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].
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].