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The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Chapter 25: INDEX.
By Sir Richard Francis Burton
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The author records an overland journey to a prominent religious settlement in the Great Basin and the subsequent crossing of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast. He provides close observations of communal institutions, rituals, and urban layout, combines practical route descriptions and travel tips with vivid landscape notes, and documents interactions with settlers and travelers. The narrative interweaves diary-like immediacy, geographic and historical detail, illustrations, and references to earlier explorers, while offering measured commentary on religion, colonization, and the challenges of frontier travel.

INDEX.

  • Aborigines, American. See Indians.
  • Absinthe. See Sage, wild.
  • Academy of the 7th Ward of Great Salt Lake City, 360.
  • Adobe manufactory near Great Salt Lake City, 344-5.
  • Adobe of the Western World, 197.
  • Adobe, origin of the name, 197, note.
  • Adoption among the North American Indians, 117.
  • Adoption, Mormon principle of, 269.
  • Adultery, Mormon punishment for, 426.
  • Agricultural Society of Deserét, 316.
  • Agriculture, list of premiums awarded at the annual show, 285-287, note.
  • Agriculture, present state of, in Great Salt Lake Valley, 285.
  • Alamo. See Cotton-wood-tree.
  • Albino, rarity of an, among the Indians, 104.
  • Albinos among buffaloes, 51.
  • Alcohol distilled in Great Salt Lake City, 320.
  • Alexander, Colonel B., his hospitality, 90.
  • Algæ in Great Salt Lake, 326.
  • Algarobia grandulosa, or mezquite-tree, 7.
  • Alkali Lake, 153.
  • Alkali Lake Station on the Platte River, 54.
  • Almanac, the, published in Utah, 253.
  • America, shape of the continent of, 6.
  • American Fork, 447.
  • “Americanisms, Dictionary of,” Bartlett’s, quoted, 17, note.
  • Animal life, absence of, on the Grand Prairie, 18.
  • Animal life, in the American Sahara, 64.
  • Animal worship of the American Indians, 108.
  • Animals and vegetables, confusing trivial names for, in America, 142, note.
  • Animals, Indian signs for, 126.
  • Animals of the Uinta Hills, 178.
  • Animals, small quantity of food required to fatten, in the Rocky Mountains and in Somaliland, 140.
  • Animals, wild, at Rocky Bridge, 159.
  • Animals, wild, in the wooded heights of the Wind-River Mountains, 165.
  • Animals, wild, of the Black Hills, 142.
  • Animals, wild, of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153.
  • Animals, wild, of Utah Territory, 279.
  • Antelope at Rocky Ridge, 159.
  • Antelope, its habitat, 67.
  • Antelope, its meat, 67.
  • Antelope or Church Island, 194, 323, 327.
  • Antelope Springs, 464, 465.
  • Antelope, the (Antelocapra Americana), 67.
  • Ant-hills, 196.
  • Apadomey female warriors, 113.
  • Arapaho, or Dirty-Nose Indians, 142, 143.
  • Arapaho, loose conduct of, 117.
  • Arapaho, sign of the tribe of, 123, 124.
  • Arapaho, their lodges, 86.
  • Arapaho, their personal appearance, 143, 144.
  • Arapaho, visit of some, from a neighboring camp, 142.
  • Archery, Sioux skill in, 120.
  • Arickaree, or Ree Indians, 37.
  • Arms of the North American Indians, 57, 119.
  • Arms, ignorance of the lower grades of English of the use of, 174.
  • Army of the United States, remarks on the, 336.
  • Army, grievances of the, 445.
  • Arroyo, fiumara or nullah, an, 70.
  • Arrow-poison of the Indians, 482.
  • Arrows of the North American Indian, 119, 120.
  • Arrow-wood (Viburnum dentatum), 119.
  • Art in America, remarks on, 186, 187.
  • Artemisia. See Sage, wild.
  • Asclepias tuberosa, common in Utah Territory, 167.
  • Ash Hollow, 70.
  • Ash Hollow, General Harney’s defeat of the Brûlé Sioux at, 70, 89.
  • Ash-Hollow Creek, 70.
  • Assiniboin Indians, 97.
  • Assiniboin Indians, their present habitat, 100.
  • Assiniboin River, 100.
  • Aurora borealis, a splendid, in the prairies, 61.
  • Avena fatua of the Pacific Water-shed, 139.
  • Badeau’s Ranch, or Laramie City, 88.
  • Badgers at Rocky-Bridge Station, 161.
  • Bartlett’s “Dictionary of Americanisms” quoted, 17, note.
  • Basswood, 17.
  • “Basswood Mormons,” 17, note.
  • Bath, the hot air and water, of the North American Indian, 119.
  • Bathing and its dangers, 156.
  • Battle Creek, 447.
  • Bauchmin’s Creek, 189, 190.
  • Bauchmin’s Creek, valley of, 189.
  • Bauchmin’s Fork, 189.
  • Bauchmin’s Fork, station at, 189.
  • “Bear’s Rib,” Mato Chigukesa, made chief of the Brûlé Sioux, 89.
  • Bear Bay, 182.
  • Bear, flesh of the, as food, 231.
  • Bear, in Cotton-wood Kanyon, 347.
  • Bear, of the Black Hills, 142.
  • Bear River, 182, 183, 325.
  • Bear River, coal found on the banks of, 182.
  • Bear River Mountains, 174.
  • Bear Springs, in Utah Territory, 274.
  • Bear, the grizzly, 192.
  • Bear traps, 347.
  • Beavers in the torrent-bed of Echo Kanyon, 187.
  • Beavers, tails of, as food, 231.
  • Bedstead, populousness of, 202.
  • Bee, a, on the topmost summit of the Rocky Mountains, 165.
  • Bee House in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
  • Beer, or Soda Springs, 179.
  • Beer of Great Salt Lake City, 320.
  • Beet-root grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
  • Bell, Governor, of Great Salt Lake City, 215.
  • Bench-land of the Great Salt Lake Valley, 195.
  • Bennett, J. C., his work on the Mormons, 205, note.
  • Big Field, near Great Salt Lake City, 198.
  • Bighorn, or American moufflon, 153, 155.
  • Big Kanyon, 192.
  • Big Mountain, 190.
  • Big Mountain, pass of the, 190, 191.
  • Bill of fare at a supper in Great Salt lake City, 232.
  • Birds near Fort Kearney, 48.
  • Birds of Utah Territory, 280.
  • Birds, wild, of the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, 165.
  • Bishops, the Mormon, 400.
  • Bison Americanus. See Buffalo.
  • Bissonette, M., the Creole, 139.
  • Blackfeet, or Sisahapa Indians, 98.
  • Blackfeet, sign of the tribe of, 124.
  • Blackfeet, their friendliness to whites, 165.
  • Blackfeet, their lodges, 86.
  • Black Hills, the, 91.
  • Black Hills, the, animals to which they afford shelter, 142.
  • Black Hills, geography of the, 134.
  • Black Rock, near Great Salt Lake, 324.
  • Black Rock, view from the, 330.
  • Black’s Fork River, 174, 176.
  • Black’s Fork, vegetation of, 177, 178.
  • Bloomer dress, 91, 92.
  • Blue River, Big, 29.
  • Blue River, Little, 38.
  • Blue River, Little, fish of the, 38.
  • Blue-Earth River, Indians west of, 96.
  • Bluffs on the prairies, 29.
  • Bogus, origin of the term, 417, note.
  • Bonhomme Island, sand-banks at, 15.
  • “Book of Mormon,” the. See “Mormon, Book of.”
  • Books necessary to the Western traveler, 10.
  • Books on Mormonism, list of, 203, note.
  • Botany of Utah Territory, 280.
  • Boulders, huge natural pile of, Brigham’s Peak, 136.
  • Boulders, in Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
  • Bow and arrow of the North American Indian, 119.
  • Bowery, the, in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
  • Bowery, visit to the, 258.
  • Box-Elder Creek, 136.
  • Boys, Indian, 59.
  • “Brass, City of,” of the Arabs, 78.
  • Braves, Indian, 57.
  • Bread made in the prairies, 84.
  • Bread-root of the Western hunters, 182, note.
  • Breakfast in the prairies, 84.
  • Brewery, Utah, 332.
  • Brick-making at Great Salt Lake City, 344, 345.
  • Bridger, Colonel James, the celebrated trapper, 178.
  • Bridger, Fort, 178.
  • Bridger, Range of the Uinta Hills, 176.
  • Bridle and bit used on the prairies, 27.
  • Brigham’s Kanyon, 194, 235.
  • Brigham’s Peak, 136.
  • Brigham’s Peak, the driver’s story of, 136.
  • “British-English” Mormons on the road to Great Salt Lake City, 137.
  • Brûlé Sioux Indians, their habitat, 98. See Sioux.
  • Brutisch, Giovanni, the Venetian, 485.
  • Bugs, bed, 160, note.
  • Bugs, other, 160, note.
  • Buffalo, absence of the, on the Grand Prairie, 18.
  • Buffalo, annual destruction of, 50.
  • Buffalo, berry, the, cultivated in Great Salt Lake City, 170, note.
  • Buffalo, Britishers and buffalo shooting, 73.
  • Buffalo, extinct westward of the Rocky Mountains, 50.
  • Buffalo, former and present number of, 50.
  • Buffalo, grass, 51.
  • Buffalo, herds of, 48.
  • Buffalo, Indian mode of hunting it, 51, 52.
  • Buffalo, Indian mode of preparing the skins of, 52.
  • Buffalo, its habits, 51.
  • Buffalo, number of robes purchased by the several companies, 49, note.
  • Buffalo, three great families of, 50.
  • Buffalo, uses to which it is put, 51, 52.
  • Buffalo, wild, as compared with tame meat, 49.
  • Bullock, W. T., the Mormon, 419.
  • Bunch-grass, 139.
  • Bunch-grass, its geographical limits, 139.
  • Bunch-grass, proposed acclimatization of, 140.
  • Bundling among the North American Indians, 116.
  • Bundling, antiquity of the practice, 116, note.
  • “Bunk,” the, at Lodge-Pole Station, 66.
  • Burnt-Thigh Indians, their habitat, 98.
  • Butte Station, 468.
  • Buttes, Red, trading-post of, 146.
  • Buttes, meaning of the word, 146, note.
  • Butterfield, or American Express, route of the, 3.
  • Butterfield, or American Express, its receipts from government, 4.
  • Cache Cave, 184.
  • Cache Valley, 335.
  • Cacti of the American wilderness, 64.
  • Cactus, intoxicating, 64, note.
  • Calidarium, the Indian, 119.
  • California, establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to, 4.
  • California, roads from Great Salt Lake City to, 452.
  • California, slope and surface of the land of, 8.
  • California, time for setting out for, 138.
  • Calumet, the, regarded as a sacred instrument, 112.
  • Camel corps, proposal for establishing a, for American outpost duty, 46.
  • Camp Floyd, description of, 334.
  • Camp Floyd, hatred of the Mormons expressed at, 339.
  • Camp Floyd, position of the camp, 446.
  • Camp Floyd, second visit to, 444.
  • Camp Floyd, the sick certificate, 342.
  • Camp Floyd, trip to, 331.
  • Camp Scott, near Fort Bridger, 179.
  • Canadians, French, settled in the Far West, 152.
  • Canis latrans, the, 64.
  • Cannibals, how far the North American Indians are, 117.
  • Cannon River, Indians west of, 96.
  • Card-playing among the North American Indians, 117.
  • Carrington, Albert O., the Mormon, 242.
  • Carrington Island, 327.
  • Carson City, 494, 496.
  • Carson City, lawless violence of, 288.
  • Carson House Station, 189.
  • Carson Kit, the celebrated guide and Indian interpreter, 178.
  • Carson Lake, 274, 491.
  • Carson River, 493.
  • Carter, Judge, and his store, 179.
  • Caswall, Rev. Henry, his works on Mormonism, 205, note.
  • Cattle starved in some regions, 138.
  • Cattle, numbers of skeletons seen, 138.
  • Cedar Creek, 334.
  • Cedar, effect of climate upon the growth of the, 41.
  • Cedar, gradually diminishing, 53.
  • Cedar Island, the first, in the Missouri, 41.
  • Cedar, the name, as used in the United States, 70, note.
  • Ceremony and manners, Indian want of, 118.
  • Chamizo, or greasewood, 158.
  • Chandless, William, his work on Mormonism, 204, note.
  • Cherokees, their present condition, 35.
  • Cherokees, their lodges, 86.
  • Cheyenne Indians, the, 99.
  • Cheyenne Indians, sign of their tribe, 124.
  • Cheyenne Indians, their chastity, 117.
  • Cheyenne Indians, their lodges, 86.
  • Chieftainship among the Indians, 117.
  • Children, Indian fondness for, 103.
  • Children, Indian, 59.
  • Children, of the Mormons, 422-3.
  • Children, of the Prophet, 249.
  • Chimney Rock, the, 74.
  • China-town, Carson River, 496.
  • Chinche, or bug, the, 160, note.
  • “Chip” fires in the prairies, 48.
  • Chipmonk, or Chipmuk, the, 159, note.
  • Chippewas. See Ojibwa Indians.
  • Choctaw Indians, their lodges, 86.
  • Chokop’s Pass, 480.
  • Chronology of the most important events recorded in the Book of Mormon, 411.
  • Chugwater, the, 90.
  • Church Butte, geological formation of, 176.
  • Churchill, Fort, 493.
  • Cities, formation of, in Utah Territory, 291.
  • City-Creek Kanyon, 195.
  • Climate of Platte Bridge, 137.
  • Climate of the country near Fort Bridger, 179, 180.
  • Climate of Utah Territory, 275.
  • Clothing necessary to the Prairie traveler, 10.
  • Coaches, mail, from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4.
  • Coaches, materials of which they are made, 12.
  • Coaches, slow rate of traveling, 5.
  • Coaches, the “Concord coach,” 12.
  • Coal found on the banks of the Bear and Weber Rivers, and at Silver Creek, 182.
  • Coal in Nebraska, 141.
  • Coal in Utah Territory, 281.
  • Coal near Sulphur Creek, 182.
  • Coal on the banks of the Platte River, 141.
  • Cold Springs, in Kansas, 18.
  • Cold Springs, squatter life at, 19.
  • Cold Springs Station, 487.
  • Cold-Water Ranch, 49.
  • Colorado, Rio, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Columbia River, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Comanche Indians, the, 60, note.
  • Comanche Indians, their lodges, 86.
  • Compass, the prairie, 48.
  • “Concord coach,” description of the, 12.
  • Conference, description of a Mormon, 302-9.
  • Constitution of the State of Deserét, 289, note.
  • Cookery, dirty, of Indian squaws, 80.
  • Cookery bill, in the prairies, 84.
  • Coon’s Kanyon, 194
  • Copperas Springs, 181.
  • Corporation of Great Salt Lake City, 315.
  • Corrals, mode of forming, 76.
  • Corrill, John, his work on Mormonism, 205, note.
  • Cotton grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
  • Cotton-weed, the, 64.
  • Cotton-wood Creek, 30.
  • Cotton-wood Kanyon, Great, 343.
  • Cotton-wood Kanyon, Great, celebration of Mormon Independence Day at, 349, note.
  • Cotton-wood Kanyon, Great, timber of, 284, 285.
  • Cotton-wood Kanyon, Great, visit to, 346.
  • Cotton-wood Lake, Great, 347.
  • Cotton-wood Station, in Nebraska, 30, 49.
  • Cotton-wood tree, the, or Alamo, 32.
  • Cotton-wood tree, its uses, 32.
  • Cougar, the, or mountain lion, 153, and note.
  • Council Bluffs, the natural crossing of the Missouri, 71, note.
  • Council Hall of the Seventies in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
  • Council, the High, of the Mormons, 401.
  • Counties, list of, of Utah Territory, 291-3.
  • Coureurs des bois, or unlicensed peddlers, 81.
  • Court-house Ridge, the, 72.
  • Court-house, description of it, 72.
  • Court-house, in Great Salt Lake City, 417.
  • Court-house, interesting case tried in the, 417.
  • Cox, Daniel, his idea of a water communication between the Missouri and the Columbia Rivers, 162, 163, note.
  • Coyotes, or jackals of the Western World, 64.
  • Coyotes, at Rocky-Bridge Station, 160, 161.
  • Coyotes, in Echo Kanyon, 188.
  • Coyotes, near Black’s Fork, 176.
  • Cree Indians, their habitat, 100.
  • Creek, Ash-Hollow, 70.
  • Creek, Battle, 447.
  • Creek, Bauchmin’s, 189, 190.
  • Creek, Box-Elder, 136.
  • Creek, Cedar, 334.
  • Creek, Cotton-wood, 30.
  • Creek, Deer, 138.
  • Creek, Dry, 483.
  • Creek, Egan’s, 183.
  • Creek, Grasshopper, 21.
  • Creek, Horse, 79.
  • Creek, Horseshoe, 165.
  • Creek, Kanyon, Big, 191.
  • Creek, Kanyon, East, 189.
  • Creek, Kiowa, Little, 79.
  • Creek, La Bonté, 135.
  • Creek, Meadow, 451.
  • Creek, Mill, 195.
  • Creek, Muddy, Little, 140.
  • Creek, Nemehaw, Big, 21.
  • Creek, Omaha, or Little Punkin, 71.
  • Creek, Pacific, 166.
  • Creek, Plum, 48.
  • Creek, Quaking Asp, 161.
  • Creek, Sandy, 71.
  • Creek, Sandy, Big, 167.
  • Creek, Sandy, Little, 167.
  • Creek, Sheawit, 482.
  • Creek, Shell, 465, 466.
  • Creek, Silver, 182.
  • Creek, Smith’s, 486.
  • Creek, Snow, 140.
  • Creek, Strawberry, 161.
  • Creek, Sulphur, 181.
  • Creek, Thirty-two-mile, 38.
  • Creek, Turkey, 30.
  • Creek, Vermilion, 27.
  • Creek, Walnut, 21.
  • Creek, Willow, 161, 461.
  • Creek, Yellow, 183.
  • Creeks, or “criks” in America, 21.
  • Crickets (Anabrus simplex?), scourge of, in Utah Territory, 284.
  • Crops in Great Salt Lake Valley, 201.
  • Crosby, Judge, 450.
  • Cumming, Hon. A., governor of Great Salt Lake City, 215.
  • Cumming, Hon. A., his impartial discharge of his duties, 216.
  • Curriculum of the Prairie Indians, 107.
  • Cursing and swearing in America, 14.
  • Cynomys Ludovicianus, or prairie-dog, 66.
  • Davies, Elder John, his Mormon works, 214, note.
  • Dakotahs. See Sioux.
  • Dakotahs, meaning of the name, 95.
  • Dana, Lieutenant, compagnon de voyage, 8.
  • Dancing, Mormon fondness for, 230.
  • Danite band, account of the, 359.
  • Dark Valley, 60.
  • Davis, Hon. Jefferson, his estimate of the cost of a railway from the Mississippi to the Pacific, 3, note.
  • Dayton, Lysander, the Mormon Bishop, and his wives, 448.
  • Dead, Indian mode of burial of the, 122.
  • Deep-Creek Kanyon, 462.
  • Deep-Creek Station, 463.
  • Deep-Creek Valley, 463.
  • Deer Creek, 138.
  • Deer Creek, establishment at, 139.
  • Deer, kinds of, found in the regions east of the Rocky Mountains, 68.
  • Delaware Indians, account of the, 37.
  • Delaware Indians, their lodges, 86.
  • Denmark Ward in Great Salt Lake City, 198.
  • Denver City, lawless violence of, 288.
  • Deserét, agricultural society of, 285.
  • Deserét, alphabet, the, 420.
  • Deserét Store, in Great Salt Lake City, 249.
  • Deserét, the land of the honey-bee, 169.
  • “Deserét News,” account of the, 255.
  • Desert, fertility of its eastern and western frontiers, 7.
  • Desert, from Fort Kearney to the base of the Rocky Mountains, 6.
  • Desert mostly uninhabited, 7.
  • Desert, the First, 167.
  • Desert, the Great, of Utah Territory, 455, 458.
  • Des Moines River, Indians west of the, 96.
  • Devil’s Backbone, the, 147.
  • Devil’s darning-needle, or dragon fly, 60.
  • Devil’s Gate, the celebrated kanyon of the, 151.
  • Devil’s Hole, the, 458, 459.
  • Devil’s Lake, Indians of, 97.
  • Devil’s Post-office, the, 154.
  • Diamond Springs, 60, 480.
  • Diamond Springs, tragedy at, 60.
  • Diseases of Utah Territory, 278.
  • Diseases to which the Indians are liable, 278.
  • “Divide,” the, between the Green River and Black’s Fork, 174.
  • “Divide,” the, between the Little Blue and Platte Rivers, 38.
  • “Divide,” the, between the Platte and Sweet-water Rivers, its sterility, 146.
  • Divorce among the Mormons, 427.
  • Dogs, Indian, 58, 472.
  • Dog-Teutons in the prairies, 62.
  • Dolphin Island, 327.
  • Doxology, Mormon, remarks on the fourteen articles of, 387, et seq.
  • Dragon-fly, or devil’s darning-needle, 60.
  • Dress, Indian, 57, 59.
  • Dress, of the Mormon fair sex, 227.
  • Drivers of mail-coaches, their immorality, 5.
  • Drivers or “rippers,” the, of the wagon-train, 23.
  • Drought, trials of, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 167.
  • Dry Creek, 483.
  • Dubail, Constant, the woodman, 466.
  • Dug-out, Joe, and his station, 334, 444.
  • Dust-storms in the Valley of the Platte, 75.
  • Dust-storms of Utah, 276, 450, 451.
  • Dust-storms on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 168.
  • East Kanyon Creek, 189.
  • Eau qui court, or Niobrara River, 40, 72.
  • Echo Kanyon, 184.
  • Echo Kanyon, beavers in the torrent-bed of, 187.
  • Echo Kanyon Station, 187.
  • Echo Kanyon, the Mormons’ breastworks in, 187.
  • Echo Kanyon, vegetation of, 187.
  • Education in Deserét and England compared, 545.
  • Education in Great Salt Lake City, 422, 423, 425.
  • Egan, Major Howard, 453.
  • Egan’s Creek, 183.
  • Egan’s Springs, 454, 455.
  • Egan’s Station, 467.
  • Eggs and bacon, a constant dish in the West, 38.
  • Eight-mile-Spring Kanyon, 465.
  • Eight-mile Springs, 465.
  • Elder, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 402.
  • Elk, the (Cervus Canadensis), habitat of, 68.
  • Emigrants, diseases to which they are liable, 279.
  • Emigrants, Mormon, arrival of, at Great Salt Lake City, 225-6.
  • “Emigration Road” in Kansas, 16.
  • Emigration Kanyon, 193.
  • Emigration, Mormon system of, 295.
  • Emigration, statistics of, 297.
  • Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
  • Endowment House, mysteries of the, 220.
  • Ensign Peak, spirit of Joseph Smith on, 196.
  • Evening in the prairies, 38.
  • Explorers, list of the principal, of the United States, who have published works on the subject, 171, 172, note.
  • Eye of the Indian, 105.
  • “Eye-opener,” an, 52.
  • Faces, Indian, 105, 106.
  • Faith, articles of the Mormon, 387, et seq.
  • Farms, Indian, 477.
  • Farriery of the Indians, 119.
  • Febrile affections in Great Salt Lake City, 279.
  • Feet of the Indians, 104.
  • Fences, “snake,” of the West, 188.
  • Feramorz, Colonel, 343.
  • Ferris, B. J., his work on Mormonism, 206, note.
  • Ferris, Mrs., her work on “The Mormons at Home,” 206, 207, note.
  • Ferry, the Lower, over the Platte, 140.
  • Fête at Great Salt Lake City, account of a, 230-2.
  • Fetichism of the North American Indians, 107.
  • “Fever, the Prairie,” 22.
  • Fingers considered as a trophy by the Indians, 142, note.
  • Fireflies, or lightning-bugs, 60.
  • Fires, prairie, 29.
  • Fires, prairie, mode of stopping, 29.
  • Fir-trees of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
  • Fish of the streams flowing from the Black Hills, 134.
  • Fish of the Sweetwater, 152.
  • Fish of the Wasach Lakes, 348.
  • Fish of Utah Lake, 334.
  • Fish Springs, 460.
  • Fish, water of Great Salt Lake fatal to, 326.
  • Fiumara. See Arroyo.
  • Floods of the Missouri, 16.
  • Flowers on the banks of La Grande Platte River, 41, 48, 53.
  • Folles Avoines Indians, 96, note.
  • Food prejudices, 65.
  • Foot of Ridge Station, near the Sweetwater, 159.
  • Fort Bridger, 178.
  • Fort Churchill, 493, 494.
  • Forts, frontier, a camel corps proposed for, 46.
  • Forts, frontier, of the United States described, 41, 42.
  • Forts, frontier, remarks on the army system of outposts in the United States, 43, 44.
  • Fox-River Indians, their tents, 86.
  • Fox-River, the, or Rivière des Puantes, 19.
  • Foxes in Echo Kanyon, 187.
  • Frémont, Colonel, his exploration of the Rocky Mountains, 164.
  • Frémont, Colonel, his traveling proprieties, 149.
  • FrémontIsland, 328.
  • Frémont Peak, in the Rocky Mountains, 153, 161.
  • Frémont Peak, its height above sea-level, 164.
  • Frémont Slough, 53.
  • Frémont Springs, station at, 53.
  • Frémont Springs, the model veranda at, 53.
  • Frogtown, or Fairfield, 335.
  • Fruit in the gardens of the Prophet, 269.
  • Fruit, wild, of Utah Territory, 283.
  • Funeral ceremonies of the Sioux Indians, 122.
  • Fustigator, the mammoth, of the American wagoners, 24.
  • Gambling, fondness of the North American Indian for, 117.
  • Game, abundance of, in the Wind-River Mountains, 68, 165.
  • Gamma, or gramma, grass of the slopes west of Fort Laramie, 7.
  • Gardens of the Prophet, in Great Salt Lake City, 269.
  • General Johnston’s Pass, 454.
  • Geological formation at Fort Laramie, 90.
  • Geological formation of Church Butte, 176.
  • Geological formation of Echo Kanyon, 184.
  • Geological formation of the banks of the Platte at Snow Creek, 141.
  • Geological formation of the Black Hills, 134.
  • Geological formation of the gold diggings, 484.
  • Geological formation of the Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, 72.
  • Geological formation of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153.
  • Geological formation of the valley of the Green River, 169.
  • Geological formation of Utah Territory, 194.
  • Geological formation westward of the fort, 91.
  • Germans in the prairies, their behavior, 62.
  • Gibraltar Gate, 488.
  • “Gift, an Indian,” the proverb, 103.
  • Gilston, Jim, of Illinois, 456.
  • Girls, Indian, 59.
  • Gold found in the Wind-River Mountains, 165.
  • Gold found in Utah Territory, 281.
  • Gold mines near the Great Salt Lake City, 270, 271.
  • Golden Pass of Emigration Kanyon, 193.
  • Gospel, grotesque accounts of the manner in which the Indians of old received the, 109.
  • Government of the Mormons, 301.
  • Grain, quantity produced in the Valley of Great Salt Lake, 284.
  • Grand Island, in the Platte River, 39.
  • Grand River, Neosho, or White Water, the Osages settled on the, 34.
  • Granite Mountain, 454.
  • Granite Rock, 462.
  • Grape, the Californian, 345.
  • Grass, bunch, 7.
  • Grass, salt, 148.
  • Grasses of the slopes west of Fort Laramie, 7.
  • Grasshopper Creek, 21.
  • Grasshoppers (Œdipoda corallipes), clouds of, in the prairies, 69.
  • Grasshoppers, ravages of, 69, 70.
  • Grasshoppers, scourge of, in Utah Territory, 284.
  • Grattan, Lieutenant, his fatal fight with the Sioux, 88.
  • Graves of the Mormon emigration route, 174.
  • Grazing-grounds in Utah Territory, 284.
  • Grazing-grounds of the West, their fertility and freedom from sickness, 7.
  • Greasewood at Black’s Fork, 176.
  • Greasewood the (Obione or Atriplex canescens), 158.
  • Great Salt Lake, account of an excursion to, 322.
  • Great Salt Lake, air on the shores of, 328.
  • Great Salt Lake bathing-place on, 329.
  • Great Salt Lake, buoyancy of, 329.
  • Great Salt Lake, history and geography of, 324.
  • Great Salt Lake, islands of, 327-8.
  • Great Salt Lake, lands immediately about, 330.
  • Great Salt Lake, quantity of salt in, 325.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Academy of the 7th Ward in, 360.
  • Great Salt Lake City, admirable site of, 196.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Agricultural Society of Deserét, 316.
  • Great Salt Lake City, arrival of caravan of emigrants at, 225-6.
  • Great Salt Lake City, cheapness of the necessaries of life at, 320.
  • Great Salt Lake City, coinage of, 356.
  • Great Salt Lake City, conduct of federal officials at, 421.
  • Great Salt Lake City, corporation of, 315.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Council Hall of the Seventies at, 229.
  • Great Salt Lake City, course of life in, 418-19.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Court-house of, 417.
  • Great Salt Lake City, crops in the valley of, 201.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Denmark Ward in, 198.
  • Great Salt Lake City, departure from, 441-3.
  • Great Salt Lake City, eastern wall of Great Salt Lake Valley, 195.
  • Great Salt Lake City, education in, 422, 423, 425.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Endowment House at, 220.
  • Great Salt Lake City, excursions in, 322.
  • Great Salt Lake City, first view of, 193.
  • Great Salt Lake City, foundation of the, 288.
  • Great Salt Lake City, gold mines in Utah, 271.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Governor Cumming, 215.
  • Great Salt Lake City, hand-labor, articles of, in, 320.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Historian and Recorder’s Office in, 419, 426.
  • Great Salt Lake City, houses of, 197, 198.
  • Great Salt Lake City, industry in, 316.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Lion House at, 246.
  • Great Salt Lake City, list of articles of industry at, 317-20, note.
  • Great Salt Lake City, militia of, 354-5.
  • Great Salt Lake City, murders committed in and near, 339.
  • Great Salt Lake City, newspapers published in, 255.
  • Great Salt Lake City, no market-place in, 201.
  • Great Salt Lake City, prices, 320-1.
  • Great Salt Lake City, principal schools in, 425.
  • Great Salt Lake City, promulgation of the Constitution at, 289, note.
  • Great Salt Lake City, public opinion in, 197.
  • Great Salt Lake City, roads from, to California, 452.
  • Great Salt Lake City, safety of, 224.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Salt Lake House Hotel, 201.
  • Great Salt Lake City, schools in, 345.
  • Great Salt Lake City, shops in, 217.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Social Hall and fêtes at, 230.
  • Great Salt Lake City, streets of, 216, 217.
  • Great Salt Lake City, supply of water in, 216, 217.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the Tabernacle at, 219, 220.
  • Great Salt Lake City, taxes of, 315.
  • Great Salt Lake City, Temple Block at, 217-23.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the Bee House at, 246.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the Bowery at, 220, 258.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the bulwarks of Zion at, 197.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the Penitentiary at, 271.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the Prophet’s house at, 234, 245-6.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the public and private offices of the Prophet at, 246.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the public library at, 235.
  • Great Salt Lake City, the River New Jordan, 233.
  • Great Salt Lake City, view of, from the Wasach Mountains, 359.
  • Great Salt Lake City, visit to the Prophet at, 237-8.
  • Green River, formation of the valley of the, 169.
  • Green River, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Green River, its breadth and depth, 171.
  • Green River, its length, volume, and direction, 171.
  • Green River, its tributaries, 167.
  • Green River, Macarthy’s station on the, 170.
  • Green River, Mountains, the, 153.
  • Green River, salmon trout of the, 170.
  • Green River, Spanish and Indian names of the, 171.
  • Green-River Station, 170, 172.
  • Green-River, wool-producing country in the basin of the, 284.
  • Grounds, Bad, or mauvaises terres of the United States, 6.
  • Grouse, pinnated, 142.
  • Guenot, Louis, his bridge over the Platte, 141.
  • Guess, George, the Cherokee chief, 35.
  • Guittard’s Station, 27.
  • Guittard’s Station, the host at, 27.
  • Gunnison, Lieutenant, his work on Mormonism, 203, 204, note.
  • Gunnison, Lieutenant, his resumé of Mormonism, 398.
  • Gunnison, Lieutenant, murder of, 339.
  • Gunnison’s Island, 327.
  • Hair, Indian mode of dressing the, 56.
  • Half-breeds, English and French, compared, 80.
  • Half-breeds, women, 80.
  • Half-way House, halt at the, 53.
  • Half-way House, the store at the, 53.
  • Ham’s Fork, 174.
  • Ham’s Fork, the wretched station at, 174, 175.
  • Hand-labor, articles of, in Great Salt Lake City, 320.
  • Hands of the Indians, 104.
  • Hanks, the redoubtable Mr. Ephe, the Danite, 191.
  • Hanks, stories of, 193.
  • Hapsaroke Indians, or Les Corbeaux, 124.
  • Hapsaroke Indians, sign of the tribe, 124.
  • Harney, General, his defeat of the Brûlé Sioux at Ash Hollow, 70, 89.
  • Harrowgate Springs in the Wasach Mountains, 360.
  • Hat Island, 327.
  • Hawkins’s rifles, 9.
  • Hayden, Dr. F. V., his opinion on coal in Nebraska, 141.
  • Heat of the sun beyond Ham’s Fork, 176.
  • Heath-hen, the, 142.
  • Hickman, Bill, the Danite, 191, 344.
  • Hierarchy of the Mormons, 399, 403.
  • High Mountain, 458.
  • Historian and Recorder’s Office in Great Salt Lake City, 419, 426.
  • Holmes, the ungenial man, 177.
  • Horse Creek, 79.
  • Horse Creek, breakfast at, 84.
  • Horse Creek, inmates of the station at, 80, 81.
  • Horse-fly, a green-headed, 168.
  • Horseshoe Creek, gold found at, 165.
  • Horseshoe Station, 91.
  • Horses, Indian, 56, 57-8.
  • Horses, of the Dakotah Indians, 99.
  • Horse-stealing, punishment for, in the Western States, 90, 360.
  • Hotels in Great Salt Lake City, 201.
  • Hotels in the Far West, 201, note.
  • Hot springs near Great Salt Lake City, 236.
  • Hot springs, analysis of the water of, 236, note.
  • Houses, materials of, in Great Salt Lake City, 197, 198.
  • Howard, Mr., 457.
  • Humboldt River, 480.
  • Hunkpapa Indians, 98.
  • Hunkpatidan Indians, 97.
  • Hunter, President Bishop, 226.
  • Huntingdon Valley, 480.
  • Hurricanes of Scott’s Bluffs, 78.
  • Hyde, John, his work on Mormonism, 208, note.
  • Ice springs, 158.
  • Ihanktonwan Indians, their habitat and present condition, 97.
  • Immorality of the mail-coach drivers, 5.
  • Independence Day, New, of the Mormons, 251, 349.
  • Independence Day, New, celebration of, 349, note.
  • India, remarks on the army system of outposts in, 43, 45.
  • Indian arms, 57, 119.
  • Indian arts, 118-19.
  • Indian boys and girls, 59, 107.
  • Indian camp, an, 472.
  • Indian character, 102-3.
  • Indian creed, few rites and ceremonies of the, 115.
  • Indian curriculum of the Prairie, 107.
  • Indian dancing, 110.
  • Indian departments of the United States, management of the, 132.
  • Indian dress, 57, 59.
  • Indian farms, 477.
  • Indian fighting, 43.
  • Indian half-breeds, 80.
  • Indian “home,” the, 32.
  • Indian horses, 56, 57-8.
  • Indian kleptomania, 60, 102, 103.
  • Indian marriages, 116.
  • Indian mode of hunting the buffalo and preparing the skins, 51, 52.
  • Indian mode of stampeding animals, 76-7.
  • Indian mode of wearing the hair, 56.
  • Indian names, 115.
  • Indian population in the middle of the last and present centuries, 99, note.
  • Indian prejudice against speaking, 80.
  • Indian religion of the, 107.
  • Indian reservation, distribution of the, 32.
  • Indian scalping, 112.
  • Indian skull, form and dimensions of the, 105.
  • Indian smoking, 110, 111-12.
  • Indian summer, the, 79, 483.
  • Indian, the name, a misnomer for American aborigines, 55.
  • Indian village, description of the remove of an, 56.
  • Indian villages and tents, 85.
  • Indian women, 106.
  • Indians, account of the Pawnees, 36.
  • Indians, best scheme for preserving the race of, 35.
  • Indians, causes which rapidly thin the tribesmen, 34.
  • Indians, difficulties attending the scheme of civilization of the, 36.
  • Indians, effects of alcohol among the various tribes of, 82.
  • Indians, ferocity of, and whites, 60.
  • Indians, grotesque accounts of the manner in which they formerly received the Gospel, 109.
  • Indians, how treated by the United States, 32.
  • Indians, kindness of the Mormons to the, 245.
  • Indians, languages of the northeastern tribes of, 96, note.
  • Indians, Lieutenant Weed’s defeat of the Gosh Yutas, 467, 470.
  • Indians, mistaken public opinion of the, and of their ancestors, 55.
  • Indians, proposals for raising native regiments of, 47.
  • Indians, the American philanthropist’s mode of civilizing the, 35.
  • Indians, the Comanches, 61, note.
  • Indians, the dignity of chief, 117.
  • Indians, their arrow-poison, 482.
  • Indians, their course of life, 117.
  • Indians, their future considered, 101.
  • Indians, their “home,” 32.
  • Indians, their murder of Loscier and Applegate, 484.
  • Indians, their opinion of their own strength, 101.
  • Indians, their progress toward extinction, 102.
  • Indians, their Turanian origin, 55.
  • Indians, the, of Utah Territory, 473.
  • Indians, the squaws, 59.
  • Indians, the Yutas, 474-6.
  • Indians, total number of, on the prairies and the Rocky Mountains, 33.
  • Indians, tribes and sub-tribes of the Sioux, 96.
  • Industry in Great Salt Lake City, 316.
  • Industry, list of articles of, 317-320, note.
  • Intoxicating drink, a new, 24, note.
  • Intoxicating drink, mode of manufacturing “Indian liquor,” 81-2.
  • Intoxicating drink, one made from a cactus, 64, note.
  • Irish women in the West, 175.
  • Iron County, coal and iron found in, 282.
  • Iron found in Utah Territory, 281.
  • Island, Antelope, or Church, 194, 323, 327.
  • Island, Bonhomme, 15.
  • Island, Carrington, 327.
  • Island, Cedar, the first, in the Missouri, 41.
  • Island, Dolphin, 327.
  • Island, Frémont, 328.
  • Island, Grande, in the Platte River, 39.
  • Island, Gunnison’s, 327.
  • Island, Hat, 327.
  • Island, Stansbury, 327.
  • Islets of La Grande Platte River, 40.
  • Itazipko, Sans Arc, or No-Bow Indians, their habitat, 98.
  • Itinerary, the emigrant’s, 505.
  • Itinerary of the mail route from Great Salt Lake City to San Francisco, 511.
  • Jack, the Arapaho Indian, and his squaw, 146, 147.
  • Jackal, the, of the Western world, 64. See Coyote.
  • Jacques, Elder John, his Mormon works, 212, note.
  • James River, Indians of, 97.
  • Jesuitism as a means of civilization of the Indians, 35.
  • Jimsen weed, 111.
  • Jo, St., city of, 12, 15.
  • Johnston’s Settlement, 451.
  • Jones, Elder Dan, his Mormon works, 213, note.
  • Jordan, New, its course in the Wasach Mountains, 332.
  • Jordan, New, the river in Great Salt Lake City, 233, 325.
  • “Jornada,” or day’s march, 167.
  • Junction-House Ranch, 53.
  • Kamas Prairie, 182, and note.
  • Kane, Colonel T. L., account of him, 204, note.
  • Kane, Colonel T. L., his work on the Mormons, 204, note.
  • Kansas, a specimen of squatter life in, 19.
  • Kansas, “bleeding,” 16.
  • Kansas, “gales,” 21.
  • Kansas, prairies of, 17.
  • Kansas, rainy season in, 16.
  • Kansas, shanties in, 18.
  • “Kansas-Nebraska Act,” passing of the, 33.
  • Kanyon Creek, Big, 191.
  • Kanyon Creek, Big, station at, 191.
  • Kanyon near Great Salt Lake City, purity of the water of the, 332.
  • Kanyon, the Devil’s Gate, 151.
  • Kanyons, stupendous, of Northern Mexico, 139, note.
  • Kanyons, the, of America, 139, note.
  • Kearney, Fort, 41.
  • Kearney, Fort, longitude of, 6.
  • Kelly, W., Esq., J. P., his chapters on Mormonism, 204, note.
  • “Keening” the dead practiced among the Indians, 122.
  • Kennedy, the Ras Kafilah, 455.
  • Kennedy’s Hole, 460.
  • Kennekuk, in Kansas, halt at, 19.
  • Kickapoo Indians, description of the, 20.
  • Kickapoo Indians, mode of building the tents of the, 85.
  • Kickapoo Indians, strength of the tribe of, 20.
  • Kickapoo Indians, the, 19.
  • Kimball, Heber C., his address in the Bowery, 262.
  • Kimball, Heber C., the president, account of, 241.
  • Kinnikinik smoked by the American Indian, 111.
  • Kinnikinik, the, 31.
  • Kiowa Creek, Little, 79.
  • Kiowa Indians, lodges of the, 86.
  • Kiowa Indians, or Prairie-men, sign of the tribe of the, 124.
  • Kisiskadjiwan River, Indians on the, 100.
  • Kit, the traveler’s, 9.
  • Kiyuksa, or breakers of law, Indians, 97.
  • Kleptomania of the Indians, 60.
  • Kleptomania of the Sioux, 102, 103.
  • La Bonté Creek, 135.
  • “Ladies” in the Prairies, 91, 92.
  • Lake Alkali, 153.
  • Lake Carson, 274, 491.
  • Lake Cotton-wood, Great, 347.
  • Lake Devil’s, 97.
  • Lake Great Salt, 194, 322, 323.
  • Lake Little Salt, 274.
  • Lake Miniswakan, 100.
  • Lake Mono, 274.
  • Lake Mud, 274.
  • Lake Nicollet, 274.
  • Lake of the Hot Springs, 195.
  • Lake of the Wasach Mountains, 347.
  • Lake of the Woods, 100.
  • Lake Pyramid, 274.
  • Lake qui Parle, 96.
  • Lake Saleratus, 147.
  • Lake Stone, 96.
  • Lake Traverse, 96.
  • Lake Utah, or Sweet-water Reservoir, 274, 332, 446.
  • Lake, Walker’s, 274.
  • Lake Winnipeg, 100.
  • Lakes, Three, 161.
  • Lance, the, of the North American Indian, 119.
  • Land-tenure of the Mormons, 290.
  • Lander’s Cut-off, 158.
  • Language, its peculiarities, 121.
  • Language, men’s first and progressive steps in, 121.
  • Language, the, of the Sioux, 120.
  • Language, the pantomime of the Indians, or sign-system of, 123.
  • Languages of the Northeastern Indians, 96, note.
  • Laramie City, 88.
  • Laramie City, prices of skins at, 88.
  • Laramie, Fort, climate and soil at, 90.
  • Laramie, Fort, formerly Fort John, 90.
  • Laramie, Fort, longitude of, 6.
  • Laramie, Fort, vegetation of the slopes west of, 7.
  • Laramie Hills, geography of the, 134.
  • Laramie Peak, 79.
  • Laramie’s Fork, 90.
  • Lasso, the, 68.
  • Last-Timber Station, 71, note.
  • Lawrence Fork, 71.
  • Lawrence Fork, origin of the name, 72.
  • Leadplant (Amorphe canescens), the, of the American wilderness, 64.
  • Leaf-shooter Indians, 96.
  • Leather manufactured at Great Salt Lake City, 344.
  • Leeches, American, 466-7.
  • Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory, 310.
  • Lehi City, 447.
  • Liberty-poles in the United States, 251.
  • Library, public, of Great Salt Lake City, 235.
  • Lightning-bug, or fire-fly, 60.
  • Lignite in Nebraska, 141.
  • Lion House in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
  • Lion, the mountain, or cougar, 153, and note.
  • Litters, Indian, 58.
  • Little Mountain, 192.
  • Little Mr., his tannery, 344.
  • Locknan’s Station, 21.
  • Locknan’s Station, vegetation of, 21.
  • Lodge-Pole Creek, or Fork, 64.
  • Lodge-Pole Station, 66.
  • Lodge-Pole Station, squalor and wretchedness of, 66.
  • London, Mormon meeting-houses in and about, 301, note.
  • Long-chin, the Indian murderer, 85.
  • Long Valley, 471.
  • Look-out Fort, 97.
  • Louis, St., altitude and temperature of, 159.
  • Loup Fork, ferry across, 71, note.
  • Lynch, Lieutenant W. F., his proprieties of travel, 150.
  • Lynn, Catharine Lewis, her work on Mormonism, 206, note.
  • Macarthy, Mr., his establishment, 170, 172.
  • Macarthy, Mr., his rough-and-tumble, 183.
  • Macarthy, Mr., of Green-River Station, 170.
  • Mail-coach route from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4.
  • Mail-coach, slow rate of traveling, 5.
  • Main, or Whisky Street, in Great Salt Lake City, 217.
  • Maize, question as to its being indigenous to America, 110, note.
  • Majors, Mr. Alexander, his efforts to reform the morals of his mail drivers, 5.
  • Mankizitah, or White-Earth River, 72.
  • Manna in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
  • Manufacturers in Utah Territory, 317-20.
  • Marcy, Major, 73.
  • Marcy, Major, his “Prairie Traveler” quoted, 4.
  • Market-place, absence of a, in Great Salt Lake City, 201.
  • Marriage among the Mormons, 427, 432.
  • Marriage among the North American Indians, 116.
  • Marshall, James W., his discovery of Californian gold, 356.
  • Martin, Michael, his store, 173.
  • Marysville, or old Palmetto City, trade of, 29.
  • Materialism, Mormon, 384.
  • Matriya, the “Scattering Bear,” death of, 89.
  • Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, extent of the, 72.
  • Mdewakantonwan Indians, civilization of the, 100.
  • Mdewakantonwan Indians, habitat of the, 96.
  • Meadow Creek, 451, 452.
  • Medical men in Great Salt Lake City, 278.
  • Medicine-man of the Indians, 108.
  • Medicine, the Indians’ knowledge of, 118, 119.
  • Medicines necessary to the Western traveler, 9, 10.
  • Menomene Indians, habitat of the, 96.
  • Menomene Indians, tents of the, 86.
  • Meteorology of Utah Territory, 275.
  • Methodism, foundation of, 365.
  • Mexico, Northern, stupendous kanyons of, 139, note.
  • Mezquite, or muskeet-tree (Algarobia glandulosa), 7.
  • Midway Station, 49.
  • Military departments into which the United States are divided, 42, 43, note.
  • Militia force of Great Salt Lake City, 354-5.
  • Militia force of the United States, general abstract of the, 336, 337.
  • Milk River, Indians of, 100.
  • Milk weed (Asclepias tuberosa) common in Utah Territory, 167.
  • Milk-sickness of the Western States, 284.
  • Mill Creek, 195.
  • Miller, Captain, of Millersville, 215.
  • Miller’s Station, 495.
  • Millersville, on Smith’s Fork, 177.
  • Mills, saw, a night passed in one of the, 348.
  • Mills, saw, in the kanyons, 347.
  • Miniswakan Lake, 100.
  • Minnesota Indians, 96, 97.
  • Minnikanye-wozhipu Indians, habitat of the, 98.
  • Mirage, a curious, 47, 48.
  • Mirage, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 164.
  • Missionaries, certificates supplied to, 353, 354, note.
  • Missionaries, from Great Salt Lake City, 353, 354.
  • Missionaries, number of, in Great Britain, 301.
  • Mississippi, the, 15.
  • Mississippi, Indians of the, 96.
  • “Missouri Compromise,” the, 33.
  • “Missouri Compromise,” the, origin of the trouble which gave rise to the, 33, 34, note.
  • Missouri, establishment of the mail-coach route from, to California and Oregon, 4.
  • Missouri, rainy season in, 16.
  • Missouri River, navigation of the, 15.
  • Missouri River, sand-banks of the, 15.
  • Missouri River, sawyers and snags of the, 15.
  • Missouri River, the Great, 15.
  • Missouri River, the Little, Indians of the, 15.
  • Missouri River, winter season on the, 16.
  • Moccasins, Indian mode of making, 57.
  • Moccasins, use of, to the prairie traveler, 11.
  • Modesty, Mormon, instance of, 268.
  • Mollusks of Utah Territory, 280.
  • Mono Lake, 274.
  • Montagnes Rocheuses, Les, 153, 162.
  • Moonshine Valley, 480.
  • Moore, “Miss,” and her ranche, 154.
  • Moore, “Miss,” her history, 155.
  • Moose deer (Cervus Alces), habitat of the, 68.
  • Moravianism regarded as a means of civilization of the Indians, 35.
  • Mormon agglomeration of all that is good in all sects, 397, 398.
  • Mormon balls and suppers at Social Hall, 230-2.
  • Mormon Bible, 367.
  • Mormon Bible, contents of the, 368, note.
  • “Mormon, Book of,” 367, note.
  • “Mormon, Book of,” chronology of the most important events recorded in the, 411.
  • Mormon Conference, description of a, 302-309.
  • Mormon dispensation of Mr. Joseph Smith, 183.
  • Mormon doctrines and covenants, 371.
  • Mormon doxology, remarks on the fourteen articles of the, 387, et seq.
  • Mormon emigrants, 137, 176, 180, 181, 182, 225.
  • Mormon emigrants, miseries of one of the, 174, 175.
  • Mormon emigration, system of, 295.
  • Mormon emigration, the regular track of, 174.
  • Mormon estimate of outfit for the Utah route, 138, note.
  • Mormon feat at Simpson’s Hollow, 168.
  • Mormon feat near Green River, 173.
  • Mormon fugitives on the road, 456.
  • Mormon gift of tongues, 268.
  • Mormon government, upon what it is based, 301.
  • Mormon hierarchy, the, 399.
  • Mormon History, chronological abstract of, 548.
  • Mormon lad, a, in the South Pass, 166.
  • Mormon lectures on faith, 371.
  • Mormon materialism, 384.
  • Mormon meaning of the word, 361-2.
  • Mormon meeting-rooms in London and its vicinity, list of, 301, note.
  • Mormon modesty, 268.
  • Mormon names, 227.
  • Mormon neophytes, behavior of the, 228-9.
  • Mormon polygamy, 373, 426, 428, 431, 432.
  • Mormon Prophet, visit to the, 237, et seq.
  • Mormon Saints, dress of the fair, 227.
  • Mormon Scriptures, list of the, 209, note.
  • Mormon shanty, Dawvid Lewis and his dirty, 174, 175.
  • Mormon tolerance, 351.
  • Mormon wagons, trains of, on the road, 137, 176, 180, 181.
  • Mormonism, deep root which it has taken in Great Britain, 301.
  • Mormonism, final remarks on, 441.
  • Mormonism, Lieutenant Gunnison’s resumé of, 398.
  • Mormonism, list of works published upon the subject of, 203, note.
  • Mormonism, objections to, 404.
  • Mormonism, sketch of, 361, et seq.
  • Mormonism, what it is not, 403.
  • Mormonland, account of, 272.
  • Mormons, children of the, 423.
  • Mormons, description of their Temple, 514.
  • Mormons, fondness of the, for sleighing, private theatricals, and dancing, 229-31.
  • Mormons, foundation of their city, 288.
  • Mormons, how they regard the United States, 250.
  • Mormons, kindness of the, to the Indians, 245.
  • Mormons, period for, leaving the Mississippi, 138.
  • Mormons, political prospects of the, 352.
  • Mormons, promulgation of their Constitution, 289, note.
  • Mormons, remarks upon the articles of their doxology, 387, et seq.
  • Mormons, sketch of the religion of the, 361.
  • Mormons, tenure by which they hold their lands, 290.
  • Mormons, their belief as to marriages between a Saint and a Gentile, 170, note.
  • Mormons, their complaints against Congress, 289, 290.
  • Mormons, their Emigration Road, 71.
  • Mormons, their hierarchy, 399.
  • Mormons, their materialism, 384.
  • Mormons, their Nauvoo Legion, 354-5.
  • Mormons, their new Independence-day, 251.
  • Mormons, their newspapers, 255.
  • Mormons, their politics, 251.
  • Mormons, their polygamy, 373.
  • Mormons, their punishment for adultery, 252.
  • Mormons, their quasi-military organization on the march, 138.
  • Mormons, their sermons in the Bowery, 260, 264.
  • Mormons, their tithes, 249-50.
  • Morning on the prairies, 131.
  • Motherhood, how regarded in the Western States, 432.
  • Moufflon, the American, 153, 155.
  • Mountain, Big, 190.
  • Mountain, Ensign, 196.
  • Mountain, Little, 192.
  • Mountain Meadow Massacre, 339.
  • Mountain Point, 195, 459.
  • Mountain, Quaking-Asp, 181.
  • Mountain, Rim-Base, 181.
  • Mountain Springs, 462.
  • “Mountaineer,” Mormon newspaper, 257.
  • Mountaineers of the West, 81.
  • Mountains, Bear-River, 174.
  • Mountains, Black, 133, 142.
  • Mountains, Granite, 454.
  • Mountains, Green-River, or Sweet-water Hills, 153.
  • Mountains, High, 458.
  • Mountains, Laramie, 91, 134.
  • Mountains, Laramie Peak, 79, 85.
  • Mountains of Utah Territory, singular formation of the, 275.
  • Mountains, Oquirrh, 191, 194, 322.
  • Mountains, Rocky, 153, et seq.
  • Mountains, Traverse, 332.
  • Mountains, Uinta, 176, 178.
  • Mountains, Wasach, 189, 195, 322, 330.
  • Mountains, White, 450.
  • Mountains, Wind-River, 68, 162, 163, 164, 166.
  • Mud Lake, 274.
  • Mud Spring station, 71.
  • Muddy Creek, Big, 180.
  • Muddy Creek, Little, 140, 180.
  • Muddy Creek, Little, the Canadian station-master at, 180.
  • Muddy Creek, Little, wretched station at, 140.
  • Muddy Fork, 174.
  • Mules in the West, 135.
  • Mules, obstinacy of, 14.
  • Mules, of Central America, 13, 14.
  • Mules, rate of progress of, 14.
  • Mules, recalcitrancies of, 157, 167.
  • Murder, Mormon punishment for, 426.
  • Murders in and near Great Salt Lake City, 225, 339.
  • Murders in Carson City, 225.
  • Murphy, Captain, his loyalty, 181.
  • Muskrat Station, 159.
  • Muskrat the, 159, note.
  • Mustang of the Black Hills, 142.
  • Mustang the, or prairie pony, 68, note.
  • Myers, Mr., the Mormon of Bear-River Valley, 182.
  • Mysteries of Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
  • Names, Indian, 115.
  • Names, of the Mormons, 227.
  • Nauvoo Legion, account of the, 354-5.
  • Nauvoo Legion, story of two warriors of the, 187.
  • Nebraska, meaning of the word, 40.
  • Nebraska River. See Platte, La Grande.
  • Nebraska, Southern, rainy season in, 16.
  • Needle Rocks, 183.
  • Nemehaw Creek, Big, 21.
  • Neophytes, Mormon, behavior of the, 228-9.
  • Newspapers in Great Salt Lake City, 255.
  • Nicollet Lake, 274.
  • Niobrara, or Eau qui court River, 40, 72.
  • Nullah. See Arroyo.
  • Oats, wild (Avena fatua), of the Pacific water-shed, 139.
  • “Obelisks, the,” 188.
  • O’Fallon’s Bluffs, 48, 53.
  • Officials, federal, behavior in Great Salt Lake City of the, 421.
  • Ojibwa Indians, habitat of the, 100, 101.
  • Ojibwa, the name, 100, note.
  • Ogalala, or Okandanda Indians, habitat of the, 98.
  • Ogalala, village of the, 85.
  • Omaha Creek, or Little Punkin, 71.
  • Onions, wild, of the valley of the Little Blue River, 31.
  • Oohenonpa Indians, habitat and numbers of the, 98.
  • Ophthalmia in Utah Territory, 278.
  • Opinion, public, in Great Salt Lake City, 197.
  • Oquirrh Mountains, 191, 194, 322.
  • Oregon, boundary-stone between it and Utah, 169.
  • Oregon, establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to, 4.
  • Oregon, origin of the name, 169, note.
  • Ormsby, Mayor, his death, 479.
  • Osages, account of the tribe of the, 34.
  • Osages, cession of the territory of the, 34.
  • Osages, mode of building the lodges of the, 85.
  • Ottagamies, the Indian tribe of, 20, note.
  • Outfit, the traveler’s, 9.
  • Outposts, remarks on the United States army system of, 43, 44.
  • Owl, the burrowing (Strix cunicularia), 66.
  • Oxen shod at Great Salt Lake City, 270.
  • Ox-riding, 24, note.
  • Pabakse, or Cut-Head Indians, 97.
  • Pacific Creek, 167.
  • Pacific Railroad, difficulties of a, 277.
  • Pacific Railroad, routes proposed for a, 3.
  • Pacific Springs, 163.
  • Pacific Springs, station at, 163, 166.
  • Padouca River, 60, 63.
  • Pantomime, Indian, or speaking with the fingers, 123.
  • Pantomime, preliminary signs for the traveler, 124.
  • Pantomime, signs of some of the Indian tribes, 123.
  • Pantomime, various other signs, 124-30.
  • Panama, 501.
  • Parley’s Kanyon, 195, 344.
  • Patriarch, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
  • Pawnee Indians, account of the, 36.
  • Pawnee Indians, principal sub-tribes of the, 37.
  • Pawnee Indians, readiness of the, to cut off a single traveler, 138.
  • Pawnee Indians, sign of the tribe of the, 123.
  • Peddlers, licensed and unlicensed, 81.
  • Penitentiary, the, of Great Salt Lake City, 271.
  • Phelps, Judge and Apostle, his “Sermon on the Mount,” 196, note.
  • Phelps, Judge and Apostle, visit to, 253.
  • Pigeons a constant dish in Italy, 38.
  • “Pike’s Peakers” on the road, 60.
  • Pine-tree Stream, 174.
  • Pine Valley, 480.
  • Piñon-tree, fruit of the, 466.
  • Piñon-tree (P. monophyllus) of the West, 285.
  • Pipes of the Côteau des Prairies, 88.
  • “Pitch-holes or chuck-holes” of the prairies, 18.
  • Placerville City, 499.
  • Platte Bridge, delicious climate of, 137.
  • Platte, Fort, 90.
  • Platte River, a dust storm in the valley of the, 75.
  • Platte River, appearance of the, at Platte Bridge, 136.
  • Platte River, beauty of the banks of the, 39.
  • Platte River, character of the soil beyond the immediate banks of the, 41.
  • Platte River, coal found on the banks of the, 141.
  • Platte River, division of the, into the northern and southern streams, 60.
  • Platte River, farewell to the, 146.
  • Platte River, fording the, 63.
  • Platte River, La Grande, or Nebraska, 39.
  • Platte River, Lower Ferry over the, 140.
  • Platte River, noxious exhalations from the, 48.
  • Platte River, shallowness of the, 40.
  • Platte River, tender adieux at the upper crossing of the, 62.
  • Platte River, timber on the banks of the, 40, 41.
  • Platte River, wild garden on the shores of the, 41.
  • Pleasant Valley, 461.
  • Plum Creek, 48.
  • Plum Creek Ranche, soil about, 48.
  • Poetry of the Sioux Indians, 122.
  • Point Look-out, 454.
  • Poison Springs, 461.
  • Poisons, animal and vegetable, of the Prairie Indians, 120.
  • Polar plant, the, 48.
  • Police, private, of Mormon life, 224.
  • Police, public, of Great Salt Lake City, 224.
  • Polygamy among the Mormons, 373, 426.
  • Polygamy, justification of, 384.
  • Polygamy, Mrs. Pratt’s letter on, 433, et seq.
  • Polygamy, results of, 428.
  • Polygamy, revelation to Joseph Smith on, 373.
  • Polygamy, views of women respecting, 431.
  • Pony Express, the, 28, note.
  • Pony Express, the, on the road, 169.
  • Pony Express, postage by the, 29.
  • Pony Express, riders of the, 29.
  • Population of Utah Territory, 294.
  • Population of Utah Territory, excess of females, 301.
  • Populus tremuloides, the, 180.
  • Postal system of the United States, evils of the contract system, 172, 173, note.
  • Powder River, Indians of the, 97.
  • Prairie, absence of animal life on the, 18.
  • Prairie, an evening in the, 38.
  • Prairie compass, the, 48.
  • Prairie dog, the (Cynomys Ludovicianus), 66.
  • Prairie dog, his associates, reptiles, birds, and beasts, 66.
  • Prairie-dog village, 65.
  • Prairie fever, cause of the, 22.
  • Prairie, fires, the, 29.
  • Prairie, fires, effects of, on the temperature of the air, 79.
  • Prairie hen, heath hen, or pinnated grouse, 142.
  • Prairie, land of the United States, 6.
  • Prairie, monotony of the, 18.
  • Prairie, monotony of the rolling, 69.
  • Prairie, or “perrairey,” the Western, peculiarities of the, 17.
  • Prairie, pitch-holes or “chuck-holes” of the, 18.
  • Prairie pony, or mustang, 68, note.
  • Prairie saddle, the, 24, 25.
  • Prairie, skeleton of the earth at the bluffs, 29.
  • Prairie squirrel, the (Spermophilus tredecimlineatus), 159, note.
  • Prairie storm, a, 21.
  • Prairie the grand, 17.
  • “Prairie Traveler,” the, of Captain R. B. Marcy, quoted, 4.
  • Prairie trees, progressive decay of the, 69.
  • Prairie turnip, the, 182, note.
  • Prairie “weed,” 48.
  • Prairie wolf, or coyote, 64.
  • Prairie, wolf, the, 30.
  • Prairies, alternate puffs of hot and cold winds in the, 79.
  • Prairies, blanched bones on the, 48.
  • Prairies, clouds of grasshoppers in the, 69.
  • Prairies, names of different kinds of, 48.
  • Prairies, the buffalo the “monarch of the,” 50.
  • Pratt, Mrs. Belinda M., letter of, on polygamy, 433, et seq.
  • Pratt, Orson, account of, 353.
  • Pratt, Orson, “the Gauge of Philosophy,” Mormon works of, 212, note.
  • Pratt, Parley P., Mormon works of, 211, 212, note.
  • Pratt, Parley P., murder of, 340, and note.
  • Prêle River, the, 136.
  • President, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 399.
  • Prices in Great Salt Lake City, 321.
  • Priests, high, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 399.
  • Prophecies of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, 356, note.
  • Protestantism, origin of, 364.
  • Provo City, 189, 219, 333, note.
  • Provo River, 333.
  • Puma, the, 153, note.
  • Punishments, Indian, 103.
  • Punkin Creek, Little, 71.
  • Pyramid Lake, 274.
  • Quaking-Asp Creek, 161.
  • Quaking-Asp Hill, 181.
  • Quaking-Asp (Populus tremuloides), 180.
  • Rabbit-bush, the, 158.
  • Race-course Bluff, 179.
  • Railroad Kanyon, 480.
  • Railroad, Pacific, Mr. Jefferson Davis’s estimate of the cost of the, 3, note.
  • Rain-storms at Weber-River Station, 188.
  • Rainy season in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Southern Nebraska, 16.
  • “Ranch,” the, at Turkey Creek, 30.
  • Rancho, the, in Mexico and California, 5, note.
  • Rattlesnake bites and their remedies, 156.
  • Rattlesnake Hills, the, 151, 153.
  • Rattlesnakes, 156.
  • Red Butte, 195.
  • Red region, the, 136.
  • Reese’s River, 486.
  • Regshaw, Mr., his bridge over the Platte, 140.
  • Reid, Captain Mayne, remarks on his “Wild Huntress,” 209, note.
  • Religion of the Indians generally, 107.
  • Religion of the Mormons, sketch of the, 361, et seq.
  • Religion of the Sioux, 103.
  • Religions of the United States, list of, 363, note.
  • Remy, Jules, and Mr. Brenchley, their work on the Mormons, 204, note.
  • Revenge, Indian, 103.
  • Revolvers, value of, 9.
  • Reynal, M., of Horse-Creek Station, 80.
  • Reynal, M., sketch of, and his career, 81.
  • Rice, the wild (Zizania aquatica), 96, note.
  • Richland town extinct, 21.
  • Rifles, Hawkins’s, 9.
  • Riggs’s, Rev. S. R., dictionary of the Sioux language, 120, 121.
  • River, Assiniboin, 100.
  • River Bank and Stream camping-ground on the Sweetwater, 158.
  • River, Bear, 182, 325.
  • River, Black’s Fork, 174, 176, 177.
  • River, Blue, Big, 29.
  • River, Blue Earth, 96.
  • River, Blue, Little, 31, 38.
  • River, Cannon, 96.
  • River, Carson, 493.
  • River, Colorado, 162.
  • River, Columbia, 162.
  • River, Des Moines, 96.
  • River, Fox, 19.
  • River, Frémont’s Peak, 153, 161, 164.
  • River, Grand, Neosho, or White-Water, 34.
  • River, Green, 162, 166, 170, 284.
  • River, Ham’s Fork, 174.
  • River, Humboldt, 480.
  • River, James, 97.
  • River, Kisiskadjiwan, 100.
  • River, Milk, 100.
  • River, Mississippi, 15, 97.
  • River, Missouri, 15, 97.
  • River, Missouri, Little, 97.
  • River, Muddy Fork, 174.
  • River, New Jordan, 233, 325.
  • River, Niobrara, or Eau qui court, 40, 72.
  • River, Padouca, 60, 63.
  • River, Platte, La Grande, or Nebraska, 39, 60.
  • River, Platte, 162.
  • River, Powder, 97.
  • River, Prêle, 136.
  • River, Reese’s, 485, 486.
  • River, Sandy, Big, 30, 169.
  • River, Sandy, Little, 30.
  • River, Sioux, Big, 97.
  • River, Smith’s Fork, 176.
  • River, Snake, 162.
  • River, Snowy-Peak, 164.
  • River, Sweetwater, or Pina Pa, 150, 158, 161, 162.
  • River, Timpanogos, 182, 333.
  • River, Weber, 182, 188, 189, 325.
  • River, White-Earth, or Mankizitah, 72.
  • River, Wind, 162.
  • River, Yellow-Stone, 162.
  • Road from Fort Kearney, 47.
  • Road from the Black Hills, 134.
  • Roads from Great Salt Lake City to California, 452.
  • Roads, junction of the Great Salt Lake City and Fort Hall, 167.
  • Robber’s Roost Station, 468.
  • Robidoux, Antoine, notice of, 75, note.
  • Robidoux, Fort, 75.
  • Robinson (“Uncle Jack”), 177.
  • Rock, Independence, 148.
  • Rock, Independence, names inscribed on, 149.
  • Rock or Turkey Creek, 30.
  • Rock or Turkey Creek, the “ranch” at, 30.
  • “Rocks” of the West, 19.
  • Rockwell, Orrin Porter, account of, 448-9.
  • Rockwell, Orrin Porter, excellent advice of, 449.
  • Rockwell, Orrin Porter, the Danite, 191.
  • Rocky Mountains, a humble-bee on the topmost summit of the, 165.
  • Rocky Mountains, first view of the, 153.
  • Rocky Mountains, heights of the, 7, 153, et seq.
  • Rocky Mountains, surface of the land on the western slopes of the, 8.
  • Rocky Mountains, temperature on the counterslope of the South Pass of the, 168.
  • Rogers, Colonel, or “Uncle Billy,” 471.
  • Rose, the apostate Jew and Mormon, 456.
  • Routes proposed for a Pacific Railroad, 3.
  • Routes proposed for a Pacific Railroad, difficulties of, 277.
  • Ruby Valley, 471.
  • Russell, Mr. W. H., and the Pony Express, 28, and note.
  • Russell, Mr. W. H., and the Pony Express, slowness of the transport by, 136.
  • Rush Valley, 451, 453.
  • Sac Indians, tents of the, 86.
  • Sac Indians, the, 19.
  • Saddle, the native Indian, 25.
  • Saddle, the prairie, 24, 25.
  • Sage at Rocky-Bridge Station, 161.
  • Sage hen or prairie-hen, 142.
  • Sage Springs, 486.
  • Sage, wild (artemisia or absinthe), description of, 53, 54.
  • Saleratus Lake, 147, 148.
  • Saleratus Lake, startling appearance of, 148.
  • Salmon trout of the Green River, 170.
  • Salt grass, 148.
  • Salt Lake City, Great. See Great Salt Lake City.
  • Salt Lake, Great. See Great Salt Lake.
  • Salt Lake House Hotel, 201.
  • Salt Lake, Little, 274.
  • Salt, quantity of, in the water of Great Salt Lake, 325-6.
  • Saltpetre not found in Utah Territory, 282.
  • San Francisco, 500.
  • Sand-banks of the Missouri, 15.
  • Sand hills, the tract called the, 70, note.
  • Sand Springs Station, 491.
  • Sandstone at Grasshopper Creek, 21.
  • Sandy Creek, 71.
  • Sandy Creek, Big, or Wágáhongopá, 167.
  • Sandy Creek, Little, 167.
  • Sandy River, Big, 30, 169.
  • Sandy River, Little, 30, 169.
  • Sans Arc Sioux Indians, habitat of the, 98.
  • Sault Ste. Marie, Indians at, 100.
  • Saurians of Utah Territory, 280.
  • Sawyers and snags of the Missouri, 15.
  • Scalping, origin of the custom of, 112.
  • Scalping, considered as a religious rite, 113.
  • Schools in Great Salt Lake City, 345.
  • Schools, principal, 425.
  • Scott’s Bluffs, 77.
  • Scott’s Bluffs, hurricanes of, 78.
  • Scott’s Bluffs, origin of the name, 78.
  • Scythians, scalping rites of the, 112.
  • Seasons, the, in Utah Territory, 277.
  • Seneca City, in Kansas, 21.
  • Seventeen-mile Station, 48.
  • Seventies, the, in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
  • Sevier, Mr., the Mormon, 463.
  • Shanties, 18.
  • Shanties, of Seneca City, 21, 22.
  • Shanties, origin of the word, 18, note.
  • Shanty, a, in Kansas, 19.
  • Shanty, the, at Pacific Springs, 166.
  • Shanty, the dirty, of Ham’s Fork, 174, 175.
  • Shawnees, their lodges, 86.
  • Sheawit Creek, 482.
  • Shell Creek, 465, 466.
  • Shops in Great Salt Lake City, 217.
  • Shoshonee Indians, 473-4.
  • Shoshonee Indians, their friendliness to whites, 165.
  • Sibley, Major, his improved tent, 87.
  • Sichangu, Brûlé, or Burnt-Thigh Indians, habitat of the, 98.
  • Sierra Nevada, the, 493.
  • Sign-system of language among the Indians, 123.
  • Silva, Luis, and his wife, 154.
  • Silver found in Utah Territory, 281.
  • Silver, virgin, found in the White Mountains, 450, note.
  • Simpson’s Hollow, 168.
  • Simpson’s Hollow, feat of the Mormons at, 168.
  • Simpson’s Park, 485.
  • Simpson’s Pass, 486.
  • Simpson’s Road, 481.
  • Sioux Indian, a “buck,” 89.
  • Sioux Indian, meaning of the name “Sioux,” 95, 96.
  • Sioux Indians, books printed in their tongue, 120, 121.
  • Sioux Indians, character of the, 102.
  • Sioux Indians, constitution of the, 104.
  • Sioux Indians, dependence of the, on the buffalo for subsistence, 51.
  • Sioux Indians, destruction of Lieutenant Grattan and his party by the, 88.
  • Sioux Indians, funeral ceremonies of the, 122.
  • Sioux Indians, future of the, 100, 101.
  • Sioux Indians, habits of the, in former times and at present, 102.
  • Sioux Indians, language of the, 120.
  • Sioux Indians, lodges of the, 86.
  • Sioux Indians, manners and customs of the, 99.
  • Sioux Indians, murder of M. Montalan by the, 91.
  • Sioux Indians, poetry and songs of the, 122.
  • Sioux Indians, present habitat of the, 95.
  • Sioux Indians, principal bands into which the race is divided, 95-98.
  • Sioux Indians, religion of the, 103.
  • Sioux Indians, revenge of the, 103.
  • Sioux Indians, sacred language of the, 122.
  • Sioux Indians, sign of the tribe of, 124.
  • Sioux Indians, skill in archery of the, 120.
  • Sioux Indians, the Brûlé, their defeat at Ash Hollow, 70.
  • Sioux Indians, women of the, 103.
  • Sioux River, Big, 97.
  • Sisahapa, or Blackfeet Indians, 98.
  • Sisitonwan Indians, habitat of the, 96.
  • Skins, prices of, at Laramie City, 88.
  • Skull of the Indian, its form and dimensions, 105.
  • Skull Valley, 454.
  • Skunk, the, 189.
  • Slade, the redoubtable, 92, 173.
  • Slavery legalized in Utah, 243.
  • Sleighing in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
  • Smith, Captain John, the Mormon patriarch, 180.
  • Smith, George A., the Mormon apostle, account of, 241.
  • Smith, Joseph, account of the martyrdom of, 517.
  • Smith, Joseph, his works, 209, 210, note.
  • Smith, Joseph, his second son David, 241.
  • Smith, Joseph, his son Joseph, of Nauvoo, 240.
  • Smith, Joseph, vindicated, 405-6.
  • Smith, Mrs. M. E. V., her works on Mormonism, 207, 208, note.
  • Smith’s Creek, 486.
  • Smith’s Fork, 176.
  • Smoking among the American Indians, 110.
  • Smoking material of the Wild Man of the North, 31.
  • Smoky Valley, 484.
  • Smoot, Bishop Abraham O., his address in the Bowery, 260.
  • “Smudge,” a, before sleep, 165.
  • Snags and sawyers of the Missouri, 15.
  • Snake Indians at Ham’s Fork, 174.
  • Snake Indians, lodges of the, 86.
  • Snake River, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Snake River, Indian name for, 167, note.
  • Snakeroots, 156, 157, note.
  • Snow Creek, 140.
  • Snow Creek, country about, 141, 142.
  • Snow, Lorenzo, his Mormon works, 212, note.
  • Snowy Peak, 164.
  • Social Hall in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
  • Social Hall, fêtes at, 230, 231.
  • Soda, carbonate of, in Saleratus Lake, 147, and note.
  • Soda, or Beer Springs, 179.
  • Soil at Fort Laramie, 90.
  • Soil beyond the immediate banks of La Grande Platte River, 41.
  • Soil near Plum Ranche, on the Platte River, 48.
  • Soil of Big Sandy River, 169.
  • Soil of the bench-land of Great Salt Lake Valley, 195.
  • Soil of the country beyond the Warm Springs, 158.
  • Soil of the Valley of the Black Hills, 134.
  • Soil of Utah Territory, 283.
  • Soldiers, army grievances of, 445.
  • Soldiers, at Camp Floyd, 444.
  • Soldiers, discharged, on the road home, 154.
  • Soldiers, disliked in the United States, 336.
  • Soldiers manners and customs of the, of former times, 444-5.
  • Soldiers, United States, dress of, 446.
  • Songs of the Sioux Indians, 122.
  • South-Pass City, in the Rocky Mountains, 161.
  • South-Pass of the Rocky Mountains, 161.
  • South-Pass its extent and height above sea level, 162.
  • South Pass the fountain-head of some of the great rivers of America, 161.
  • Spencer, Elder Orson, his works on Mormonism, 212, note.
  • Spring Valley, 466.
  • Spur, the prairie, 27.
  • Squatter life in Kansas, a specimen of, 19.
  • Squatter life, difficulties and dangers of, 101.
  • Squaws, Indian, 59.
  • Squaws, Indian, dirty cookery of the, 80.
  • Squaws, of the Sioux Indians, 103.
  • Squirrel, the chipmonk or chipmuk, 159, note.
  • Squirrel, the ground, 159.
  • Squirrel, the spotted prairie, 159, note.
  • Staines, Mr. W. C., the Mormon, 269.
  • Stalking the antelope on the prairies, 67.
  • Stambaugh, Colonel, 233.
  • Stampede, the great dread of the prairie traveler, 76.
  • Stansbury, Captain, his scruples as to the observance of Sunday on the march, 149.
  • Stansbury, Captain, his work on Mormonism, 203, note.
  • Stansbury Island, 327.
  • Stenhouse, Elder T. B. H., and his wife, 223.
  • Stirrup, the prairie, 26.
  • Store, a, in the Valley of the Platte, 53.
  • Storm, prairie, at Walnut Creek, 21.
  • Storm of dust in the Valley of the Platte, 75.
  • Stone Lake, Big, Indian tribes at, 96.
  • Stone used for the Mormon temple, 195.
  • Strawberries, wild, 161.
  • Strawberry Creek, 161.
  • Streets of Great Salt Lake City, 216, 217.
  • Sturgis, Captain, his chastisement of the Indians, 43.
  • Suckers, the fish so called, 152.
  • Sugar House in Great Salt Lake City, 271.
  • Sulphur Creek, 181.
  • Sulphurous pools in Great Salt Lake Valley, 274.
  • Sumach, the, 31.
  • Summer, the Indian, 79, 483.
  • Sumner, Brigadier General, his chastisement of the Indians, 43.
  • Sunflower, the, in the Valley of the Little Blue River, 31.
  • Sunflower, value of its seeds, 31.
  • Superstition of the Indian, 107, 108.
  • Sweetwater Hills, or Green-River Mountains, the, 153.
  • Sweetwater River, influents of the, 161.
  • Sweetwater River, its beauty, 153, 154.
  • Sweetwater River, its water, 150.
  • Sweetwater River, M‘Achran’s Branch of, 161.
  • Sweetwater River, or Pina Pa, 150, 158.
  • Syracuse, in Kansas, 18.
  • Tabernacle, the, of Great Salt Lake City, 219, 220.
  • Table Mountain, 162.
  • Tangle-leg, a new intoxicating liquor, 24, note.
  • Tannery of Mr. Little at Great Salt Lake City, 344.
  • Tar Springs, 182.
  • Taxes of Great Salt Lake City, 315.
  • Taylor, John, the Mormon apostle, 270.
  • Teachers and deacons in the Mormon hierarchy, 403.
  • Teeth of the Indian, 106.
  • Temperature at Fort Laramie, 90.
  • Temperature at the Foot of Ridge Station, 159.
  • Temperature of St. Louis, 159.
  • Temperature on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 168.
  • Temple Block in Great Salt Lake City, 217.
  • Temple description of the, 515.
  • Tent, Major Sibley’s, 87.
  • Tents of the Prairie Indians, 85, 86.
  • Tetrao pratensis, 142.
  • Tetrao urophasianus, 142.
  • Thermal Springs near Great Salt Lake City, 236.
  • Thermal Springs near Great Salt Lake City, analysis of the waters of, 236, note.
  • Thirty-two-mile Creek, 38.
  • Thirty-two-mile Creek, the station at, 38.
  • Three Lakes, 161.
  • “Thunder, Little,” chief of the Brûlé Sioux, defeated and deposed, 89.
  • “Thunder, Little,” description of, 132.
  • “Thunder, Little,” visit from, 132.
  • Thunder-storms in Utah, 276.
  • Timber of Grasshopper Creek, 21.
  • Timber of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
  • Timber of La Grande Platte River, 40, 41, 53.
  • Timber of Locknan’s Station, 21.
  • Timber of the Black Hills, 134.
  • Timber of the Mississippi, 15.
  • Timber progressive decay of prairie, 69.
  • Timber the Western man’s instinctive dislike of, 170.
  • Timber, want of, in Utah Territory, 284.
  • Time, the Indian’s notion of, 118.
  • Timpanogos Kanyon, visit to, 446.
  • Timpanogos or Provo River, 333.
  • Timpanogos Water, 182.
  • Tithes paid by the Mormons, 249.
  • Tithing House in Great Salt Lake City, 249.
  • Titonwan Indians, habitat and present condition of the, 97.
  • Titonwan Indians, sub-tribes of the, 98.
  • Tobacco, the traveler’s outfit of, 10.
  • Tobacco, use of, among the American Indians, 110.
  • Toilet of the prairie traveler, 10.
  • Tolerance of the Mormons, 351.
  • Tongues, gift of, 268.
  • Tonkowas, tents of the, 85.
  • Tophet, 454.
  • Totem, the, of the Indian, 108.
  • Towakamies, tents of the, 85.
  • Townsend, Mr., the Mormon hotel-keeper, 202.
  • Traders, licensed and unlicensed, 81.
  • Trafalgar Square, barbarous incongruity of, 185.
  • Trapper, the, of sixty years ago, 83.
  • Travel, proprieties of, 149.
  • Travelers, mismanagement of inexperienced, 229.
  • Traveling, slow rate of, of the mail-coaches from Missouri to California and Oregon, 5.
  • Traverse, Lake, Indians at, 96.
  • Traverse Mountain, 332.
  • Trona formation of Alkali Lake, 153.
  • Trona formation of Saleratus Lake, 147, note.
  • Troy, in Kansas, 18.
  • Turkey Creek, or Rock, 30.
  • Turkey Creek, the “ranch” at, 30.
  • Turnip, the prairie, 182, note.
  • “Twelve, the,” in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
  • “Twin Peaks” of the Wasach Mountains, 195.
  • Twiss, Major, 138.
  • Uinta Hills, 176, 178.
  • Uncle John’s Grocery, 27.
  • Uncle John’s Grocery, Indians at, 27.
  • United States, eastern and western divisions of the, 6.
  • United States, extent of the, 6.
  • United States, military departments into which they are divided, 42, 43, note.
  • United States, “Prairie land” of the, 6.
  • United States, present policy of the, toward the Indian, 101.
  • United States, proposal for establishing a camel corps in the, 46.
  • United States, remarks on the army system of outposts in the, 43, 44.
  • Utah Indians, lodges of the, 86.
  • Utah Lake, or Sweetwater Reservoir, 274, 332, 444, 446.
  • Utah Territory, bad effects of conflicting judiciaries in, 312.
  • Utah Territory, boundaries of, 273.
  • Utah Territory, cities and counties of, 291-3.
  • Utah Territory, climate of, 275.
  • Utah Territory, configuration of the country, 273.
  • Utah Territory, diseases in, 278.
  • Utah Territory, geography of, 273.
  • Utah Territory, geology of, 281.
  • Utah Territory, grazing in, 284.
  • Utah Territory, Indians of, 473.
  • Utah Territory, lakes of, 274.
  • Utah Territory, Legislative Assembly of, 310.
  • Utah Territory, minerals of, 281.
  • Utah Territory, Mormon government in, 301.
  • Utah Territory, origin of the name, 272.
  • Utah Territory, population of, 294.
  • Utah Territory, present state of agriculture in, 285.
  • Utah Territory, principal value of, 287.
  • Utah Territory, proposed route to, 3.
  • Utah Territory, rights of the citizens of, 311.
  • Utah Territory, scourges of crickets and grasshoppers in, 284.
  • Utah Territory, singular formation of the mountains of, 275.
  • Utah Territory, soil of, 283.
  • Utah Territory, springs of, 274.
  • Utah Territory, the Great Desert of, 455.
  • Utah Territory, the Indian bureau of, 476.
  • Utah Territory, the past of Mormonland, 288.
  • Utah Territory, United States officials in, 309-10.
  • Utah Territory, want of timber in, 284-5.
  • Utah Territory, wild animals of, 279.
  • Valley Home, in Kansas, 19.
  • “Valley Tan,” origin of the name, 170, and note.
  • Vegetables grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
  • Vegetation at Black Fork, 176, 177-8.
  • Vegetation at Quaking-Asp Hill, 181.
  • Vegetation of Big Kanyon, 192, 193.
  • Vegetation of Big Mountain, 190.
  • Vegetation of Big Sandy Creek, 167, 169.
  • Vegetation of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
  • Vegetation of Kansas, 17.
  • Vegetation of Little Blue River, 31.
  • Vegetation of the banks of La Grande Platte River, 41, 48, 52, 53.
  • Vegetation of the valleys of the Black Hills, 134.
  • Vegetation of the Wind-River Mountains, 163.
  • Veranda, a model, 53.
  • Vermilion Creek, 27.
  • Viburnum dentatum, 119.
  • Villages, Indian, 86.
  • Violin, Mormon fondness for the, 177.
  • Waddington, Mr., the Mormon, 463.
  • Wágáhongopá, or Glistening Gravel Water, 167.
  • Wagon trains of the Great American Sahara, 22.
  • Wagons, various uses of the, of the prairies, 71.
  • Wagons, price of the, called ambulances, 73 note.
  • Wahpekute Indians, habitat of the, 96.
  • Wahpetonwan Indians, habitat of the, 96.
  • Wakoes, tents of the, 85.
  • Walker’s Lake, 274.
  • Wallace, Mr., at the Bowery, 260.
  • Walls, the great, of Great Salt Lake City, 197.
  • Walnut Creek, 21.
  • Walnut Creek, prairie storm at, 21.
  • War-parties among the Indians, 143.
  • War-party, return home of a, 144.
  • Ward, Mrs. Maria, her work on Mormonism, 206, note.
  • Ward, W.,the Mormon sculptor and apostate, 246.
  • Wards into which Great Salt Lake City is divided, 217.
  • Ward’s Station, or the “Central Star,” 91.
  • Warm Springs, 158.
  • Warm Springs, barren country beyond, 158.
  • Warren, Lieutenant Gouverneur K., report of, on Nebraska quoted, 7.
  • Warriors, Indian, 57.
  • Wasach Mountains, 189, 195.
  • Wasach Mountains, eternal snow of the, 323.
  • Washiki, the Shoshonee chief, 165.
  • Washington County, Utah Territory, description of, 292, note.
  • Water communication, idea of, between the Missouri and the Columbia Rivers, 162, 163, note.
  • Water, none in the First Desert, 167.
  • Water, scarcity of, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 166.
  • Water, supply of, in Great Salt Lake City, 216.
  • Wazikute Indians, 97.
  • Weapons necessary to the Western traveler, 9.
  • Weapons of the North American Indians, 57, 119, 120.
  • Weber River, 182.
  • Weber River, head and course of the, 188, 325.
  • Weber River, rain-storms and cold winds of, 188.
  • Weber River, Station, 188.
  • Weber River, tributaries of the, 189.
  • Weber River, valley of the, 188.
  • Weed-prairie, the, 48.
  • Wells, General, the Mormon president, account of, 241, 354.
  • Western man’s home, description of a, 468-9.
  • Whisky a favorite with the wagon drivers, 24.
  • Whisky “Valley Tan,” 170.
  • White-Earth River, or Mankizitah, 72.
  • White Knife Indians, 481-2.
  • White Mountains, 450.
  • “White Savages” of the West, 173, and note.
  • Wichiyela, or First-Nation Indians, 97.
  • Wigwams, huts, or cabins of the Eastern American Indians, 86, note.
  • Wilderness, the American, 63.
  • Wilderness, the American, animal life in, 64.
  • Willow Creek, 161.
  • Willow Creek, a little war at, 461.
  • Willow Creek, Canadian settlers at, 161.
  • Willow Creek, station at, 461.
  • Willow Island Ranch, 49.
  • Willow Springs Station, 147.
  • Willow, the red, the bark of, smoked, 111.
  • Wind, alternate hot and cold puffs of, in the prairies, 79.
  • Wind River, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Wind River, Mountains, 162, 163, 164.
  • Wind River, Mountains, evening view of the, 164.
  • Wind River, Mountains, game in the, 68.
  • Wind River, Mountains, gold found in the, 165.
  • Wind River, Mountains, morning in the, 166.
  • Wind River, Mountains, wild animals of the wooded heights, 165.
  • Winds, cold, of Weber-River Station, 188.
  • Wind-storms of the South Pass, 165.
  • Wind, west, almost invariable at the South Pass, 163.
  • Winnebagoes, Winnipegs, or Ochangras, Indian tribe of the, 20, note.
  • Winnebagoes, their tents, 86.
  • Winnipeg Lake, Indians on, 100.
  • Witchetaws, tents of the, 85.
  • Wright, Mose, 472-3, 481-2.
  • Wolves at Rocky Bridge Station, 160, 161.
  • Wolves, near Black’s Fork, 176.
  • Wolves, the prairie, 30.
  • Women, excess of the female over the male population in Utah Territory, 301.
  • Women, house of the wives of the Prophet in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
  • Women, Indian, 59, 106.
  • Women, Indian names of, 115.
  • Women, marriage among the North American Indians, 116.
  • Women, Mormon marriage, 427, 432.
  • Women, Mormon, their polygamy, 431.
  • Women, motherhood, how regarded in the Western States, 432.
  • Women of the Mormons, 228, 430.
  • Women of the Sioux Indians, 103.
  • Women, the half-breed, 80.
  • Women, their separation from the men at meals, 117.
  • Woodruff, Willford, the Mormon apostle, 242.
  • Woodruff, Willford, his garden, 360.
  • Woods, Lake of the, Indians of the, 100.
  • Woodson, Colonel S. H., his establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4.
  • Wool-producing country in the basin of the Green River, 284.
  • Yellow Creek, 183.
  • Yellow Creek, Hill, 184.
  • Yellow Stone River, fountain-head of the, 162.
  • Yoke, the, of the great American Sahara, 23.
  • Yosemite, or Yohamite Falls, 500.
  • Young, Brigham, President, extract from one of his sermons, 17, note.
  • Young, Brigham, address of, at the Conference, 305-6.
  • Young, Brigham, address of, in the Bowery, 261.
  • Young, Brigham, alleged personal fear of, 226.
  • Young, Brigham, character of, 239-245.
  • Young, Brigham, gardens of, 269.
  • Young, Brigham, his opinion of woman’s counsel, 207, note.
  • Young, Brigham, house of, 234.
  • Young, Brigham, mode of life of, 240, 242.
  • Young, Brigham, nephew of the Prophet, 137.
  • Young, Brigham, personal appearance of, 238-9.
  • Young, Brigham, remarks of, on the “Indian Wars,” 243.
  • Young, Brigham, visit to, 237-8.
  • Young, Brigham, wealth of, 242.
  • Young, Brigham, wives and children of, 249.
  • Yuta Indians, “they who live on mountains,” sign of their tribe, 124, 477.
  • Yuta Indians, a little war with the, 461.
  • Yuta Indians, kindness of the Mormons to the, 245.
  • Yuta Indians, graves of the, 122.
  • Zizania aquatica, 96, note.