Battey on visiting ceremony [493]

Batts, Thomas, exploration into Cherokee country by [31]

Bayagoula, tribe of Choctaw confederacy [500]

Bean, Lieutenant, part taken by, at Horseshoe bend [95]

Bean, Mrs, rescue of, by Nancy Ward [48], [204], [490]

Bean in Cherokee lore [424], [471]

Bear, myths and lore concerning [250], [264], [268], [273]–[274], [286]–[287], [325]–[329], [411], [436], [446]–[447], [450]–[452], [472]–[474], [504]

Bear, songs of [400], [401]

Bear-grass in Cherokee lore [420]

Beard, John, killing of Indians by [74]