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, [108].
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 Somaliland, [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, [88].
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 Fork, 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, [184].
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, [48].
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, [349], [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, 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, [165].
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].
Dakotahs, meaning of the name, [95].
Dana, Lieutenant, compagnon de voyage, [8].
Dancing, Mormon fondness for, [230].
Danite band, account of the, [359].
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, [68].
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, [169].
“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, [7].
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 fly, [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, [343].
Ferris, B. J., 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].
FrémontIsland, [328].
Frémont Peak, in the Rocky Mountains, [153], [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, [281].
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, [284].
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, [328].
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 Deserét, [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, [320-1].
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, [452].
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].
Guess, 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].
Half-way House, halt at the, [53].
Half-way 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, [78].
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], [349].
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, [76-7].
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, [55].
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, [33].
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, [35].
Jimsen weed, [111].
Jo, St., city of, [12], [15].
Johnston’s Settlement, [451].
Jones, Elder Dan, his Mormon works, [213], [note].
Jordan, New, its course in the Wasach Mountains, [332].
Jordan, New, the river in Great Salt Lake City, [233], [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], [332], [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].
Lynch, Lieutenant W. F., his proprieties of travel, [150].
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, [173].
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, [249].
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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