The City of the Saints/Index
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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, 103.
- 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 Somali-land, 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, 83.
- 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" 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, 134.
- 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, 43.
- 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, 340, 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" Ridge," 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, 163.
- 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.
- Dakotah" meaning of the name, 95.
- Dana, Lieutenant, compagnon de voyage, 8.
- Dancing, Mormon fondness for, 230.
- Danite band, account of the, 59.
- 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, 63.
- 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, 16),
- "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, T.
- 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 fiy, 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, 348.
- Ferris, B.J. on 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.
- Frémont," Island, 328.
- Frémont," Peak, in the Rocky Mountains, 155, 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, 251.
- 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, 264.
- 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, 34
- 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 Desert, 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, 820–1.
- 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, 450.
- 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.
- Guese, 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.
- Halfway House, halt at the, 53.
- Halfway" 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, 7S.
- 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,
- 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, 16–7.
- 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,
- 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, 38.
- 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, 85.
- Jimsen weed, 111.
- Jo, St., city of, 12, 15.
- Johnston's Settlement, 451.
- Jones, Elder Dan, his Mormon works, 215, note.
- Jordan, New, its course in the Wasach Mountains, 332.
- Jordan, New, the river in Great Salt Lake City, 3, 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, 382, 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.
- woe Lieutenant W.F., his proprieties of travel, 50, 66.
- 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, 178.
- 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, 240.
- 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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