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Beyond the Old Frontier: Adventures of Indian-Fighters, Hunters, and Fur-Traders

Chapter 24: INDEX
By George Bird Grinnell
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A collection of narratives and sketches recounts life beyond the frontier through accounts of the early fur trade, hunting expeditions, and overland exploration. It explores trapping and buffalo-hunting techniques, the barter economy of peltry, relationships and councils between Indigenous peoples and newcomers, and the role of forts and trading posts along migration routes. Episodic chapters combine personal recollections and biographical portraits of hunters, traders, and scouts, while maps and illustrations provide geographic context and visual detail of camps, skirmishes, and the changing social landscape of a region in transition.

INDEX

  • Abenakis, 58.
  • Abert, Lt., 205.
  • A Boy in Indian Camps, 235, 237.
  • Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains, 194.
  • Adventures on the Oregon or Columbia River, 4.
  • Agave Americana, 197.
  • “Albatross,” 36.
  • Ama-ketsa, 89, 90, 111.
  • American Fur Co., 5, 153.
  • Antelope, habits of, 310.
  • Apache, 138, 154, 188.
  • Arapahoes, 154, 161, 188, 260, 329, 335.
  • Arkansas River, 128, 129, 130, 189.
  • Arkansor River, 278.
  • Arrow Creek, 333.
  • Arroyo Hondo, 147.
  • Assiniboine, Fort, 121.
  • Astor Company, 5.
  • Astor House, 278.
  • Astor, John Jacob, 3, et seq.
  • Astor project, 38.
  • Astoria, 3, 12, 42.
  • Astoria, building of, 10.
  • Bait for alligator, 279.
  • Baker, I. G., 328.
  • Baker’s Bay, 8, 37.
  • Ban-at-tees, 88, 111.
  • Bannocks, 88.
  • Barbadoes, 194.
  • Battle of bulls, 294.
  • Battles at Adobe Walls, 154, et seq.
  • Battle with Piegans, 95.
  • Bay, Baker’s, 8, 37.
  • Bayard, Lt. Geo. D., 155.
  • Bayou Salado, 207, 208, 230.
  • Bear hunting, 65, 313, 317.
  • Bear Paw Mountains, 346, 350.
  • Bear River, 112.
  • Bear Wolf, 350.
  • Beaubien, Charles, 170.
  • Beaubien, Narcisse, 170.
  • “Beaver,” 25, 26.
  • Beaver Creek, 349.
  • Beaver trap, 79.
  • Bellevue Point, 14.
  • Bent, Charles, 128, 137, 141, 142, 162, 215.
  • Bent, Charles (the younger), 130.
  • Bent, Colonel (See Wm. W. Bent).
  • Bent County (Colo.), 190.
  • Bent, George, 128, 130, 139.
  • Bent, George (the younger), 130.
  • Bent, Governor (death of), 144.
  • Bent, John, 127.
  • Bent, Julia, 130.
  • Bent, Mary, 130.
  • Bent, Robert, 128, 130, 139.
  • Bent, Robert (the younger), 130.
  • Bent, St. Vrain & Co., 237.
  • Bent, Silas, 127.
  • Bent, Silas (the younger), 127.
  • Bent, Wm. W., 127, 128, 139, 141;
  • (death of), 158.
  • Bent & St. Vrain, 132.
  • Benton, 326.
  • Bent’s Fort, 127, 130, 248;
  • (Farnham’s description), 158.
  • Bent’s Old Fort (described), 132.
  • Big Bend, 304.
  • Big Snowy Mountains, 338, 340.
  • Big Timbers, 157.
  • Birch bark, 57.
  • Birch-bark canoes, 57.
  • Black Beaver, 171.
  • Black Butte, 335.
  • Black, Captain, 37.
  • Black Hills, 132.
  • Blackfeet, 101, 103, 104, 116, 329, 335, 352.
  • Blair, Frank P., 140, 170.
  • Bloods, 329, 352.
  • Boast of voyageur, 122.
  • Boggs, Charles, 153.
  • Boggs, Tom, 153, 179, 182, 188.
  • Bois de vaches, 242.
  • Boucharville, 306, 311, 312, 316, 320.
  • Bourgeois, 92.
  • Box Elder Creek, 336.
  • Breakfast, Indian, 17.
  • Breaking mules, 239.
  • Buchanan, Honorable James, 142.
  • Buffalo bull, adventure with, 299.
  • Buffalo habit, 113.
  • Buffalo hunting, 222.
  • Buffalo running, 290, 296.
  • Building of Astoria, 10.
  • Bull Goes Hunting, 344.
  • Bull Mountains, 336, 337, 340.
  • California and Oregon Trail, 237.
  • Calispels, 100.
  • Camp on the march, 250.
  • Camp on the prairie, 282.
  • Campbell, Robert, 128.
  • Canadian River, 138.
  • Candles, tallow, 185.
  • Candy-pulling, 185.
  • Canoe management, 8.
  • Canoe Point, 113.
  • Captain Black, 37.
  • Captain Thorn, 7, 9, 24.
  • Carcajou, 229.
  • Carpenter, E. W., 328.
  • Carroll & Steele, 328.
  • Carson, Kit, 131, 132, 154, 162, 163, 169, 170, 179;
  • (death of), 158.
  • Cascades, 26, 59.
  • Cath-le-yach-é-yach, 42.
  • Catlin, 281.
  • Cayuse, 44.
  • Cedar Lake, 121.
  • Chadwick, Mr., 238, 244.
  • Chardon, Mr., 304, 306, 315.
  • Cheyennes, 131, 154, 157, 161, 188, 329, 335.
  • Chihuahua, 194, 203.
  • Chihuahua, game of, 203.
  • Chinooke, 8.
  • Chinook Point, 9.
  • Chinooks, 9.
  • Chipita, 184, 185.
  • Chouteau County (Mont.), 328.
  • Chouteau, Jr. & Co., Pierre, 238.
  • Chouteaus, 130.
  • Cimarron River, 167.
  • Clarke, John, 35.
  • Clark’s Fork, 17.
  • Cochran, J. V., 358.
  • Columbia, Forks of, 26.
  • Columbia River, 3, et seq.
  • Comanches, attack by, 260.
  • Comanches, 138, 154, 163, 176, 188, 260.
  • Come Comly, 37.
  • Comeloups, 27.
  • Coolidge, Mr., 264, 266, 267.
  • Council at Fort Benton, The, 323, 325.
  • Council Bluffs, 282.
  • Council Grove, Kan., 241.
  • Cowlitz River, 72.
  • Cox, Ross, 5, 24.
  • Creeks (see River).
  • Crees, 100.
  • Crooks, Ramsey, 24, 25, 27.
  • Crows, 116, 312, 329, 332, 335.
  • Cuba, 194.
  • Daughters of the American Revolution, 190.
  • Davis, Charles, 179.
  • Dawson, James, 320.
  • Day, John, 25, 27.
  • Day’s, John, Valley, 104, 105.
  • Dease, J. W., 94.
  • Deep Creek, 334.
  • Delawares, 171, 175.
  • De Lisle, Frank, 239.
  • Diamond Springs, 142.
  • Diaz, Porfirio, 195.
  • Dog flesh as food, 253.
  • “Dolly” (schooner), 23.
  • Doniphan, Colonel A. W., 142, 204.
  • Doniphan’s Expedition, 132, 136.
  • Drinker, Mr., 238.
  • Eagle Creek, 350.
  • Eagle Eye, 330.
  • Eagle Tail Feathers, 138.
  • Edmonton, 121.
  • El Paso, 194, 205.
  • Emigrant trail, 183.
  • Eyacktana, 48, 50.
  • Eyakema Valley, 44.
  • Famasi, 349, 358.
  • Farnham, R., 24.
  • Farnham, Thos. J., 158.
  • Father of all Children, 352.
  • Feast, Indian, 60.
  • Fernandez, 145.
  • Fight at Arroyo Hondo, 147.
  • Fight with Blackfeet, 341.
  • Fisher, 179.
  • Fitzpatrick, Thos., 140, 172.
  • Flathead House, 117.
  • Flathead River, 102.
  • Flathead River Post, 100.
  • Flatheads, 100.
  • Flat Willow Creek, 336, 338.
  • Fontaine-qui-bouille, 208.
  • Forest and Stream, 326.
  • Fort Adobe, 138, 139, 153.
  • Assiniboine, 121.
  • Bent, 127, 130, 248.
  • Benton, 326.
  • Berthold, 316.
  • Fauntleroy, 158.
  • Flathead River Post, 100.
  • Garry, 5.
  • George, 5, 42.
  • Jasper House, 121.
  • Larpenteur’s Post, 304.
  • Leavenworth, 132.
  • Lyon, 158.
  • McKenzie, 301.
  • Minitaree, 304.
  • Minitaree Post, 320.
  • Nez Percés, 71, 72, 75, 94.
  • Okanagan, 43, 53.
  • Pierre, 290.
  • Rocky Mountain House, 121.
  • St. Vrain, 138, 139, 153.
  • Spokane, 27, 28, 32.
  • Spokane House, 95, 100.
  • Union, 290, 306, 307, 309, 320, 346.
  • Vermilion, 289.
  • White River Post, 303, 304.
  • William (Bent’s), 130, 171, 248.
  • William (N. W. Co.), 42.
  • Wise, 158.
  • Fourchette Creek, 348.
  • Francisco, 131.
  • Franklin, Captain John, 121.
  • Fraser River, 23.
  • Fur Hunters of the Far West, 4, 41.
  • Game of Chihuahua, 203.
  • Garrard, Lewis H., 132, 145, 237.
  • Garry, Fort, 5.
  • George, Fort, 5, 42.
  • “Gibraltar of Columbia,” 76.
  • Goat, white, 19.
  • Goddin River, 104, 105, 116.
  • Governor Charles Bent, 141, 259.
  • Grand Detour, 304.
  • Greeley, Colo., 154.
  • Green, Andrew, 137, 184.
  • Green, Dick, 138.
  • Greenhorn River, 152, 208.
  • Grizzly bear, 64.
  • Gros Ventres, 329, 332, 349, 352, 353.
  • Hallock, Charles, 176.
  • Hamilton, Wm. T., 325.
  • Hatcher, 179, 180, 182, 184.
  • Hawkins, John, 208.
  • Hē-hĭm´nĭ-ho-năh´, Freckled Hand, 179.
  • Hell’s Gate, 101.
  • Highwood Mountains, 333.
  • Hĭs´sī-o-mē´tă-nē, 167.
  • Hodgens, 88, 89, 90.
  • Ho-nīh´, Wolf, 179.
  • Horses recovered from Crows, 165.
  • Horse-taking by Comanches, 164.
  • Hudson Bay Company, 3, et seq.
  • Hudson Bay Company, With the, 91.
  • Huerfano River, 208.
  • Hughes, J. T., 132.
  • Hunt, Wilson Price, 5, 24, 35.
  • Independence, Mo., 281.
  • Indian feast, 60.
  • Indian tribes:
  • Abenakis, 58;
  • Apache, 138, 154, 188;
  • Arapahoes, 154, 161, 188, 260, 329, 335;
  • Ban-at-tees, 88, 111;
  • Bannocks, 88;
  • Blackfeet, 101, 103, 104, 116, 329, 335, 352;
  • Bloods, 329, 352;
  • Calispels, 100;
  • Cath-le-yach-é-yach, 42;
  • Cayuse, 44;
  • Cheyennes, 131, 154, 157, 161, 188, 329, 335, 362;
  • Chinooke or Chinooks, 9;
  • Comanches, 138, 154, 163, 176, 188, 260;
  • Crees, 100;
  • Crows, 116, 312, 329, 332, 335;
  • Delawares, 171, 175;
  • Flatheads, 100;
  • Gros Ventres, 329, 332, 349, 352, 353;
  • Iroquois, 58, 65, 72, 73, 100, 101, 115;
  • Kiowas, 138, 154, 155, 161, 188;
  • Kutenais, 100;
  • Minitarees, 309;
  • Navajo, 142;
  • Nez Percés, 16, 27, 32, 44, 88, 102, 116;
  • Okanagan, 54;
  • Palouse, 100;
  • Piegans, 95, 98, 99, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 329, 352, 355;
  • Pisscows, 44, 53;
  • Saulteaux, 100;
  • Shahaptin, 16, 17;
  • Shaw-ha-ap-tens (See Shahaptin);
  • Shawnees, 171, 175;
  • She-Whaps, 23, 27, 61, 64;
  • Shoshoni, 88, 178;
  • Sioux, 329, 335;
  • Snakes, 25, 72, 81, 84, 85, 88, 90, 100;
  • Spokanes, 100;
  • Suhtai, 167;
  • Walla Walla, 17, 82;
  • War-are-ree-kas (Shoshoni), 89, 111;
  • Wy-am-pams, 16;
  • Wyandottes, 239.
  • Indians and Their Battles, 75.
  • International boundary, 321.
  • Iroquois, 58, 65, 72, 73, 100, 101, 115.
  • Ishmah, 301, 308.
  • Jack, 330, 358.
  • Jasper House, 121.
  • Juarez, 195.
  • Judith Mountains, 335, 336.
  • Judith River, 326, 327, 335.
  • Kamloops, 27.
  • Kansas City, Mo., 141.
  • Kearny, General S. W., 142, 161, 162, 204.
  • Keith, James, 42, 43, 58.
  • Kiowas, 138, 154, 161, 188.
  • Kiowa woman, 168.
  • Kipp, James, 281, 289, 320.
  • Kipp, Joe, 328.
  • Kittson, Mr., 77, 78, 81.
  • Knife River, 304.
  • Kutenais, 100.
  • La Bonté, 233.
  • La Cañada, 148.
  • Lake Bourbon, 121.
  • Larocque, Joseph Felix, 121.
  • Larpenteur’s Post, 304.
  • Leavenworth, Fort, 132.
  • Lee, General, 238.
  • Lewis and Clark, 71, 103.
  • Lewis Fork, 17, 90.
  • Life at Bent’s Fort, 170.
  • Little Blackfoot River, 356.
  • Little Dog, 330, et seq.
  • Little Missouri River, 316, 317.
  • Little Mountain, 138.
  • Little Rocky Mountains, 348, 349.
  • Little White Man, 128.
  • Long Narrows, 24, 26.
  • Madeira Islands, 194.
  • Maguey, 197.
  • Malades River, 105, 112.
  • Mammoth Cave, Ky., 280.
  • Marias River, 356.
  • “Martha,” 320.
  • Maxwell, L., 179.
  • McDonald, Finan, 94, 98, 99, 103.
  • McDonald, John (Bras Croche), 43.
  • McDougall, Duncan, 6, 10, 36.
  • McKay, Alexander, 6, 24.
  • McKay, young, 44.
  • McKenzie, Alexander, 3.
  • McKenzie, Donald, 24, 25, 26, 33, 58, 69, 73, 78.
  • McKenzie, Kenneth, 238.
  • McLellan, Donald, 5, 24.
  • McTavish, J. G., 32.
  • Meagher, General Francis, 326, 327, 328, 353.
  • Medicine Springs, 332, 335.
  • Měn-ěs-tō´-kōs, 352.
  • Minitaree Fort, 304.
  • Minitaree Post, 320.
  • Minitarees, 309.
  • Missoula, Mont., 327.
  • Missouri River, 332.
  • Moccasin Mountains, 332.
  • Mora, N. M., 158.
  • Mormons, 282.
  • Mountain Chief, 357.
  • Mountain sheep, 221.
  • Mountains:
  • Bear Paw, 346, 350;
  • Big Snowy, 338, 340;
  • Bull, 336, 337, 340;
  • Highwood, 333;
  • Judith, 335, 336;
  • Little Rocky, 348, 349;
  • Moccasin, 332;
  • Turtle, 316.
  • Mourning, Indian, 82, 347.
  • Munson, Judge, 328.
  • Murray, 178, 179, 180.
  • Musselshell River, 336, 337, 339, 348, 357.
  • My Sixty Years on the Plains, 326.
  • Navajo Indians, 142.
  • New Caledonia, 25.
  • Nez Percés, 16, 27, 32, 44, 88, 102, 116.
  • Nez Percés Fort, 71, 72, 75, 94.
  • Nō-mă-nĭh´, Fish, 179.
  • North Platte River, 183.
  • Northwest Company, 3, et seq.
  • Northwesters, 4, et seq.
  • Northwest Fur Co., 41.
  • Norway House, 121, 122.
  • Oakinacken River, 19.
  • Ogden, Peter, 73.
  • Okanagan, Fort, 43, 53.
  • Okanagan Indians, 54.
  • Okanagan River, 19, et seq.
  • Okanogan, 20.
  • Okinagan, 20.
  • “Old Bark,” 259.
  • One-eyed Juan, 183.
  • Otero Co. (Colo.), 190.
  • Outfit for prairie travel, 330.
  • Owl Woman, 129.
  • Pacific Fur Co., 5, et seq.
  • Paint, 239.
  • Palliser, Colonel Wray, 277.
  • Palliser, John, 277.
  • Palouse, 100.
  • Paquenode, 306.
  • Parkman, 237.
  • Pau-ē-sīh´, Flat Nose, 179.
  • Pawnee Fork, 176, 260.
  • “Pawnee” (Kiowa chief), 155.
  • Payette River, 107.
  • Peacock’s Ranch, 155.
  • Peck, R. M., 154.
  • Pérey, 306, 308.
  • Piegans, 98, 99, 100, 101, 104, 105, 106, 329, 352.
  • Piegans, battle with, 95.
  • Pierre, Fort, 290.
  • Pierre, S. D., 290.
  • “Pilot Knobs,” 90.
  • Pisscow River, 19.
  • Pisscows, 44, 53.
  • Plum Creek, 335.
  • Point Canoe, 113.
  • Point Chinook, 9.
  • Point George, 9.
  • Point Vancouver, 14.
  • Pŏ-ō-om´măts, Gray Blanket, 179.
  • Poor (Lean) Bear, 138.
  • Porcupine Creek, 340, 343.
  • Poshett Creek, 348.
  • Power, T. C., 328.
  • Prairie fire, 284.
  • Prairie traveller, 277.
  • Priest Rapids, 19.
  • Prince, 85.
  • Pueblo, Colo., 129, 130, 157.
  • Pulque, 197.
  • Purgatoire River, 129, 130, 157 171.
  • Quarrel, Indian, 86.
  • “Raccoon,” 37.
  • Raids by Indians, 198.
  • Rattling Buttes, 335.
  • Red Coat Land, 356.
  • Red River (of North,) 121, 122, 123.
  • Red River (of Texas), 167.
  • Red River settlement, 4.
  • Red Sleeves, 176.
  • Red Sleeves Creek, 176.
  • Reed, John, 33.
  • Reid (See Reed, J.), 88.
  • Reid’s River (see Payette River, 107).
  • Reynolds, A. E., 189.
  • Richardson, Dr., 121.
  • Rio del Norte, 205.
  • Rio Grande, 205.
  • Rivers:
  • Arkansas, 128, 129, 130, 189;
  • Arkansor, 278;
  • Arrow, 333;
  • Bear, 112;
  • Beaver, 349;
  • Box Elder, 336;
  • Canadian, 138;
  • Cimarron, 167;
  • Clark’s Fork, 17;
  • Columbia, 3, et seq.;
  • Columbia, Forks of, 26;
  • Cowlitz, 72;
  • Deep, 334;
  • Eagle, 350;
  • Flathead, 102;
  • Flat Willow, 336, 338;
  • Fontaine-qui-bouille, 208;
  • Fourchette, 348;
  • Fraser, 23;
  • Goddin, 104, 105, 116;
  • Greenhorn, 152, 208;
  • Huerfano, 208;
  • Judith, 326, 327, 335;
  • Knife, 304;
  • Lewis Fork, 17, 90;
  • Little Blackfoot, 356;
  • Little Missouri, 316, 317;
  • Malades, 105, 112;
  • Marias, 356;
  • Missouri, 332;
  • Musselshell, 336, 337, 339, 348, 357;
  • North Platte, 183;
  • Oakinacken, 19;
  • Okanagan, 19, et seq.;
  • Oregon, 4;
  • Pawnee Fork, 176, 260;
  • Payette, 107;
  • Pisscow, 19;
  • Plum, 335;
  • Porcupine, 340, 343;
  • Poshett, 348;
  • Purgatoire, 129, 130, 157, 171;
  • Red (of North), 121, 122, 123;
  • Red (of Texas), 167;
  • Red Sleeves, 176;
  • Reid’s (See Payette), 107;
  • Rio del Norte, 205;
  • Rio Grande, 205;
  • Rivière aux Malades, 105, 112;
  • Saint Vrain’s Fork, 138;
  • Salmon, 104;
  • Sa-mick-a-meigh, 31;
  • Skam-naugh, 76;
  • Smilkameen, 31;
  • Snake, 25;
  • Teton, 356;
  • Walnut, 155;
  • Willamette, 58;
  • Willow, 334;
  • Wolf, 334;
  • Yellowstone, 281, 306.
  • Rivière aux Malades, 105, 112.
  • Rocky Mountain House, 121.
  • Ross, Alexander, 3, et passim.
  • Rowan, Mr., 121.
  • Running down a calf, 314.
  • Russell, Colonel, 264.
  • Russian America, 5.
  • Ruxton, George Frederick, 191, 193.
  • Sagacity of wolves, 208.
  • Sage grouse, 64.
  • St. Louis, 194.
  • St. Vrain, Ceran, 130.
  • St. Vrain (death of C.), 158.
  • St. Vrain, Felix, 158.
  • St. Vrain’s Fork, 138.
  • Salmon River, 104.
  • Sa-mick-a-meigh River, 31.
  • Sand Creek massacre, 249.
  • Sandwich Islanders, 58.
  • Sandwich Islands, 7.
  • San Fernandez, 145.
  • San Fernando, 142.
  • Santa Anna, General, 195.
  • Santa Fé, 129, et seq.
  • Santa Fé trail, 127.
  • Saulteaux, 100.
  • Scalp dance, 256.
  • Seaton, Alfred, 33.
  • Sedgwick, Major, 155.
  • Shahaptin, 16, 17.
  • Shaved Head, 138.
  • Shaw-ha-ap-tens (see Shahaptin).
  • Shawnees, 171, 175.
  • She-Whaps, 23, 27, 61, 64.
  • “Short Man, The,” 326.
  • Shoshoni, 88, 178.
  • Simplicity of Indians, 19.
  • Simpson, Governor, 95, 117, 121.
  • Sioux, 329, 335.
  • Skam-naugh River, 76.
  • Skunk, adventure with, 20.
  • Small Robe band (Piegan), 355.
  • Smallpox at Bent’s Fort, 131.
  • Smilkameen River, 31.
  • Smith, Green Clay, 327.
  • Smith, John, 179, 248, 252, 253, 254, 255.
  • Snake Indians, 25, 72, 81, 84, 85, 88, 90, 100.
  • Snake River, 25.
  • Solitary Hunter, The, 275, 277, 321.
  • Spokane House, 95, 100.
  • Spokanes, 100.
  • Spotted Horse, 344.
  • Staked Plains, 167.
  • Star Robe, 350, 358.
  • Stevens, Governor I. I., 326.
  • Stuart, Alexander, 42, 43.
  • Stuart, David, 6, 22, 25, 26, 27.
  • Stuart, Robert, 24, 25, 27.
  • Suhtai, 167.
  • Tailing the bull, 200.
  • Taos, 129, 137, 145.
  • Teton River, 356.
  • Thompson, David, 13, 15, 17.
  • Thorn, Captain, 7, 9, 24.
  • Three Tetons, 90, 115.
  • Thunder Birds, 187.
  • “Tod Issac,” 36.
  • To´hau sen, 138, 155.
  • “Tonquin,” 7, 13, 23.
  • Tonquin Point, 9.
  • Trade for horses, 182.
  • Trade for liquor, 181.
  • Trade for robes, 182.
  • Trade, winter’s, 23.
  • Trails of the Pathfinders, 24, 31.
  • Train-wrecking by Cheyennes, 362.
  • Trapper’s earnings, 219.
  • Trappers’ methods, 79.
  • Trapper’s outfit, 216.
  • Traps stolen, 107.
  • Travel by ox train, 172.
  • Travois dog, 300.
  • Tummatapam, 17.
  • Tunica, 353.
  • Turley, 147.
  • Turley’s Ranch, 147.
  • Turtle Mountains, 316.
  • “Twins, The,” 71.
  • Union, Fort, 290, 306, 307, 309, 320, 346.
  • Upson, Gad. E., 357.
  • Valley, John Day’s, 104, 105.
  • Vasquez, Benito, 130.
  • Vera Cruz, 194.
  • Vermilion, Fort, 289.
  • Vide Poche, 242.
  • Vigil, 144.
  • Vī-hiu-nĭs´, Little Chief, 179.
  • Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail, 237.
  • Walla Walla, 27.
  • Walla Walla Indians, 17, 82.
  • Walnut Creek, 155.
  • War-are-ree-kas, 89, 111.
  • War of 1812, 36.
  • Wa-si´cha-chischi´-la, 128.
  • Westport, Mo., 141, 171, 238.
  • White Cow Woman, 168.
  • White goat, 19.
  • White River Post, 303, 304.
  • White Thunder, 130.
  • Willamette River, 58.
  • William, Fort (Bent’s), 130, 171, 248.
  • William, Fort (N. W. Co.), 42.
  • Williams, Bill, 228, 294, 325.
  • Willow Creek, 334.
  • Winnipeg, 5.
  • Winter storm, 211.
  • Wŏhk´po-hŭm´, White Horse, 179.
  • Wolf Creek, 334.
  • Wolf-shooting, 68.
  • Wolverine, 229.
  • Wolves, sagacity of, 208.
  • Wolves, sleeping, 300.
  • Wolves, ways of, 54.
  • Work of a fur trader, 54.
  • Wounded bull, 246.
  • Wō-wĭhph´pai-ī-sīh´, Big Nostrils, 179.
  • Wy-am-pams, 16.
  • Wyandottes, 239.
  • Yellow Woman, 130.
  • Yellowstone National Park, 90.
  • Yellowstone River, 281, 306.