INDEX

Abnakis, [4].

Assiniboines, [49], [50-63], [90], [109].

Aulneau, Father, [37-40].

Beauharnois, Marquis de, [16], [31], [33]

Bow Indians, [78-87].

Caughnawagas, [4].

Chippewas, [39], [41], [43], [46].

Coureurs de bois, [10-12].

Cree Indians, [39], [46], [47], [49], [93].

Fort Bourbon, [92].

Fort Dauphin, [92].

Fort La Jonquière, [108].

Fort La Reine, [49], [68], [91], [107].

Fort Maurepas, [31], [47], [107].

Fort Michilimackinac, [19], [29].

Fort Paskoyac, [93], [108].

Fort Rouge, [49].

Fort St Charles, [30], [37], [47], [107].

Fort St Pierre, [30].

Good-looking Indians, [76], [77].

Horse Indians, [78].

Kaministikwia river, [15], [31], [37].

La Galissonière, Marquis de, [95], [96], [99], [100].

La Jemeraye, [19], [28], [29], [30]; dies, [37].

La Jonquière, Marquis de, [100], [101].

La Vérendrye, François, [19], [65], [67], [74], [81]; reaches Rocky Mountains, [84]; [87], [92], [96], [97-106].

La Vérendrye, Jean-Baptiste, [19], [30], [36], [37]; is killed by the Sioux, [40].

La Vérendrye, Louis, [36], [47].

La Vérendrye, Pierre, son of the elder Pierre, [19], [47], [74], [87].

La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de, birth and childhood, [1-3]; enters army, [3]; expedition against Deerfield, [4-7]; raid on St John's, [7]; serves in War of Spanish Succession, and is made lieutenant, [8]; returns to Canada and enters fur trade, [9]; determines to find the Western Sea, [14]; marries Mlle Dandonneau, [14]; commands trading-post on Fort Nipigon, [15]; granted monopoly of Western fur trade as a means of financing his Western expedition, [17-19]; his first journey of exploration, [20-32]; returns to Montreal, [33-5]; starts again for the West, [36]; refuses to revenge himself on the Sioux for the murder of his son, [46]; with the Assiniboines, [49-54]; with the Mandans, [55-68]; falls ill, [69]; returns to Assiniboines, [70]; at Fort La Reine, [71], [72], [74], [92]; returns to Montreal, [94]; given the rank of captain and decorated, [95]; dies, [96]; [112].

Louvière, builds Fort Rouge, [49].

Mackenzie, Alexander, [109].

Mandans, tribe of Indians, [44-67], [72], [73], [89].

Messager, Father, [19], [30].

Niverville, [107-8].

Noyelle, M. de, [94].

Ochagach, his story of the Western Sea, [15-16], [19].

Parkman, Francis, his description of Bow Indians, [81-3].

People of the Little Cherry, [87-89].

Rainy Lake, fort built at, [29].

Rocky Mountains, explorers reach, [85], [93], [108], [109].

Rouville, Hertel de, guerilla leader, [4].

Saint-Pierre, Legardeur de, [96], [102-3], [104], [106-7], [109-11].

Sioux Indians, [39-43], [46], [90], [91].

Snake Indians, [80], [86], [88].

Subercase, leader of raid on St John's, [8].

Three Rivers, [1-2].

Western Sea, [12-19], [21], [73], [93], [95], [109].

Winnipeg, Lake, fort built at, [30-1].

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