estimate of Amerindian, [95]
- Porcupine Bear's protest against whiskey, [94]
- Portneuf River, [281];
- Wyeth builds his Fort Hall there, [283]
- Potts, trapper, [194]
- Powell, John Wesley, Major, the only explorer who went where modern Amerinds did not go, [90];
- conceives the idea of exploring the canyons of the Colorado, [320];
- expedition, [320];
- loses a boat in Lodore, [322];
- has a difference with the wrecked men, [322];
- three of his men leave the canyon and are killed, [324];
- emerges from the Grand Canyon, [324];
- leaves the Colorado, [325];
- helped by Brigham Young, [325];
- thought to be dead, [325];
- at St. George tries to get his mail, [325]
- Powell, Walter, [325]
- Prairie buffalo, [38]
- Prairies, extent of, [5]
- Presidio of Tubac, [124]
- Presidios, [122]
- Presbyterians in Oregon, [308]
- Promontory Point, Utah, [336]
- Provost, Etienne, famous trapper, [233];
- in Brown's Park, 1825, [240]
- Pueblo, Pike at site of, [185];
- Pueblo, villages, character of, for defence, [76];
- storerooms, [80]
- Puebloan, explanation of term, [66];
- Purchase, Gadsden, [325];
- Purgatoire River, Long follows it, [226]
- Pursley (or Purcell), James, [176];
- Q
- Quires, Pueblo village, [114]
- Quivira, [112], [113], [126]
- R
- Raccoon, British man-of-war, arrives at Astoria and renames it Fort George, [218]
- Race variation, [54]
- Radisson, first discoverer of the Mississippi, Preface, [vi.], [132].
- Railway, transcontinental, [327];
- Railways, Government practically paid for them, [330]
- Raleigh in North Carolina, [131]
- Ratafia, [268]
- Rebellion of the Puebloans, [117]
- Red Canyon of Green River, [238];
- Ashley's name in, [240]
- Red River, [6], [181];
- Redwood forests, [8]
- Ree, tribe, where classed, [64]
- Reid, halberd found on his farm in Missouri, [126]
- Rendezvous in Green River Valley, described, [234], [256]
- Ribera, Don Juan Maria de, [139]
- Rigdon, Sidney, real founder of Mormonism, [305]
- Rio, Colorado Grande, same as Seedskedee, [4];
- Grande del Norte, [5];
- Grande, head of, [6];
- de Espiritu Santo, [104];
- de Buena Guia, the Colorado, [111];
- de Tiguex, [112];
- del Norte, [114];
- Grande Towns, map of, [115];
- de las Vacas, [116];
- de Esperanza, [117];
- de San Roque, [142];
- Grande Settlements, [175];
- Conejos, [189];
- Grande, Pike on, [189];
- Grande, trapping on, [269]
- River of Palms, the Rio Grande, [127]
- River of the West, [4], [140], [151];
- Rivers of the Plains, [6]
- Rivers, of the Wilderness, [4], [327];
- of the Rocky Mountains, character of, [204]
- Rizner, trapper, [206]
- Robideau, [255]
- Robinson, Doctor, with Pike, [132], [190];
- escorted to Chihuahua, [192]
- Robinson, trapper, [206], [208]
- Roche Jaune River, [160], [164]
- Rock picture of buffalo in southern Utah, [36]
- Rocky Mountain Fur Company, [244];
- Rocky Mountains, first view of, in the north, [139];
- Rodgers, Captain, [317]
- Rodriguez enters New Mexico, [114]
- Rose, Edward, [237], [263];
- with Hunt, [207]
- Ross's Hole, [169]
- Route of Lewis and Clark, [173]
- Routes to California, [309]
- Ruddock, Samuel Adams, [233]
- Ruins, [68];
- of Casa Grande, [68]
- Ruiz, [114]
- Russia agrees on boundary, [254]
- Russian explorations, [140];
- claims, [220]
- Ruxton quoted, [296];
- cited, [296]
- S
- Sabine River, boundary of Louisiana, [221]
- Sacajawea, Chaboneau's wife, goes with Lewis and Clark expedition, [163];
- Sachem, office of, [85]
- Sacramento, trapping on the, [255];
- city, aid to Pacific Railway, [330]
- Sacred tent of the Dakotas, [51]
- St. Augustine, date of founding, [116];
- first settlement by Europeans within the borders of the United States, [130]
- St. Charles, [161]
- St. George, [317];
- Lamanites to be endowed there, [317]
- St. Louis, founded, [141];
- Salcedo, General, [192]
- Salishan stock, range of, [68]
- Salleto, Don Ignacio, captures Pike, [190]
- Salt, lagoons of New Mexico, [8];
- Salt Lake, early visitors, [233];
- Ashley meets Ogden there, [240];
- Bridger visits it, [242];
- Ashley's men circumnavigate it, [242];
- Provost there before Bridger, [243];
- Bonneville's desire to explore it, [276];
- Frémont sees it, [300];
- Mormons attracted, [304]-[305];
- American acquisition of, [308];
- road to Denver from, explored by Berthoud and Bridger, [315];
- wrecked trappers go there, [322]
- Salt Lake City, [306]
- Salt Lake Valley, visited 1776 by Escalante, [124]
- Salvatierra, Friar, [120]
- San Antonio de Padua, Mission, when founded, [122]
- San Antonio, settlement of, [134];
- Texas, population of, in 1805, [176]
- San Carlos de Monterey, when founded, [122]
- San Diego, harbour, visited by Vizcaino and Cabrillo, [119];
- Mission, when founded, [122]
- San Fernando Mission, when founded, [122];
- gold found there, [308]
- San Francisco, Bay, missionaries go there, [122];
- San Francisco de Solano de Sonoma Mission, when founded, [122]
- San Francisco mountains, [116]
- San Gabriel, settlement of, [116];
- Mission, when founded, [122]
- Sangre de Cristo Pass, [189];
- crossed by Fowler and Glenn, [235]
- San Jacinto, battle of, won by Texans, [298]
- San Joaquin Valley, Walker goes up it, [280]
- San José Mission, when founded, [122]
- San Juan, New Mexico, [130];
- San Luis Obispo Mission, when founded, [122]
- San Luis Park, or Valley, [235]
- San Luis Rey de Francia Mission, when founded, [122]
- San Miguel Mission, when founded, [122]
- San Rafael Mission, when founded, [122]
- San Roque, Rio de, same as the Columbia, [142]
- San Xavier del Bac Mission, often called Bac, [124]
- Santa Aña, General, [228]
- Santa Barbara Mission, when founded, [122]
- Santa Clara, Mission, when founded, [122];
- River, Mormons settle on the, [313]
- Santa Cruz Mission, when founded, [122]
- Santa Fé, error of date of founding sometimes given, [116];
- Santa Fé Trail, [257], [309]
- Santa Inez Mission, when founded, [122]
- Santa Maria enters New Mexico, [114]
- Say, T., with Long, [223]
- Scalp, Thompson's, preserved, [332]
- Scalped alive, [330]
- Scalping by white men, [243], [296]
- Sciatoga tribe, or Tushepaws, [214]
- Scott, General, sent to Mexico, [300]
- Secret Town Trestle, [329]
- Seedskedee, same as Green River and Colorado, [4], [234], [250]
- Selkirk, Lord, Red River Colony of, [242]
- Sensitive rose, [10]
- Sequoia trees, [8]
- Seton, Alfred, [272]
- Settlements, in New Mexico, [117];
- Seven Cities of Cibola, [108], [109];
- Sevier, River, [6];
- trapping on, [269]
- Sevier Lake, [6]
- Sherman, General, [328]
- Shiam Shaspusia, name given by Crows to Meek, [294]
- Shinumo group, [67]
- Shoshokoes, [277]
- Shoshone, stock, range of, [63], [64];
- Sierra Blanca, [189];
- see also [frontispiece].
- Sierra Nevada range, [6];
- Government aid to Pacific railways through, [329]
- Sign language of the Amerinds, [62]
- Sihasapa, Dakota sub-tribe, [63]
- Silver mines in New Mexico, early, [267]
- Simpson, Captain, location of Tiguex by, [113]
- Simpson, Sir George, in charge of Hudson Bay Company in Oregon, [252]
- Siouan stock, how title is formed, [61];
- range of, [63]
- Sioux, hostility of, [243]
- Sitgreaves reconnoitres Arizona, [316]
- Sitka, [215]
- Smallpox, ravages of, and other diseases, [97];
- among the Plains tribes, [99]
- Smith, Fort, Long arrives there, [227]
- Smith, George A., Jr., killed by Navajos, [317]
- Smith, Jedediah S., [232];
- with Ashley, [234];
- character, [234];
- goes from Salt Lake to California, [250];
- goes to San Gabriel Mission, [250];
- crosses the Sierra, [251];
- returns to Salt Lake, [251];
- goes to California a second time, [251];
- attacked by Mohaves, [251];
- thrown into prison by the Spaniards in California, [251];
- traps to the Columbia, [251];
- circuits he made, [252];
- party destroyed by Shastas, [252];
- reaches Fort Vancouver, [252];
- meets Sublette's search party, [252];
- back at Salt Lake, [252];
- killed by Comanches, [262];
- Gregg's estimate of, [262];
- first to traverse Nevada, [269];
- Walker's journey compared to Smith's, [280]
- Smith, Joseph, Mormon prophet, [304];
- murder of, [305]
- Smith, Pegleg, [263];
- see [Thomas L. Smith].
- Smith, Thomas L., [263];
- Snake River, [210];
- plain, [211]
- Snow sheds in the Sierra, [331]
- Socorro, copper mines near, [267]
- Soledad Mission, when founded, [122]
- Song of the voyageur, [129]
- Sonora, Mission of Dolores in, [120];
- Pass, Sierra Nevada range, [280]
- Sonoran government proclamation concerning booty taken from natives, [265]
- Soto, Hernando de, [126];
- Sounds, strange, heard by Lewis and Clark, [168]
- South Pass, discovered by Andrew Henry, [234];
- South-west, little mention of the trapping that went on there, [269]
- Spain and the United States, relations of, in 1805, [181];
- agree on Louisiana boundary, [220]
- Spalding, Reverend H. H., with Whitman, [289]
- Spaniards expelled by the Pueblos from New Mexico, [117]
- Spanish, term for buffalo, [34];
- restrictions on exploration, [117];
- Fork, [124];
- destroy French in Florida, [130];
- protest against the transfer of Louisiana to the United States, [152];
- objection to Lewis and Clark's entering Louisiana before transfer, [160];
- watch Pike, [181];
- intention regarding Pike, [190];
- claims, [220];
- River, [208], [234];
- women on Santa Fé Trail, [258];
- Trail, [270], [322]
- Sparks, one of Pike's men, freezes his feet, [190];
- Captain, attempts to explore Red River, [227]
- Spike, the last, [335], [337]
- Split Mountain Canyon, [294]
- Sportsmen go to the Wilderness, [287]
- Stampede, [260]
- Stanford, Governor, drives the last spike, [336]
- Steamboat, on Long's expedition, [222];
- Stephens, [274]
- Stillwater Canyon, Green River, [322]
- Stock, term as applied to Amerind tribal groups explained, [61];
- languages of the Amerinds, [61]
- Stony Mountains, [156]
- Strait of Juan de Fuca, [119]
- Straits of Anian, a myth, [147]
- Stuart, James, monument, described by, [140]
- Stuart, Robert, [215], [216], [218], [252]
- Sublette, Milton, [264], [274]
- Sublette, William, with Ashley, [234];
- Subsistence of the Amerind tribes, [70]
- Succotash, [79]
- Sulte, Benjamin, Preface, [vii.]
- Sumner, Jack, with Major Powell in the exploration of the Colorado, [320];
- goes down Colorado from Green River Valley to tidewater, [325]
- Supawn, a dish made of cooked corn, [79]
- Sutter's ranch, gold found there, [308]
- Sweetwater River, named by Ashley, [234]
- Swindling by traders, [94]
- T
- Tabbaquena's map, [89]
- Tacoutche Tesse, not the Columbia, [148]
- Tamos villages seen by Espejo, [116]
- Tampa Bay, Soto lands there, [126]
- Tanning buffalo robes, [48]
- Taos, location of, [70];
- Tariff put on American goods into New Mexico, [268]
- Taylor, General, ordered to occupy Rio Grande region, [300]
- Temples of the Virgin, location of, [8]
- Termini of Pacific railways, [332]
- Texas, Spanish settlements in, [119];
- Thompson, David, to forestall Astor on the Columbia, [198];
- arrives at Astoria, [202]
- Thompson, Almon Harris. See [dedication]
- Thompson, William, scalped alive, [330];
- his scalp preserved, [332]
- Thorn, Captain Jonathan, to command the ship to establish Astoria, [198];
- killed on the Tonquin, [200]
- Thousand Mile Tree, [328]
- Three Tetons called Pilot Knobs by Hunt, [208]
- Tidal bore, Colorado River, [249]
- Tiguex, [111];
- Timpanogos, Utah Lake, [124]
- Tobacco, use of, by Amerind tribes, [79]
- Todd, grant from Spain, [151];
- Tonikan stock, [68]
- Tonkawan stock, [67]
- Tonty, [133]
- Tonquin, the doomed vessel, [198];
- Torrey, [303]
- Tortillas, [267]
- Totem, [85]
- Tower of Babel, Amerinds supposed by the Mormons to be descendants of some who were dispersed at that time, [304]
- Townshend, naturalist, with Wyeth, [283]
- Traders, cupidity of, [94], [286]
- Trading-posts on Missouri, [151]
- Trail, of Escalante, [124];
- from Zuñi to the Crossing of the Fathers, [314]
- Trail, Creek, [168]
- Trap, beaver, [28];
- Trappers, operations of, [221], [253];
- Traveller's Rest, camp of Lewis and Clark, [169]
- Travois, the, [89]
- Treaty, ending war of 1812, signed, [219];
- Tribal names, [86]
- Trinchera Valley, [235]
- Trudeau's House, [151]
- Tucson, [124]
- Turk, the, [112]
- Turnbull takes a small steamer to the Colorado, [315]
- Tusayan, [110]
- Tushepaws, or Sciatogas, [214]
- Tutahaco, group of Pueblos visited by Coronado, [114]
- U
- Ugarte, Friar, [120]
- Uinta, range, cut into by Green River, [234];
- Agency, Goodman leaves the Powell party and goes out that way, [322]
- Umatilla, Hunt arrives in the valley of, [213]
- Uncle Sam, steamboat on the Colorado, [315]
- Union Express Company, [336]
- Union Pacific Railway formed, [328];
- Government aid to, [329]
- United States, gains all east of the Mississippi, [144];
- Utah, Lake, [242];
- Ute, tribe, where classed, [63];
- V
- Vaca, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de, wrecked with Narvaez, [103];
- Vacas, Rio de las, [116]
- Vallar, Andri, [216]
- Valley of the Colorado, [6]
- Vancouver, Point, [170]
- Vancouver, in Deception Bay before Gray, [150]
- Vanished race theories, [68]
- Vaquero, [129];
- Vargas, General, reconquers New Mexico from the Pueblos, [117]
- Verendrye, Sieur de la, [138];
- Verrazano's cruise, [128]
- Veta Pass, [189]
- Villazur expedition, [117], [138], [182];
- title of paper on, by Bandelier, [134]
- Virgin River, Jedediah Smith reaches it and calls it Adams River, [250];
- Virgin, Thomas, Virgin River perhaps named after him, [250]
- Vizcaino, explorations of, [119];
- enters San Diego harbour, [119]
- Volunteers, California, march from Salt Lake to Denver over new road laid out by Captain Berthoud, [315]
- Voyageurs, songs of, [129];
- W
- Waggons, on the Santa Fé Trail, [258];
- to Wind River and to Green River, [272]
- Walker, [272], [276]-[278], [280]
- Walla Walla, Fort, [281]
- Wallows of Buffalo, [50]
- Wapatoo Island, [283]
- War party, return of an Amerind, [100]
- War Road, The, [100], [185]
- Wasatch Mountains, [5];
- Watermelons preserved all winter, [81]
- Weaving by Amerinds, [93]
- Western Engineer, The, Long's steamboat, [222]
- West port, starting point of Santa Fé Trail, [309]
- Wet Mountain Valley, Pike goes through it, [188]
- Whipple, exploration of, [316]
- Whirlpool Canyon, [294]
- Whiskey, forced on natives, [286];
- White bears (grizzlies), [53], [164];
- White blood, infusion of, in Amerind tribes, [72]
- White buffalo, skin sacred, [51]
- White Mountains, [189]
- Whitman, Dr. Marcus, [287]-[289], [290], [308]
- Wichita tribe, where classed, [64]
- Wickiup, [68]
- Wilderness, area, [1];
- Wilkinson, General, [164];
- Lieutenant, [184]
- Willamet, [170]
- Willow Island, [332]
- Wind River, [207];
- Mountains, highest peak climbed by Frémont, [300]
- Wolf, mad, [275]
- Wolfskill, William, opens route to California, [270];
- Women, first European, to cross the plains, [258]
- Wonsits Valley, [294], [322]
- Wood buffalo, [38]
- Wyeth, Nathaniel J., goes to the Wilderness, [273];
- X
- Xavier del Bac, San, mission, [124]
- Y
- Yaqui River, Mexico, Cabeza de Vaca reaches it, [107]
- Yellowstone, [8], [164];
- Yellowstone, steamboat, [285]
- Yosemite Valley, [8];
- first whites there, [280]
- Young, Brigham, becomes head of the Mormon Church, [305];
- Young, Ewing, [264]
- Yucca, [10]
- Z
- Zuñi, stock, location of, [67];
Canada Lynx.
From Wonderland, 1904. Northern Pacific Railway.