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.