# The City of the Saints/Index

INDEX.
* Aborigines, American. See Indians.
* Absinthe. See Sage, wild.
* Academy of the 7th Ward of Great Salt Lake City, 360.
* Adobe manufactory near Great Salt Lake City, 344–5.
* Adobe of the Western World, 197.
* Adobe" origin of the name, 197, note.
* Adoption among the North American Indians, 117.
* Adoption" Mormon principle of, 269.
* Adultery, Mormon punishment for, 426.
* Agricultural Society of Deserét, 316.
* Agriculture, list of premiums awarded at the annual show, 285–287, note.
* Agriculture, present state of, in Great Salt Lake Valley, 285.
* Alamo. See Cotton-wood-tree.
* Albino, rarity of an, among the Indians, 104.
* Albinos among buffaloes, 51.
* Alcohol distilled in Great Salt Lake City, 320.
* Alexander, Colonel B., his hospitality, 90.
* Algæ in Great Salt Lake, 326.
* Algarobia grandulosa, or mezquite-tree, 7.
* Alkali Lake, 153.
* Alkali" Lake," Station on the Platte River, 54.
* Almanac, the, published in Utah, 253.
* America, shape of the continent of, 6.
* American Fork, 447.
* "Americanisms, Dictionary of," Bartlett's, quoted 17, note.
* Animal life, absence of, on the Grand Prairie, 18.
* Animal" life," in the American Sahara, 64.
* Animal" worship of the American Indians, 103.
* Animals and vegetables, confusing trivial names for, in America, 142, note.
* Animals, Indian signs for, 126.
* Animals," of the Uinta Hills, 178.
* Animals," small quantity of food required to fatten, in the Rocky Mountains and in Somali-land, 140.
* Animals, wild, at Rocky Bridge, 159.
* Animals," wild" in the wooded heights of the Wind-River Mountains, 165.
* Animals, wild, of the Black Hills, 142.
* Animals," wild," of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153.
* Animals," wild," of Utah Territory, 279.
* Antelope at Rocky Ridge, 159.
* Antelope" its habitat, 67.
* Antelope" its meat, 67.
* Antelope" or Church Island, 194, 323, 327.
* Antelope" Springs, 464, 465.
* Antelope" the (Antelocapra Americana), 67.
* Ant-hills, 196.
* Apadomey female warriors, 113.
* Arapaho, or Dirty-Nose Indians, 142, 143.
* Arapaho," loose conduct of, 117.
* Arapaho," sign of the tribe of, 123, 124.
* Arapaho," their lodges, 86.
* Arapaho," their personal appearance, 143, 144.
* Arapaho," visit of some, from a neighboring camp, 142.
* Archery, Sioux skill in, 120.
* Arickaree, or Ree Indians, 37.
* Arms of the North American Indians, 57, 119.
* Arms" ignorance of the lower grades of English of the use of, 174.
* Army of the United States, remarks on the, 336.
* Army" grievances of the, 445.
* Arroyo, fiumara or nullah, an, 70.
* Arrow-poison of the Indians, 482.
* Arrows of the North American Indian, 119, 120.
* Arrow-wood (Viburnum dentatum), 119.
* Art in America, remarks on, 186, 187.
* Artemisia. See Sage, wild.
* Asclepias tuberosa, common in Utah Territory, 167.
* Ash Hollow, 70.
* Ash" Hollow" General Harney's defeat of the Brûlé Sioux at, 70, 89.
* Ash-Hollow Creek, 70.
* Assiniboin Indians, 97.
* Assiniboin" Indians," their present habitat, 100.
* Assiniboin" River, 100.
* Aurora borealis, a splendid, in the prairies, 61.
* Avena fatua of the Pacific Water-shed, 139.
* Badeau's Ranch, or Laramie City, 83.
* Badgers at Rocky-Bridge Station, 161.
* Bartlett's "Dictionary of Americanisms" quoted, 17, note.
* Basswood, 17.
* "Basswood Mormons," 17, note.
* Bath, the hot air and water, of the North American Indian, 119.
* Bathing and its dangers, 156.
* Battle Creek, 447.
* Bauchmin's Creek, 189, 190.
* Bauchmin's" Creek," valley of, 189.
* Bauchmin's" Fork, 189.
* Bauchmin's" station at, 189.
* "Bear's Rib," Mato Chigukesa, made chief of the Brûlé Sioux, 89.
* Bear Bay, 182.
* Bear" flesh of the, as food, 231.
* Bear" in Cotton-wood Kanyon, 347.
* Bear" of the Black Hills, 142.
* Bear" River, 182, 183, 325.
* Bear" River," coal found on the banks of, 182.
* Bear" River," Mountains, 174.
* Bear" Springs, in Utah Territory, 274.
* Bear" the grizzly, 192.
* Bear" traps, 347.
* Beavers in the torrent-bed of Echo Kanyon, 187.
* Beavers" tails of, as food, 231.
* Bedstead, populousness of, 202.
* Bee, a, on the topmost summit of the Rocky Mountains, 165.
* Bee House in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
* Beer, or Soda Springs, 179.
* Beer" of Great Salt Lake City, 320.
* Beet-root grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
* Bell, Governor, of Great Salt Lake City, 215.
* Bench-land of the Great Salt Lake Valley, 195.
* Bennett, J.C., his work on the Mormons, 205, note.
* Big Field, near Great Salt Lake City, 198.
* Bighorn, or American moufflon, 153, 155.
* Big Kanyon, 192.
* Big Mountain, 190.
* Big" Mountain," pass of the, 190, 191.
* Bill of fare at a supper in Great Salt Lake City, 232.
* Birds near Fort Kearney, 48.
* Birds" of Utah Territory, 280.
* Birds" wild, of the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, 165.
* Bishops, the Mormon, 400.
* Bison Americanus. See Buffalo. ​
* Bissonette, M., the Creole, 139.
* Blackfeet, or Sisahapa Indians, 98.
* Blackfeet," sign of the tribe of, 124.
* Blackfeet," their friendliness to whites, 165.
* Blackfeet," their lodges, 86.
* Black Hills, the, 91.
* Black" Hills," the, animals to which they afford shelter, 142.
* Black Hills, geography of the, 134.
* Black Rock, near Great Salt Lake, 324,
* Black" Rock," view from the, 330.
* Black's Fork River, 174, 176.
* Black's" Fork" vegetation of, 177, 178.
* Bloomer dress, 91, 92.
* Blue River, Big, 29.
* Blue" River," Little, 38.
* Blue" River," Little," fish of the, 38.
* Blue-Earth River, Indians west of, 96.
* Bluffs on the prairies, 29.
* Bogus, origin of the term, 417, note.
* Bonhomme Island, sand-banks at, 15.
* "Book of Mormon," the. See "Mormon, Book of."
* Books necessary to the Western traveler, 10.
* Books" on Mormonism, list of, 203, note.
* Botany of Utah Territory, 280.
* Boulders, huge natural pile of, Brigham's Peak, 136.
* Boulders," in Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
* Bow and arrow of the North American Indian, 119.
* Bowery, the, in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
* Bowery," visit to the, 258.
* Box-Elder Creek, 136.
* Boys, Indian, 59.
* "Brass, City of," of the Arabs, 78.
* Braves, Indian, 57.
* Bread made in the prairies, 84.
* Bread-root of the Western hunters, 182, note.
* Breakfast in the prairies, 84.
* Brewery, Utah, 332,
* Brick-making at Great Salt Lake City, 344, 345.
* Bridger, Colonel James, the celebrated trapper, 178.
* Bridger," Fort, 178.
* Bridger," Range of the Uinta Hills, 176.
* Bridle and bit used on the prairies, 27.
* Brigham's Kanyon, 194, 235.
* Brigham's" Peak, 136.
* Brigham's" Peak," the driver's story of, 136.
* "British-English" Mormons on the road to Great Salt Lake City, 137.
* Brûlé Sioux Indians, their habitat, 98. See Sioux.
* Brutisch, Giovanni, the Venetian, 485.
* Bugs, bed, 160, note.
* Bugs," other, 160, note.
* Buffalo, absence of the, on the Grand Prairie, 18.
* Buffalo," annual destruction of, 50.
* Buffalo," berry, the, cultivated in Great Salt Lake City, 170, note.
* Buffalo, Britishers and buffalo shooting, 73.
* Buffalo," extinct westward of the Rocky Mountains, 50.
* Buffalo, former and present number of, 50.
* Buffalo," grass, 51.
* Buffalo," herds of, 48.
* Buffalo," Indian mode of hunting it, 51, 52.
* Buffalo," Indian mode of preparing the skins of, 52.
* Buffalo," its habits, 51.
* Buffalo," number of robes purchased by the several companies, 49, note.
* Buffalo, three great families of, 50.
* Buffalo," uses to which it is put, 51, 52.
* Buffalo," wild, as compared with tame meat, 49.
* Bullock, W.T., the Mormon, 419.
* Bunch-grass, 139.
* Bunch-grass," its geographical limits, 139.
* Bunch-grass," proposed acclimatization of, 140.
* Bundling among the North American Indians, 116.
* Bundling" antiquity of the practice, 116, note.
* "Bunk," the, at Lodge-Pole Station, 66.
* Burnt-Thigh Indians, their habitat, 98.
* Butte Station, 468.
* Buttes, Red, trading-post of, 146.
* Buttes," meaning of the word, 146, note.
* Butterfield, or American Express, route of the, 3.
* Butterfield, or American Express, its receipts from government, 4
* Cache Cave, 134.
* Cache" Valley, 335.
* Cacti of the American wilderness, 64.
* Cactus, intoxicating, 64, note.
* Calidarium, the Indian, 119.
* California, establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to, 4.
* California, roads from Great Salt Lake City to, 452.
* California," slope and surface of the land of, 8.
* California," time for setting out for, 138.
* Calumet, the, regarded as a sacred instrument, 112.
* Camel corps, proposal for establishing a, for American outpost duty, 46.
* Camp Floyd, description of, 334,
* Camp" Floyd," hatred of the Mormons expressed at, 339.
* Camp Floyd, position of the camp, 446.
* Camp" Floyd," second visit to, 444
* Camp" Floyd," the sick certificate, 342.
* Camp" Floyd," trip to, 331.
* Camp" Scott, near Fort Bridger, 179.
* Canadians, French, settled in the Far West, 152.
* Canis latrans, the, 64.
* Cannibals, how far the North American Indians are, 117.
* Cannon River, Indians west of, 96.
* Card-playing among the North American Indians, 117.
* Carrington, Albert O., the Mormon, 242.
* Carrington," Island, 327.
* Carson City, 494, 496.
* Carson" City," lawless violence of, 288.
* Carson" House Station, 189.
* Carson" Kit, the celebrated guide and Indian interpreter, 178.
* Carson Lake, 274, 491.
* Carson" River, 493.
* Carter, Judge, and his store, 179.
* Caswall, Rev. Henry, his works on Mormonism, 205, note.
* Cattle starved in some regions, 138.
* Cattle" numbers of skeletons seen, 138,
* Cedar Creek, 334.
* Cedar" effect of climate upon the growth of the, 41.
* Cedar" gradually diminishing, 53.
* Cedar" Island, the first, in the Missouri, 41.
* Cedar" the name, as used in the United States, 70, note.
* Ceremony and manners, Indian want of, 118.
* Chamizo, or greasewood, 158.
* Chandless, William, his work on Mormonism, 204, note.
* Cherokees, their present condition, 35.
* Cherokees," their lodges, 86.
* Cheyenne Indians, the, 99.
* Cheyenne" Indians," sign of their tribe, 124.
* Cheyenne" Indians," their chastity, 117.
* Cheyenne" Indians," their lodges, 86.
* Chieftainship among the Indians, 117.
* Children, Indian fondness for, 103.
* Children," Indian, 59.
* Children," of the Mormons, 422–3.
* Children," of the Prophet, 249.
* Chimney Rock, the, 74.
* China-town, Carson River, 496.
* Chinche, or bug, the, 160, note.
* "Chip" fires in the prairies, 43.
* Chipmonk, or Chipmuk, the, 159, note.
* Chippewas. See Ojibwa Indians.
* Choctaw Indians, their lodges, 86.
* Chokop's Pass, 480.
* Chronology of the most important events recorded in the Book of Mormon, 411.
* Chugwater, the, 90.
* Church Butte, geological formation of, 176.
* Churchill, Fort, 493.
* Cities, formation of, in Utah Territory, 291.
* City-Creek Kanyon, 195. ​
* Climate of Platte Bridge, 137.
* Climate" of the country near Fort Bridger, 179, 180.
* Climate" of Utah Territory, 275.
* Clothing necessary to the Prairie traveler, 10.
* Coaches, mail, from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4
* Coaches, materials of which they are made, 12.
* Coaches," slow rate of traveling, 5.
* Coaches," the "Concord coach," 12.
* Coal found on the banks of the Bear and Weber Rivers, and at Silver Creek, 182.
* Coal in Nebraska, 141.
* Coal" in Utah Territory, 281.
* Coal" near Sulphur Creek, 182.
* Coal" on the banks of the Platte River, 141.
* Cold Springs, in Kansas, 18
* Cold" Springs," squatter life at, 19.
* Cold" Springs," Station, 487.
* Cold-Water Ranch, 49.
* Colorado, Rio, fountain-head of the, 162.
* Columbia River, fountain-head of the, 162.
* Comanche Indians, the, 60, note.
* Comanche" Indians," their lodges, 86.
* Compass, the prairie, 48.
* "Concord coach," description of the, 12.
* Conference, description of a Mormon, 302–9.
* Constitution of the State of Deserét, 289, note.
* Cookery, dirty, of Indian squaws, 80.
* Cookery," bill, in the prairies, 84.
* Coon's Kanyon, 194.
* Copperas Springs, 181.
* Corporation of Great Salt Lake City, 315.
* Corrals, mode of forming, 76.
* Corrill, John, his work on Mormonism, 205, note.
* Cotton grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
* Cotton-weed, the, 64.
* Cotton-wood Creek, 30.
* Cotton-wood" Kanyon, Great, 343.
* Cotton-wood" Kanyon," Great," celebration of Mormon Independence Day at, 340, note.
* Cotton-wood Kanyon, Great, timber of, 284, 285.
* Cotton-wood" Kanyon," Great," visit to, 346.
* Cotton-wood" Lake, Great, 347.
* Cotton-wood" Station, in Nebraska, 30, 49.
* Cotton-wood" tree, the, or Alamo, 32.
* Cotton-wood" tree," its uses, 32.
* Cougar, the, or mountain lion, 153, and note.
* Council Bluffs, the natural crossing of the Missouri, 71, note.
* Council Hall of the Seventies in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
* Council, the High, of the Mormons, 401.
* Counties, list of, of Utah Territory, 291–3.
* Coureurs des bois, or unlicensed peddlers, 81.
* Court-house Ridge, the, 72.
* Court-house" Ridge," description of it, 72.
* Court-house" in Great Salt Lake City, 417.
* Court-house" interesting case tried in the, 417.
* Cox, Daniel, his idea of a water communication between the Missouri and the Columbia Rivers, 162, 163, note.
* Coyotes, or jackals of the Western World, 64.
* Coyotes," at Rocky-Bridge Station, 160, 161.
* Coyotes," in Echo Kanyon, 188
* Coyotes," near Black's Fork, 176.
* Cree Indians, their habitat, 100,
* Creek, Ash-Hollow, 70.
* Creek," Battle, 447.
* Creek," Bauchmin's, 189, 190,
* Creek," Box-Elder, 136,
* Creek," Cedar, 334.
* Creek," Cotton-wood, 30.
* Creek," Deer, 138.
* Creek," Dry, 483.
* Creek," Egan's, 183.
* Creek," Grasshopper, 21.
* Creek," Horse, 79.
* Creek," Horseshoe, 163.
* Creek," Kanyon, Big, 191.
* Creek," Kanyon," East, 189.
* Creek," Kiowa, Little, 79.
* Creek," La Bonté, 135.
* Creek," Meadow, 451.
* Creek," Mill, 195.
* Creek," Muddy, Little, 140.
* Creek," Nemehaw, Big, 21.
* Creek," Omaha, or Little Punkin, 71.
* Creek," Pacific, 166.
* Creek," Plum, 48.
* Creek," Quaking Asp, 161.
* Creek," Sandy, 71.
* Creek," Sandy," Big, 167.
* Creek," Sandy," Little, 167.
* Creek," Sheawit, 482.
* Creek," Shell, 465, 466.
* Creek," Silver, 182.
* Creek," Smith's, 486.
* Creek," Snow, 140.
* Creek," Strawberry, 161.
* Creek," Sulphur, 181.
* Creek," Thirty-two-mile, 38,
* Creek," Turkey, 30.
* Creek," Vermilion, 27.
* Creek," Walnut, 21.
* Creek," Willow, 161, 461.
* Creek," Yellow, 183.
* Creeks, or "criks" in America, 21.
* Crickets (Anabrus simplex?), scourge of, in Utah Territory, 284.
* Crops in Great Salt Lake Valley, 201.
* Crosby, Judge, 450.
* Cumming, Hon. A., governor of Great Salt Lake City, 215.
* Cumming, Hon. A., his impartial discharge of his duties, 216.
* Curriculum of the Prairie Indians, 107.
* Cursing and swearing in America, 14,
* Cynomys Ludovicianus, or prairie-dog, 66.
* Davies, Elder John, his Mormon works, 214, note.
* Dakotahs. See Sioux.
* Dakotah" meaning of the name, 95.
* Dana, Lieutenant, compagnon de voyage, 8.
* Dancing, Mormon fondness for, 230.
* Danite band, account of the, 59.
* Dark Valley, 60.
* Davis, Hon. Jefferson, his estimate of the cost of a railway from the Mississippi to the Pacific, 3, note.
* Dayton, Lysander, the Mormon Bishop, and his wives, 448.
* Dead, Indian mode of burial of the, 122.
* Deep-Creek Kanyon, 462.
* Deep" Creek" Station, 463.
* Deep" Creek" Valley, 463.
* Deer Creek, 138.
* Deer" Creek," establishment at, 139.
* Deer" kinds of, found in the regions east of the Rocky Mountains, 63.
* Delaware Indians, account of the, 37.
* Delaware" Indians," their lodges, 86.
* Denmark Ward in Great Salt Lake City, 198.
* Denver City, lawless violence of, 288,
* Deserét, agricultural society of, 285.
* Deserét," alphabet, the, 420.
* Deserét," Store, in Great Salt Lake City, 249.
* Deserét," the land of the honey-bee, 16),
* "Deserét News," account of the, 255.
* Desert, fertility of its eastern and western frontiers, 7.
* Desert," from Fort Kearney to the base of the Rocky Mountains, 6.
* Desert mostly uninhabited, T.
* Desert" the First, 167.
* Desert" the Great, of Utah Territory, 455, 458.
* Des Moines River, Indians west of the, 96.
* Devil's Backbone, the, 147.
* Devil's" darning-needle, or dragon fiy, 60.
* Devil's" Gate, the celebrated kanyon of the, 151.
* Devil's" Hole, the, 458, 459.
* Devil's" Lake, Indians of, 97.
* Devil's" Post-office, the, 154,
* Diamond Springs, 60, 480.
* Diamond" Springs," tragedy at, 60.
* Diseases of Utah Territory, 278. ​
* Diseases to which the Indians are liable, 278.
* "Divide," the, between the Green River and Black's Fork, 174.
* "Divide," the, between the Little Blue and Platte Rivers, 38.
* "Divide," the, between the Platte and Sweet-water Rivers, its sterility, 146.
* Divorce among the Mormons, 427.
* Dogs, Indian, 58, 472.
* Dog-Teutons in the prairies, 62.
* Dolphin Island, 327.
* Doxology, Mormon remarks on the fourteen articles of, 387, et seq.
* Dragon-fly, or devil's darning-needle, 60.
* Dress, Indian, 57, 59.
* Dress" of the Mormon fair sex, 227.
* Drivers of mail-coaches, their immorality, 5.
* Drivers" or "rippers," the, of the wagon-train, 23.
* Drought, trials of, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 167.
* Dry Creek, 483.
* Dubail, Constant, the woodman, 466.
* Dug-out, Joe, and his station, 334, 444.
* Dust-storms in the Valley of the Platte, 75.
* Dust-storms" of Utah, 276, 450, 451.
* Dust-storms" on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 168.
* East Kanyon Creek, 189.
* Eau qui court, or Niobrara River, 40, 72.
* Echo Kanyon, 184.
* Echo" Kanyon," beavers in the torrent-bed of, 187.
* Echo" Kanyon," Station, 187.
* Echo" Kanyon," the Mormons' breastworks in, 187.
* Echo" Kanyon," vegetation of, 187.
* Education in Deserét and England compared, 545.
* Education" in Great Salt Lake City, 422, 423, 425.
* Egan, Major Howard, 453.
* Egan's Creek, 183.
* Egan's" Springs, 454, 455.
* Egan's" Station, 467.
* Eggs and bacon, a constant dish in the West, 38.
* Eight-mile-Spring Kanyon, 465.
* Eight-mile" Springs, 465.
* Elder, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 402.
* Elk, the (Cervus Canadensis), habitat of, 68.
* Emigrants, diseases to which they are liable, 279.
* Emigrants," Mormon, arrival of, at Great Salt Lake City, 225–6.
* "Emigration Road" in Kansas, 16,
* Emigration Kanyon, 193.
* Emigration" Mormon system of, 295.
* Emigration" statistics of, 297.
* Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
* Endowment" House" mysteries of the, 220.
* Ensign Peak, spirit of Joseph Smith on, 196.
* Evening in the prairies, 38.
* Explorers, list of the principal, of the United States, who have published works on the subject, 171, 172, note.
* Eye of the Indian, 105.
* "Eye-opener," an, 52.
* Faces, Indian, 105, 106.
* Faith, articles of the Mormon, 387, et seq.
* Farms, Indian, 477.
* Farriery of the Indians, 119.
* Febrile affections in Great Salt Lake City, 279.
* Feet of the Indians, 104.
* Fences, "snake," of the West, 188.
* Feramorz, Colonel, 348.
* Ferris, B.J. on his work on Mormonism, 206, note.
* Ferris," Mrs., her work on "The Mormons at Home," 206, 207, note.
* Ferry, the Lower, over the Platte, 140.
* Fête at Great Salt Lake City, account of a, 230–2.
* Fetichism of the North American Indians, 107.
* "Fever, the Prairie," 22.
* Fingers considered as a trophy by the Indians, 142, note.
* Fireflies, or lightning-bugs, 60.
* Fires, prairie, 29.
* Fires, prairie, mode of stopping, 29.
* Fir-trees of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
* Fish of the streams flowing from the Black Hills, 134.
* Fish of the Sweetwater, 152.
* Fish" of the Wasach Lakes, 348.
* Fish" of Utah Lake, 334.
* Fish" Springs, 460,
* Fish" water of Great Salt Lake fatal to, 326.
* Fiumara. See Arroyo,
* Floods of the Missouri, 16.
* Flowers on the banks of La Grande Platte River, 41, 48, 53.
* Folles Avoines Indians, 96, note.
* Food prejudices, 65.
* Foot of Ridge Station, near the Sweetwater, 159.
* Fort Bridger, 178.
* Fort" Churchill, 493, 494.
* Forts, frontier, a camel corps proposed for, 46.
* Forts," frontier," of the United States described, 41, 42.
* Forts," frontier," remarks on the army system of outposts in the United States, 43, 44.
* Fox-River Indians, their tents, 86.
* Fox-River" the, or Rivière des Puantes, 19.
* Foxes in Echo Kanyon, 187.
* Frémont, Colonel, his exploration of the Rocky Mountains, 164.
* Frémont, Colonel, his traveling proprieties, 149.
* Frémont," Island, 328.
* Frémont," Peak, in the Rocky Mountains, 155, 161.
* Frémont," Peak," its height above sea-level, 164.
* Frémont," Slough, 53.
* Frémont," Springs, station at, 53.
* Frémont," Springs," the model veranda at, 53.
* Frogtown, or Fairfield, 335.
* Fruit in the gardens of the Prophet, 269.
* Fruit" wild, of Utah Territory, 283.
* Funeral ceremonies of the Sioux Indians, 122.
* Fustigator, the mammoth, of the American wagoners, 24.
* Gambling, fondness of the North American Indian for, 117.
* Game, abundance of, in the Wind-River Mountains, 68, 165.
* Gamma, or gramma, grass of the slopes west of Fort Laramie, 7.
* Gardens of the Prophet, in Great Salt Lake City, 269.
* General Johnston's Pass, 454.
* Geological formation at Fort Laramie, 90.
* Geological" formation" of Church Butte, 176.
* Geological" formation" of Echo Kanyon, 184.
* Geological" formation" of the banks of the Platte at Snow Creek, 141.
* Geological formation of the Black Hills, 134.
* Geological" formation" of the gold diggings, 484.
* Geological" formation" of the Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, 72.
* Geological formation of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153.
* Geological" formation" of the valley of the Green River, 169.
* Geological formation of Utah Territory, 194.
* Geological" formation" westward of the fort, 91.
* Germans in the prairies, their behavior, 62.
* Gibraltar Gate, 488.
* "Gift, an Indian," the proverb, 103.
* Gilston, Jim, of Illinois, 456.
* Girls, Indian, 59.
* Gold found in the Wind-River Mountains, 165.
* Gold" found in Utah Territory, 251.
* Gold" mines near the Great Salt Lake City, 270, 271.
* Golden Pass of Emigration Kanyon, 193.
* Gospel, grotesque accounts of the manner in which the Indians of old received the, 109.
* Government of the Mormons, 301.
* Grain, quantity produced in the Valley of Great Salt Lake, 264.
* Grand Island, in the Platte River. 39.
* Grand" River, Neosho, or White Water, the Osages settled on the, 34. ​
* Granite Mountain, 454.
* Granite" Rock, 462.
* Grape, the Californian, 345.
* Grass, bunch, 7.
* Grass," salt, 148.
* Grasses of the slopes west of Fort Laramie, 7.
* Grasshopper Creek, 21.
* Grasshoppers (Œdipoda corallipes), clouds of, in the prairies, 69.
* Grasshoppers, ravages of, 69, 70.
* Grasshoppers," scourge of, in Utah Territory, 284.
* Grattan, Lieutenant, his fatal fight with the Sioux, 88.
* Graves of the Mormon emigration route, 174.
* Grazing-grounds in Utah Territory, 284.
* Grazing-grounds" of the West, their fertility and freedom from sickness, 7.
* Greasewood at Black's Fork, 176.
* Greasewood" the (Obione or Atriplex canescens), 158.
* Great Salt Lake, account of an excursion to, 322.
* Great" Salt" Lake," air on the shores of, 34
* Great" Salt" Lake," bathing-place on, 329.
* Great" Salt" Lake," buoyancy of, 329.
* Great" Salt" Lake," history and geography of, 324.
* Great" Salt" Lake," islands of, 327–8.
* Great" Salt" Lake," lands immediately about, 330.
* Great" Salt" Lake," quantity of salt in, 325.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City, Academy of the 7th Ward in, 360.
* Great Salt Lake City, admirable site of, 196.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Agricultural Society of Desert, 316.
* Great Salt Lake City, arrival of caravan of emigrants at, 225–6.
* Great Salt Lake City, cheapness of the necessaries of life at, 320.
* Great Salt Lake City, coinage of, 356.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" conduct of federal officials at, 421.
* Great Salt Lake City, corporation of, 315.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Council Hall of the Seventies at, 229.
* Great Salt Lake City, course of life in, 418–19.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Court-house of, 417.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" crops in the valley of, 201.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Denmark Ward in, 198,
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" departure from, 441–3.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" eastern wall of Great Salt Lake Valley, 195.
* Great Salt Lake City, education in, 422, 423, 425.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Endowment House at, 220.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" excursions in, 322.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" first view of, 193.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" foundation of the, 288.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" gold mines in Utah, 271.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Governor Cumming, 215.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" hand-labor, articles of, in, 320.
* Great Salt Lake City, Historian and Recorder's Office in, 419, 426.
* Great Salt Lake City, houses of, 197, 198.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" industry in, 316.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Lion House at, 246.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" list of articles of industry at, 317–20, note.
* Great Salt Lake City, militia of, 354–5.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" murders committed in and near, 339.
* Great Salt Lake City, newspapers published in, 255.
* Great Salt Lake City, no market-place in, 201.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" prices, 820–1.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" principal schools in, 425.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" promulgation of the Constitution at, 289, note.
* Great Salt Lake City, public opinion in, 197.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" roads from, to California, 450.
* Great Salt Lake City, safety of, 224.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Salt Lake House Hotel, 201.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" schools in, 345.
* Great Salt Lake City, shops in, 217.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Social Hall and fêtes at, 230.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" streets of, 216, 217.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" supply of water in, 216, 217.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Tabernacle at, 219, 220,
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" taxes of, 315.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" Temple Block at, 217-23.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Bee House at, 246.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Bowery at, 220, 258.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" the bulwarks of Zion at, 197.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Penitentiary at, 271.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" the Prophet's house at, 234, 245–6.
* Great Salt Lake City, the public and private offices of the Prophet at, 246.
* Great Salt Lake City, the public library at, 235.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" the River New Jordan, 233.
* Great" Salt" Lake," City" view of, from the Wasach Mountains, 359.
* Great Salt Lake City, visit to the Prophet at, 237–8.
* Green River, formation of the valley of the, 169.
* Green" River," fountain-head of the, 162.
* Green" River," its breadth and depth, 171.
* Green" River," its length, volume, and direction, 171.
* Green River, its tributaries, 167.
* Green" River," Macarthy's station on the, 170.
* Green" River," Mountains, the, 153.
* Green" River," salmon trout of the, 170.
* Green" River," Spanish and Indian names of the, 171.
* Green-River Station, 170, 172.
* Green" River," wool-producing country in the basin of the, 284.
* Grounds, Bad, or mauvaises terres of the United States, 6.
* Grouse, pinnated, 142.
* Guenot, Louis, his bridge over the Platte, 141.
* Guese, George, the Cherokee chief, 35.
* Guittard's Station, 27.
* Guittard's" Station," the host at, 27.
* Gunnison, Lieutenant, his work on Mormonism, 203, 204, note.
* Gunnison, Lieutenant, his resumé of Mormonism, 398.
* Gunnison, Lieutenant, murder of, 339.
* Gunnison's Island, 327.
* Hair, Indian mode of dressing the, 56.
* Half-breeds, English and French, compared, 80.
* Half-breeds," women, 80.
* Halfway House, halt at the, 53.
* Halfway" House," the store at the, 53.
* Ham's Fork, 174.
* Ham's" Fork," the wretched station at, 174, 175.
* Hand-labor, articles of, in Great Salt Lake City, 320.
* Hands of the Indians, 104.
* Hanks, the redoubtable Mr. Ephe, the Danite, 191.
* Hanks," stories of, 193.
* Hapsaroke Indians, or Les Corbeaux, 124.
* Hapsaroke" Indians," sign of the tribe, 124.
* Harney, General, his defeat of the Brûlé Sioux at Ash Hollow, 70, 89.
* Harrowgate Springs in the Wasach Mountains, 360.
* Hat Island, 327.
* Hawkins's rifles, 9.
* Hayden, Dr. F.V., his opinion on coal in Nebraska, 141.
* Heat of the sun beyond Ham's Fork, 176.
* Heath-hen, the, 142.
* Hickman, Bill, the Danite, 191, 344.
* Hierarchy of the Mormons, 399, 403.
* High Mountain, 458.
* Historian and Recorder's Office in Great Salt Lake City, 419, 426.
* Holmes, the ungenial man, 177.
* Horse Creek, 79.
* Horse" Creek," breakfast at, 84.
* Horse" Creek," inmates of the station at, 80, 81.
* Horse-fly, a green-headed, 168. ​
* Horseshoe Creek, gold found at, 165.
* Horseshoe" Station, 91.
* Horses, Indian, 56, 57-8.
* Horses," of the Dakotah Indians, 99.
* Horse-stealing, punishment for, in the Western States, 90, 360.
* Hotels in Great Salt Lake City, 201.
* Hotels" in the Far West, 201, note.
* Hot springs near Great Salt Lake City, 236.
* Hot" springs" analysis of the water of, 236, note.
* Houses, materials of, in Great Salt Lake City, 197, 198.
* Howard, Mr., 457.
* Humboldt River, 480.
* Hunkpapa Indians, 98.
* Hunkpatidan Indians, 97.
* Hunter, President Bishop, 226.
* Huntingdon Valley, 480.
* Hurricanes of Scott's Bluffs, 7S.
* Hyde, John, his work on Mormonism, 208, note.
* Ice springs, 158.
* Ihanktonwan Indians, their habitat and present condition, 97.
* Immorality of the mail-coach drivers, 5.
* Independence Day, New, of the Mormons, 251,
* Independence Day, New, celebration of, 349, note.
* India, remarks on the army system of outposts in, 43, 45.
* Indian arms, 57, 119.
* Indian" arts, 118–19.
* Indian" boys and girls, 59, 107.
* Indian" camp, an, 472.
* Indian" character, 102–3.
* Indian" creed, few rites and ceremonies of the, 115.
* Indian" curriculum of the Prairie, 107.
* Indian" dancing, 110.
* Indian" departments of the United States, management of the, 132.
* Indian dress, 57, 59.
* Indian" farms, 477.
* Indian" fighting, 43.
* Indian" half-breeds, 80.
* Indian" "home," the, 32.
* Indian" horses, 56, 57–8.
* Indian" kleptomania, 60, 102, 103.
* Indian" marriages, 116.
* Indian" mode of hunting the buffalo and preparing the skins, 51, 52.
* Indian mode of stampeding animals, 16–7.
* Indian" mode" of wearing the hair, 56.
* Indian" names, 115.
* Indian" population in the middle of the last and present centuries, 99, note.
* Indian prejudice against speaking, 80.
* Indian" religion of the, 107.
* Indian" reservation, distribution of the, 32.
* Indian" scalping, 112.
* Indian" skull, form and dimensions of the, 105.
* Indian" smoking, 110, 111–12.
* Indian" summer, the, 79, 483.
* Indian" the name, a misnomer for American aborigines, 55.
* Indian village, description of the remove of an, 56.
* Indian" villages and tents, 85.
* Indian" women, 106.
* Indians, account of the Pawnees, 36.
* Indians," best scheme for preserving the race of, 35.
* Indians," causes which rapidly thin the tribesmen, 34.
* Indians, difficulties attending the scheme of civilization of the, 36.
* Indians, effects of alcohol among the various tribes of, 82.
* Indians, ferocity of, and whites, 60,
* Indians," grotesque accounts of the manner in which they formerly received the Gospel, 109.
* Indians, how treated by the United States, 32.
* Indians," kindness of the Mormons to the, 245.
* Indians," languages of the northeastern tribes of, 96, note.
* Indians, Lieutenant Weed's defeat of the Gosh Yutas, 467, 470.
* Indians, mistaken public opinion of the, and of their ancestors, 55.
* Indians, proposals for raising native regiments of, 47.
* Indians, the American philanthropist's mode of civilizing the, 35.
* Indians, the Comanches, 61, note.
* Indians," the dignity of chief, 117.
* Indians," their arrow-poison, 482.
* Indians," their course of life, 117.
* Indians," their future considered, 101.
* Indians," their "home," 32.
* Indians," their murder of Loscier and Applegate, 484.
* Indians, their opinion of their own strength, 101.
* Indians," their progress toward extinction, 102.
* Indians," their Turanian origin,
* Indians," the, of Utah Territory, 473.
* Indians," the squaws, 59.
* Indians," the Yutas, 474–6.
* Indians," total number of, on the prairies and the Rocky Mountains, 38.
* Indians, tribes and sub-tribes of the Sioux, 96.
* Industry in Great Salt Lake City, 316.
* Industry" list of articles of, 317–320, note.
* Intoxicating drink, a new, 24, note.
* Intoxicating" drink," mode of manufacturing "Indian liquor," 81–2.
* Intoxicating drink, one made from a cactus, 64, note.
* Irish women in the West, 175.
* Iron County, coal and iron found in, 282.
* Iron" found in Utah Territory, 281.
* Island, Antelope, or Church, 194, 323, 327.
* Island," Bonhomme, 15.
* Island," Carrington, 327.
* Island," Cedar, the first, in the Missouri, 41.
* Island," Dolphin, 327.
* Island," Frémont, 328.
* Island," Grande, in the Platte River, 39.
* Island," Gunnison's, 327.
* Island," Hat, 327.
* Island," Stansbury, 327.
* Islets of La Grande Platte River, 40.
* Itazipko, Sans Arc, or No-Bow Indians, their habitat, 98.
* Itinerary, the emigrant's, 505.
* Itinerary," of the mail route from Great Salt Lake City to San Francisco, 511.
* Jack, the Arapaho Indian, and his squaw, 146, 147.
* Jackal, the, of the Western world, 64. See Coyote.
* Jacques, Elder John, his Mormon works, 212, note.
* James River, Indians of, 97.
* Jesuitism as a means of civilization of the Indians, 85.
* Jimsen weed, 111.
* Jo, St., city of, 12, 15.
* Johnston's Settlement, 451.
* Jones, Elder Dan, his Mormon works, 215, note.
* Jordan, New, its course in the Wasach Mountains, 332.
* Jordan, New, the river in Great Salt Lake City, 3, 325.
* "Jornada," or day's march, 167.
* Junction-House Ranch, 53,
* Kamas Prairie, 182, and note.
* Kane, Colonel T.L., account of him, 204, note.
* Kane," Colonel" T.L.," his work on the Mormons, 204, note.
* Kansas, a specimen of squatter life in, 19.
* Kansas," "bleeding," 16.
* Kansas," "gales," 21.
* Kansas," prairies of, 17.
* Kansas," rainy season in, 16.
* Kansas," shanties in, 18.
* "Kansas-Nebraska Act," passing of the, 33. ​
* Kanyon Creek, Big, 191.
* Kanyon" Creek," Big," station at, 191.
* Kanyon" near Great Salt Lake City, purity of the water of the, 332.
* Kanyon, the Devil's Gate, 151.
* Kanyons, stupendous, of Northern Mexico, 139, note.
* Kanyons, the, of America, 139, note.
* Kearney, Fort, 41.
* Kearney," Fort," longitude of, 6.
* Kelly, W., Esq., J.P., his chapters on Mormonism, 204, note.
* "Keening" the dead practiced among the Indians, 122.
* Kennedy, the Ras Kafilah, 455.
* Kennedy's Hole, 460.
* Kennekuk, in Kansas, halt at, 19.
* Kickapoo Indians, description of the, 20.
* Kickapoo" Indians," mode of building the tents of the, 85.
* Kickapoo Indians, strength of the tribe of, 20.
* Kickapoo" Indians," the, 19.
* Kimball, Heber C., his address in the Bowery, 262.
* Kimball" Heber C., " the president, account of, 241.
* Kinnikinik smoked by the American Indian, 111.
* Kinnikinik" the, 31.
* Kiowa Creek, Little, 79.
* Kiowa" Indians, lodges of the, 86.
* Kiowa" Indians," or Prairie-men, sign of the tribe of the, 124.
* Kisiskadjiwan River, Indians on the, 100.
* Kit, the traveler's, 9.
* Kiyuksa, or breakers of law, Indians, 97.
* Kleptomania of the Indians, 60.
* Kleptomania" of the Sioux, 102, 103.
* La Bonté Creek, 135.
* "Ladies" in the Prairies, 91, 92.
* Lake Alkali, 153.
* Lake" Carson, 274, 491.
* Lake" Cotton-wood, Great, 347.
* Lake" Devil's, 97.
* Lake" Great Salt, 194, 322, 323.
* Lake" Little Salt, 274.
* Lake" Miniswakan, 100.
* Lake" Mono, 274.
* Lake" Mud, 274
* Lake" Nicollet, 274.
* Lake" of the Hot Springs, 195.
* Lake" of the Wasach Mountains, 347.
* Lake" of the Woods, 100.
* Lake" Pyramid, 274.
* Lake" qui Parle, 96.
* Lake" Saleratus, 147.
* Lake" Stone, 96.
* Lake" Traverse, 96.
* Lake" Utah, or Sweet-water Reservoir, 274, 382, 446.
* Lake, Walker's, 274.
* Lake," Winnipeg, 100.
* Lakes, Three, 161.
* Lance, the, of the North American Indian, 119.
* Land-tenure of the Mormons, 290.
* Lander's Cut-off, 158.
* Language, its peculiarities, 121.
* Language," men's first and progressive steps in, 121.
* Language, the, of the Sioux, 120.
* Language," the pantomime of the Indians, or sign-system of, 123.
* Languages of the Northeastern Indians, 96, note.
* Laramie City, 88.
* Laramie" City," prices of skins at, 88.
* Laramie" Fort, climate and soil at, 90.
* Laramie" Fort," formerly Fort John, 90.
* Laramie" Fort," longitude of, 6.
* Laramie" Fort," vegetation of the slopes west of, 7.
* Laramie" Hills, geography of the, 134.
* Laramie" Peak, 79.
* Laramie's Fork, 90.
* Lasso, the, 68.
* Last-Timber Station, 71, note.
* Lawrence Fork, 71.
* Lawrence" Fork," origin of the name, 72.
* Leadplant (Amorphe canescens), the, of the American wilderness, 64.
* Leaf-shooter Indians, 96.
* Leather manufactured at Great Salt Lake City, 344,
* Leeches, American, 466–7.
* Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory, 310.
* Lehi City, 447.
* Liberty-poles in the United States, 251.
* Library, public, of Great Salt Lake City, 235.
* Lightning-bug, or fire-fly, 60.
* Lignite in Nebraska, 141.
* Lion House in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
* Lion" the mountain, or cougar, 153, and note.
* Litters, Indian, 58.
* Little Mountain, 192.
* Little" Mr., his tannery, 344,
* Locknan's Station, 21.
* Locknan's" Station," vegetation of, 21.
* Lodge-Pole Creek, or Fork, 64.
* Lodge" -Pole" Station, 66.
* Lodge" -Pole" Station," squalor and wretchedness of, 66.
* London, Mormon meeting-houses in and about, 301, note.
* Long-chin, the Indian murderer, 85.
* Long-" Valley, 471
* Look-out Fort, 97.
* Louis, St., altitude and temperature of, 159.
* Loup Fork, ferry across, 71, note.
* woe Lieutenant W.F., his proprieties of travel, 50, 66.
* Lynn, Catharine Lewis, her work on Mormonism, 206, note.
* Macarthy, Mr., his establishment, 170, 172.
* Macarthy, Mr., " his rough-and-tumble, 183,
* Macarthy, Mr., " of Green-River Station, 170.
* Mail-coach route from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4
* Mail-coach, slow rate of traveling, 5.
* Main or Whisky Street, in Great Salt Lake City, 217
* Maize, question as to its being indigenous to America, 110, note.
* Majors, Mr. Alexander, his efforts to reform the morals of his mail drivers, 5.
* Mankizitah, or White-Earth River, 72.
* Manna in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
* Manufacturers in Utah Territory, 317–20.
* Marcy, Major, 73.
* Marcy," Major," his "Prairie Traveler" quoted, 4.
* Market-place, absence of a, in Great Salt Lake City, 201.
* Marriage among the Mormons, 427, 432.
* Marriage" among the North American Indians, 116.
* Marshall, James W., his discovery of Californian gold, 356.
* Martin, Michael, his store, 178.
* Marysville, or old Palmetto City, trade of, 29.
* Materialism, Mormon, 384.
* Matriya, the "Scattering Bear," death of, 89.
* Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, extent of the, 72.
* Mdewakantonwan Indians, civilization of the, 100.
* Mdewakantonwan" Indians," habitat of the, 96.
* Meadow Creek, 451, 452.
* Medical men in Great Salt Lake City, 278.
* Medicine-man of the Indians, 108.
* Medicine-" the Indians' knowledge of, 118, 119.
* Medicines necessary to the Western traveler, 9, 10.
* Menomene Indians, habitat of the, 96.
* Menomene" Indians," tents of the, 86.
* Meteorology of Utah Territory, 275.
* Methodism, foundation of, 365.
* Mexico, Northern, stupendous kanyons of, 139, note.
* Mezquite, or muskeet-tree (Algarobia glandulosa), 7.
* Midway Station, 49.
* Military departments into which the United States are divided, 42, 43, note.
* Militia force of Great Salt Lake City, 354–5. ​
* Militia force of the United States, general abstract of the, 336, 337.
* Milk River, Indians of, 100.
* Milk weed (Asclepias tuberosa) common in Utah Territory, 167.
* Milk-sickness of the Western States, 284.
* Mill Creek, 195.
* Miller, Captain, of Millersville, 215.
* Miller's Station, 495.
* Millersville, on Smith's Fork, 177.
* Mills, saw, a night passed in one of the, 348.
* Mills, saw, in the kanyons, 347.
* Miniswakan Lake, 100.
* Minnesota Indians, 96, 97.
* Minnikanye-wozhipu Indians, habitat of the, 98.
* Mirage, a curious, 47, 48.
* Mirage, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 164.
* Missionaries, certificates supplied to, 353, 354, note.
* Missionaries, from Great Salt Lake City, 353, 354.
* Missionaries, number of, in Great Britain, 301.
* Mississippi, the, 15.
* Mississippi, Indians of the, 96.
* "Missouri Compromise," the, 33.
* "Missouri Compromise," the, origin of the trouble which gave rise to the, 33, 34, note.
* Missouri, establishment of the mail-coach route from, to California and Oregon, 4.
* Missouri, rainy season in, 16.
* Missouri River, navigation of the, 15.
* Missouri River, sand-banks of the, 15.
* Missouri River, sawyers and snags of the, 15.
* Missouri River, the Great, 15.
* Missouri River, the Little, Indians of the, 15.
* Missouri River, winter season on the, 16.
* Moccasins, Indian mode of making, 57.
* Moccasins, use of, to the prairie traveler, 11.
* Modesty, Mormon, instance of, 268.
* Mollusks of Utah Territory, 280.
* Mono Lake, 274.
* Montagnes Rocheuses, Les, 153, 162.
* Moonshine Valley, 480.
* Moore, "Miss," and her ranche, 154.
* Moore, "Miss," her history, 155.
* Moose deer (Cervus Alces), habitat of the, 68.
* Moravianism regarded as a means of civilization of the Indians, 35.
* Mormon agglomeration of all that is good in all sects, 397, 398.
* Mormon balls and suppers at Social Hall, 230-2.
* Mormon Bible, 367.
* Mormon Bible, contents of the, 368, note.
* "Mormon, Book of," 367, note.
* "Mormon, Book of," chronology of the most important events recorded in the, 411.
* Mormon Conference, description of a, 302-309.
* Mormon dispensation of Mr. Joseph Smith, 183.
* Mormon doctrines and covenants, 371.
* Mormon doxology, remarks on the fourteen articles of the, 387, et seq.
* Mormon emigrants, 137, 176, 180, 181, 182, 225.
* Mormon emigrants, miseries of one of the, 174, 175.
* Mormon emigration, system of, 295.
* Mormon emigration, the regular track of, 174.
* Mormon estimate of outfit for the Utah route, 138, note.
* Mormon feat at Simpson's Hollow, 168.
* Mormon feat near Green River, 173.
* Mormon fugitives on the road, 456.
* Mormon gift of tongues, 268.
* Mormon government, upon what it is based, 301.
* Mormon hierarchy, the, 399.
* Mormon History, chronological abstract of, 548.
* Mormon lad, a, in the South Pass, 166.
* Mormon lectures on faith, 371.
* Mormon materialism, 384.
* Mormon meaning of the word, 361-2.
* Mormon meeting-rooms in London and its vicinity, list of, 301, note.
* Mormon modesty, 268.
* Mormon names, 227.
* Mormon neophytes, behavior of the, 228-9.
* Mormon polygamy, 373, 426, 428, 431, 432.
* Mormon Prophet, visit to the, 237, et seq.
* Mormon Saints, dress of the fair, 227.
* Mormon Scriptures, list of the, 209, note.
* Mormon shanty, Dawvid Lewis and his dirty, 174, 175.
* Mormon tolerance, 351.
* Mormon wagons, trains of, on the road, 137, 176, 180, 181.
* Mormonism, deep root which it has taken in Great Britain, 301.
* Mormonism, final remarks on, 441.
* Mormonism, Lieutenant Gunnison's resumé of, 398.
* Mormonism, list of works published upon the subject of, 203, note.
* Mormonism, objections to, 404.
* Mormonism, sketch of, 361, et seq.
* Mormonism, what it is not, 403.
* Mormonland, account of, 272.
* Mormons, children of the, 423.
* Mormons, description of their Temple, 514.
* Mormons, fondness of the, for sleighing, private theatricals, and dancing, 229–31.
* Mormons, foundation of their city, 288.
* Mormons, how they regard the United States, 250.
* Mormons, kindness of the, to the Indians, 245.
* Mormons, period for, leaving the Mississippi, 138.
* Mormons, political prospects of the, 352.
* Mormons, promulgation of their Constitution, 289, note.
* Mormons, remarks upon the articles of their doxology, 387, et seq.
* Mormons, sketch of the religion of the, 361.
* Mormons, tenure by which they hold their lands, 290.
* Mormons, their belief as to marriages between a Saint and a Gentile, 170, note.
* Mormons, their complaints against Congress, 289, 290.
* Mormons, their Emigration Road, 71.
* Mormons, their hierarchy, 399.
* Mormons, their materialism, 384.
* Mormons, their Nauvoo Legion, 354–5.
* Mormons, their new Independence-day, 251.
* Mormons, their newspapers, 255.
* Mormons, their politics, 251.
* Mormons, their polygamy, 373.
* Mormons, their punishment for adultery, 252.
* Mormons, their quasi-military organization on the march, 138.
* Mormons, their sermons in the Bowery, 260, 264.
* Mormons, their tithes, 249–50.
* Morning on the prairies, 131.
* Motherhood, how regarded in the Western States, 432.
* Moufflon, the American, 153, 155.
* Mountain, Big, 190.
* Mountain, Ensign, 196.
* Mountain, Little, 192.
* Mountain Meadow Massacre, 339.
* Mountain Point, 195, 459.
* Mountain, Quaking-Asp, 181.
* Mountain, Rim-Base, 181.
* Mountain Springs, 462.
* "Mountaineer," Mormon newspaper, 257.
* Mountaineers of the West, 81.
* Mountains, Bear-River, 174.
* Mountains, Black, 133, 142.
* Mountains, Granite, 454.
* Mountains, Green-River, or Sweet-water Hills, 153.
* Mountains, High, 458.
* Mountains, Laramie, 91, 134.
* Mountains, Laramie Peak, 79, 85.
* Mountains of Utah Territory, singular formation of the, 275.
* Mountains, Oquirrh, 191, 194, 322.
* Mountains, Rocky, 153, et seq.
* Mountains, Traverse, 332.
* Mountains, Uinta, 176, 178.
* Mountains, Wasach, 189, 195, 322, 330.
* Mountains, White, 450.
* Mountains, Wind-River, 68, 162, 163, 164, 166. ​
* Mud Lake, 274.
* Mud Spring station, 71.
* Muddy Creek, Big, 180.
* Muddy Creek, Little, 140, 180.
* Muddy Creek, Little, the Canadian station-master at, 180.
* Muddy Creek, Little, wretched station at, 140.
* Muddy Fork, 174.
* Mules in the West, 135.
* Mules, obstinacy of, 14.
* Mules, of Central America, 13, 14.
* Mules, rate of progress of, 14.
* Mules, recalcitrancies of, 157, 167.
* Murder, Mormon punishment for, 426.
* Murders in and near Great Salt Lake City, 225, 339.
* Murders in Carson City, 225.
* Murphy, Captain, his loyalty, 181.
* Muskrat Station, 159.
* Muskrat the, 159, note.
* Mustang of the Black Hills, 142.
* Mustang the, or prairie pony, 68, note.
* Myers, Mr., the Mormon of Bear-River Valley, 182.
* Mysteries of Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
* Names, Indian, 115.
* Names, of the Mormons, 227.
* Nauvoo Legion, account of the, 354-5.
* Nauvoo Legion, story of two warriors of the, 187.
* Nebraska, meaning of the word, 40.
* Nebraska River. See Platte, La Grande.
* Nebraska, Southern, rainy season in, 16.
* Needle Rocks, 183.
* Nemehaw Creek, Big, 21.
* Neophytes, Mormon, behavior of the, 228-9.
* Newspapers in Great Salt Lake City, 255.
* Nicollet Lake, 274.
* Niobrara, or Eau qui court River, 40, 72.
* Nullah. See Arroyo.
* Oats, wild (Avena fatua), of the Pacific water-shed, 139.
* "Obelisks, the," 188.
* O'Fallon's Bluffs, 48, 53.
* Officials, federal, behavior in Great Salt Lake City of the, 421.
* Ojibwa Indians, habitat of the, 100, 101.
* Ojibwa, the name, 100, note.
* Ogalala, or Okandanda Indians, habitat of the, 98.
* Ogalala, village of the, 85.
* Omaha Creek, or Little Punkin, 71.
* Onions, wild, of the valley of the Little Blue River, 31.
* Oohenonpa Indians, habitat and numbers of the, 98.
* Ophthalmia in Utah Territory, 278.
* Opinion, public, in Great Salt Lake City, 197.
* Oquirrh Mountains, 191, 194, 322.
* Oregon, boundary-stone between it and Utah, 169.
* Oregon, establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to, 4.
* Oregon, origin of the name, 169, note.
* Ormsby, Mayor, his death, 479.
* Osages, account of the tribe of the, 34.
* Osages, cession of the territory of the, 34.
* Osages, mode of building the lodges of the, 85.
* Ottagamies, the Indian tribe of, 20, note.
* Outfit, the traveler's, 9.
* Outposts, remarks on the United States army system of, 43, 44.
* Owl, the burrowing (Strix cunicularia), 66.
* Oxen shod at Great Salt Lake City, 270.
* Ox-riding, 24, note.
* Pabakse, or Cut-Head Indians, 97.
* Pacific Creek, 167.
* Pacific Railroad, difficulties of a, 277.
* Pacific Railroad, routes proposed for a, 3.
* Pacific Springs, 163.
* Pacific Springs, station at, 163, 166.
* Padouca River, 60, 63.
* Pantomime, Indian, or speaking with the fingers, 123.
* Pantomime, preliminary signs for the traveler, 124.
* Pantomime, signs of some of the Indian tribes, 123.
* Pantomime, various other signs, 124-30.
* Panama, 501.
* Parley's Kanyon, 195, 344.
* Patriarch, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
* Pawnee Indians, account of the, 36.
* Pawnee Indians, principal sub-tribes of the, 37.
* Pawnee Indians, readiness of the, to cut off a single traveler, 138.
* Pawnee Indians, sign of the tribe of the, 123.
* Peddlers, licensed and unlicensed, 81.
* Penitentiary, the, of Great Salt Lake City, 271.
* Phelps, Judge and Apostle, his "Sermon on the Mount," 196, note.
* Phelps, Judge and Apostle, visit to, 253.
* Pigeons a constant dish in Italy, 38.
* "Pike's Peakers" on the road, 60.
* Pine-tree Stream, 174.
* Pine Valley, 480.
* Piñon-tree, fruit of the, 466.
* Piñon-tree (P. monophyllus) of the West, 285.
* Pipes of the Côteau des Prairies, 88.
* "Pitch-holes or chuck-holes" of the prairies, 18.
* Placerville City, 499.
* Platte Bridge, delicious climate of, 137.
* Platte, Fort, 90.
* Platte River, a dust storm in the valley of the, 75.
* Platte River, appearance of the, at Platte Bridge, 136.
* Platte River, beauty of the banks of the, 39.
* Platte River, character of the soil beyond the immediate banks of the, 41.
* Platte River, coal found on the banks of the, 141.
* Platte River, division of the, into the northern and southern streams, 60.
* Platte River, farewell to the, 146.
* Platte River, fording the, 63.
* Platte River, La Grande, or Nebraska, 39.
* Platte River, Lower Ferry over the, 140.
* Platte River, noxious exhalations from the, 48.
* Platte River, shallowness of the, 40.
* Platte River, tender adieux at the upper crossing of the, 62.
* Platte River, timber on the banks of the, 40, 41.
* Platte River, wild garden on the shores of the, 41.
* Pleasant Valley, 461.
* Plum Creek, 48.
* Plum Creek Ranche, soil about, 48.
* Poetry of the Sioux Indians, 122.
* Point Look-out, 454.
* Poison Springs, 461.
* Poisons, animal and vegetable, of the Prairie Indians, 120.
* Polar plant, the, 48.
* Police, private, of Mormon life, 224.
* Police, public, of Great Salt Lake City, 224.
* Polygamy among the Mormons, 373, 426.
* Polygamy, justification of, 384.
* Polygamy, Mrs. Pratt's letter on, 433, et seq.
* Polygamy, results of, 428.
* Polygamy, revelation to Joseph Smith on, 373.
* Polygamy, views of women respecting, 431.
* Pony Express, the, 28, note.
* Pony Express, the, on the road, 169.
* Pony Express, postage by the, 29.
* Pony Express, riders of the, 29.
* Population of Utah Territory, 294.
* Population of Utah Territory, excess of females, 301.
* Populus tremuloides, the, 180.
* Postal system of the United States, evils of the contract system, 172, 173, note.
* Powder River, Indians of the, 97.
* Prairie, absence of animal life on the, 18.
* Prairie, an evening in the, 38.
* Prairie compass, the, 48.
* Prairie dog, the (Cynomys Ludovicianus), 66.
* Prairie dog, his associates, reptiles, birds, and beasts, 66.
* Prairie-dog village, 65. ​
* Prairie fever, cause of the, 22.
* Prairie, fires, the, 29.
* Prairie, fires, effects of, on the temperature of the air, 79.
* Prairie hen, heath hen, or pinnated grouse, 142.
* Prairie, land of the United States, 6.
* Prairie, monotony of the, 18.
* Prairie, monotony of the rolling, 69.
* Prairie, or "perrairey," the Western, peculiarities of the, 17.
* Prairie, pitch-holes or "chuck-holes" of the, 18.
* Prairie pony, or mustang, 68, note.
* Prairie saddle, the, 24, 25.
* Prairie, skeleton of the earth at the bluffs, 29.
* Prairie squirrel, the (Spermophilus tredecimlineatus), 159, note.
* Prairie storm, a, 21.
* Prairie the grand, 17.
* "Prairie Traveler," the, of Captain R. B. Marcy, quoted, 4.
* Prairie trees, progressive decay of the, 69.
* Prairie turnip, the, 182, note.
* Prairie "weed," 48.
* Prairie wolf, or coyote, 64.
* Prairie, wolf, the, 30.
* Prairies, alternate puffs of hot and cold winds in the, 79.
* Prairies, blanched bones on the, 48.
* Prairies, clouds of grasshoppers in the, 69.
* Prairies, names of different kinds of, 48.
* Prairies, the buffalo the "monarch of the," 50.
* Pratt, Mrs. Belinda M., letter of, on polygamy, 433, et seq.
* Pratt, Orson, account of, 353.
* Pratt, Orson, "the Gauge of Philosophy," Mormon works of, 212, note.
* Pratt, Parley P., Mormon works of, 211, 212, note.
* Pratt, Parley P., murder of, 340, and note.
* Prêle River, the, 136.
* President, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 399.
* Prices in Great Salt Lake City, 321.
* Priests, high, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 399.
* Prophecies of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, 356, note.
* Protestantism, origin of, 364.
* Provo City, 189, 219, 333, note.
* Provo River, 333.
* Puma, the, 153, note.
* Punishments, Indian, 103.
* Punkin Creek, Little, 71.
* Pyramid Lake, 274.
* Quaking-Asp Creek, 161.
* Quaking-Asp Hill, 181.
* Quaking-Asp (Populus tremuloides), 180.
* Rabbit-bush, the, 158.
* Race-course Bluff, 179.
* Railroad Kanyon, 480.
* Railroad, Pacific, Mr. Jefferson Davis's estimate of the cost of the, 3, note.
* Rain-storms at Weber-River Station, 188.
* Rainy season in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Southern Nebraska, 16.
* "Ranch," the, at Turkey Creek, 30.
* Rancho, the, in Mexico and California, 5, note.
* Rattlesnake bites and their remedies, 156.
* Rattlesnake Hills, the, 151, 153.
* Rattlesnakes, 156.
* Red Butte, 195.
* Red region, the, 136.
* Reese's River, 486.
* Regshaw, Mr., his bridge over the Platte, 140.
* Reid, Captain Mayne, remarks on his "Wild Huntress," 209, note.
* Religion of the Indians generally, 107.
* Religion of the Mormons, sketch of the, 361, et seq.
* Religion of the Sioux, 103.
* Religions of the United States, list of, 363, note.
* Remy, Jules, and Mr. Brenchley, their work on the Mormons, 204, note.
* Revenge, Indian, 103.
* Revolvers, value of, 9.
* Reynal, M., of Horse-Creek Station, 80.
* Reynal, M., sketch of, and his career, 81.
* Rice, the wild (Zizania aquatica), 96, note.
* Richland town extinct, 21.
* Rifles, Hawkins's, 9.
* Riggs's, Rev. S. R., dictionary of the Sioux language, 120, 121.
* River, Assiniboin, 100.
* River Bank and Stream camping-ground on the Sweetwater, 158.
* River, Bear, 182, 325.
* River, Black's Fork, 174, 176, 177.
* River, Blue, Big, 29.
* River, Blue Earth, 96.
* River, Blue, Little, 31, 38.
* River, Cannon, 96.
* River, Carson, 493.
* River, Colorado, 162.
* River, Columbia, 162.
* River, Des Moines, 96.
* River, Fox, 19.
* River, Frémont's Peak, 153, 161, 164.
* River, Grand, Neosho, or White-Water, 34.
* River, Green, 162, 166, 170, 284.
* River, Ham's Fork, 174.
* River, Humboldt, 480.
* River, James, 97.
* River, Kisiskadjiwan, 100.
* River, Milk, 100.
* River, Mississippi, 15, 97.
* River, Missouri, 15, 97.
* River, Missouri, Little, 97.
* River, Muddy Fork, 174.
* River, New Jordan, 233, 325.
* River, Niobrara, or Eau qui court, 40, 72.
* River, Padouca, 60, 63.
* River, Platte, La Grande, or Nebraska, 39, 60.
* River, Platte, 162.
* River, Powder, 97.
* River, Prêle, 136.
* River, Reese's, 485, 486.
* River, Sandy, Big, 30, 169.
* River, Sandy, Little, 30.
* River, Sioux, Big, 97.
* River, Smith's Fork, 176.
* River, Snake, 162.
* River, Snowy-Peak, 164.
* River, Sweetwater, or Pina Pa, 150, 158, 161, 162.
* River, Timpanogos, 182, 333.
* River, Weber, 182, 188, 189, 325.
* River, White-Earth, or Mankizitah, 72.
* River, Wind, 162.
* River, Yellow-Stone, 162.
* Road from Fort Kearney, 47.
* Road from the Black Hills, 134.
* Roads from Great Salt Lake City to California, 452.
* Roads, junction of the Great Salt Lake City and Fort Hall, 167.
* Robber's Roost Station, 468.
* Robidoux, Antoine, notice of, 75, note.
* Robidoux, Fort, 75.
* Robinson ("Uncle Jack"), 177.
* Rock, Independence, 148.
* Rock, Independence, names inscribed on, 149.
* Rock or Turkey Creek, 30.
* Rock or Turkey Creek, the "ranch" at, 30.
* "Rocks" of the West, 19.
* Rockwell, Orrin Porter, account of, 448-9.
* Rockwell, Orrin Porter, excellent advice of, 449.
* Rockwell, Orrin Porter, the Danite, 191.
* Rocky Mountains, a humble-bee on the topmost summit of the, 165.
* Rocky Mountains, first view of the, 153.
* Rocky Mountains, heights of the, 7, 153, et seq.
* Rocky Mountains, surface of the land on the western slopes of the, 8.
* Rocky Mountains, temperature on the counterslope of the South Pass of the, 168.
* Rogers, Colonel, or "Uncle Billy," 471.
* Rose, the apostate Jew and Mormon, 456.
* Routes proposed for a Pacific Railroad, 3. ​
* Routes proposed for a Pacific Railroad, difficulties of, 277.
* Ruby Valley, 471.
* Russell, Mr. W. H., and the Pony Express, 28, and note.
* Russell, Mr. W. H., and the Pony Express, slowness of the transport by, 136.
* Rush Valley, 451, 453.
* Sac Indians, tents of the, 86.
* Sac Indians, the, 19.
* Saddle, the native Indian, 25.
* Saddle, the prairie, 24, 25.
* Sage at Rocky-Bridge Station, 161.
* Sage hen or prairie-hen, 142.
* Sage Springs, 486.
* Sage, wild (artemisia or absinthe), description of, 53, 54.
* Saleratus Lake, 147, 148.
* Saleratus Lake, startling appearance of, 148.
* Salmon trout of the Green River, 170.
* Salt grass, 148.
* Salt Lake City, Great. See Great Salt Lake City.
* Salt Lake, Great. See Great Salt Lake.
* Salt Lake House Hotel, 201.
* Salt Lake, Little, 274.
* Salt, quantity of, in the water of Great Salt Lake, 325–6.
* Saltpetre not found in Utah Territory, 282.
* San Francisco, 500.
* Sand-banks of the Missouri, 15.
* Sand hills, the tract called the, 70, note.
* Sand Springs Station, 491.
* Sandstone at Grasshopper Creek, 21.
* Sandy Creek, 71.
* Sandy Creek, Big, or Wágáhongopá, 167.
* Sandy Creek, Little, 167.
* Sandy River, Big, 30, 169.
* Sandy River, Little, 30, 169.
* Sans Arc Sioux Indians, habitat of the, 98.
* Sault Ste. Marie, Indians at, 100.
* Saurians of Utah Territory, 280.
* Sawyers and snags of the Missouri, 15.
* Scalping, origin of the custom of, 112.
* Scalping, considered as a religious rite, 113.
* Schools in Great Salt Lake City, 345.
* Schools, principal, 425.
* Scott's Bluffs, 77.
* Scott's Bluffs, hurricanes of, 78.
* Scott's Bluffs, origin of the name, 78.
* Scythians, scalping rites of the, 112.
* Seasons, the, in Utah Territory, 277.
* Seneca City, in Kansas, 21.
* Seventeen-mile Station, 48.
* Seventies, the, in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
* Sevier, Mr., the Mormon, 463.
* Shanties, 18.
* Shanties, of Seneca City, 21, 22.
* Shanties, origin of the word, 18, note.
* Shanty, a, in Kansas, 19.
* Shanty, the, at Pacific Springs, 166.
* Shanty, the dirty, of Ham's Fork, 174, 175.
* Shawnees, their lodges, 86.
* Sheawit Creek, 482.
* Shell Creek, 465, 466.
* Shops in Great Salt Lake City, 217.
* Shoshonee Indians, 473–4.
* Shoshonee Indians, their friendliness to whites, 165.
* Sibley, Major, his improved tent, 87.
* Sichangu, Brûlé, or Burnt-Thigh Indians, habitat of the, 98.
* Sierra Nevada, the, 493.
* Sign-system of language among the Indians, 123.
* Silva, Luis, and his wife, 154.
* Silver found in Utah Territory, 281.
* Silver, virgin, found in the White Mountains, 450, note.
* Simpson's Hollow, 168.
* Simpson's Hollow, feat of the Mormons at, 168.
* Simpson's Park, 485.
* Simpson's Pass, 486.
* Simpson's Road, 481.
* Sioux Indian, a "buck," 89.
* Sioux Indian, meaning of the name "Sioux," 95, 96.
* Sioux Indians, books printed in their tongue, 120, 121.
* Sioux Indians, character of the, 102.
* Sioux Indians, constitution of the, 104.
* Sioux Indians, dependence of the, on the buffalo for subsistence, 51.
* Sioux Indians, destruction of Lieutenant Grattan and his party by the, 88.
* Sioux Indians, funeral ceremonies of the, 122.
* Sioux Indians, future of the, 100, 101.
* Sioux Indians, habits of the, in former times and at present, 102.
* Sioux Indians, language of the, 120.
* Sioux Indians, lodges of the, 86.
* Sioux Indians, manners and customs of the, 99.
* Sioux Indians, murder of M. Montalan by the, 91.
* Sioux Indians, poetry and songs of the, 122.
* Sioux Indians, present habitat of the, 95.
* Sioux Indians, principal bands into which the race is divided, 95–98.
* Sioux Indians, religion of the, 103.
* Sioux Indians, revenge of the, 103.
* Sioux Indians, sacred language of the, 122.
* Sioux Indians, sign of the tribe of, 124.
* Sioux Indians, skill in archery of the, 120.
* Sioux Indians, the Brûlé, their defeat at Ash Hollow, 70.
* Sioux Indians, women of the, 103.
* Sioux River, Big, 97.
* Sisahapa, or Blackfeet Indians, 98.
* Sisitonwan Indians, habitat of the, 96.
* Skins, prices of, at Laramie City, 88.
* Skull of the Indian, its form and dimensions, 105.
* Skull Valley, 454.
* Skunk, the, 189.
* Slade, the redoubtable, 92, 173.
* Slavery legalized in Utah, 243.
* Sleighing in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
* Smith, Captain John, the Mormon patriarch, 180.
* Smith, George A., the Mormon apostle, account of, 241.
* Smith, Joseph, account of the martyrdom of, 517.
* Smith, Joseph, his works, 209, 210, note.
* Smith, Joseph, his second son David, 241.
* Smith, Joseph, his son Joseph, of Nauvoo, 240.
* Smith, Joseph, vindicated, 405–6.
* Smith, Mrs. M. E. V., her works on Mormonism, 207, 208, note.
* Smith's Creek, 486.
* Smith's Fork, 176.
* Smoking among the American Indians, 110.
* Smoking material of the Wild Man of the North, 31.
* Smoky Valley, 484.
* Smoot, Bishop Abraham O., his address in the Bowery, 260.
* "Smudge," a, before sleep, 165.
* Snags and sawyers of the Missouri, 15.
* Snake Indians at Ham's Fork, 174.
* Snake Indians, lodges of the, 86.
* Snake River, fountain-head of the, 162.
* Snake River, Indian name for, 167, note.
* Snakeroots, 156, 157, note.
* Snow Creek, 140.
* Snow Creek, country about, 141, 142.
* Snow, Lorenzo, his Mormon works, 212, note.
* Snowy Peak, 164.
* Social Hall in Great Salt Lake City, 229.
* Social Hall, fêtes at, 230, 231.
* Soda, carbonate of, in Saleratus Lake, 147, and note.
* Soda, or Beer Springs, 179.
* Soil at Fort Laramie, 90.
* Soil beyond the immediate banks of La Grande Platte River, 41.
* Soil near Plum Ranche, on the Platte River, 48.
* Soil of Big Sandy River, 169.
* Soil of the bench-land of Great Salt Lake Valley, 195. ​
* Soil of the country beyond the Warm Springs, 158.
* Soil of the Valley of the Black Hills, 134.
* Soil of Utah Territory, 283.
* Soldiers, army grievances of, 445.
* Soldiers, at Camp Floyd, 444.
* Soldiers, discharged, on the road home, 154.
* Soldiers, disliked in the United States, 336.
* Soldiers manners and customs of the, of former times, 444–5.
* Soldiers, United States, dress of, 446.
* Songs of the Sioux Indians, 122.
* South-Pass City, in the Rocky Mountains, 161.
* South-Pass of the Rocky Mountains, 161.
* South-Pass its extent and height above sea level, 162.
* South Pass the fountain-head of some of the great rivers of America, 161.
* Spencer, Elder Orson, his works on Mormonism, 212, note.
* Spring Valley, 466.
* Spur, the prairie, 27.
* Squatter life in Kansas, a specimen of, 19.
* Squatter life, difficulties and dangers of, 101.
* Squaws, Indian, 59.
* Squaws, Indian, dirty cookery of the, 80.
* Squaws, of the Sioux Indians, 103.
* Squirrel, the chipmonk or chipmuk, 159, note.
* Squirrel, the ground, 159.
* Squirrel, the spotted prairie, 159, note.
* Staines, Mr. W. C., the Mormon, 269.
* Stalking the antelope on the prairies, 67.
* Stambaugh, Colonel, 233.
* Stampede, the great dread of the prairie traveler, 76.
* Stansbury, Captain, his scruples as to the observance of Sunday on the march, 149.
* Stansbury, Captain, his work on Mormonism, 203, note.
* Stansbury Island, 327.
* Stenhouse, Elder T. B. H., and his wife, 223.
* Stirrup, the prairie, 26.
* Store, a, in the Valley of the Platte, 53.
* Storm, prairie, at Walnut Creek, 21.
* Storm of dust in the Valley of the Platte, 75.
* Stone Lake, Big, Indian tribes at, 96.
* Stone used for the Mormon temple, 195.
* Strawberries, wild, 161.
* Strawberry Creek, 161.
* Streets of Great Salt Lake City, 216, 217.
* Sturgis, Captain, his chastisement of the Indians, 43.
* Suckers, the fish so called, 152.
* Sugar House in Great Salt Lake City, 271.
* Sulphur Creek, 181.
* Sulphurous pools in Great Salt Lake Valley, 274.
* Sumach, the, 31.
* Summer, the Indian, 79, 483.
* Sumner, Brigadier General, his chastisement of the Indians, 43.
* Sunflower, the, in the Valley of the Little Blue River, 31.
* Sunflower, value of its seeds, 31.
* Superstition of the Indian, 107, 108.
* Sweetwater Hills, or Green-River Mountains, the, 153.
* Sweetwater River, influents of the, 161.
* Sweetwater River, its beauty, 153, 154.
* Sweetwater River, its water, 150.
* Sweetwater River, M'Achran's Branch of, 161.
* Sweetwater River, or Pina Pa, 150, 158.
* Syracuse, in Kansas, 18.
* Tabernacle, the, of Great Salt Lake City, 219, 220.
* Table Mountain, 162.
* Tangle-leg, a new intoxicating liquor, 24, note.
* Tannery of Mr. Little at Great Salt Lake City, 344.
* Tar Springs, 182.
* Taxes of Great Salt Lake City, 315.
* Taylor, John, the Mormon apostle, 270.
* Teachers and deacons in the Mormon hierarchy, 403.
* Teeth of the Indian, 106.
* Temperature at Fort Laramie, 90.
* Temperature at the Foot of Ridge Station, 159.
* Temperature of St. Louis, 159.
* Temperature on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 168.
* Temple Block in Great Salt Lake City, 217.
* Temple description of the, 515.
* Tent, Major Sibley's, 87.
* Tents of the Prairie Indians, 85, 86.
* Tetrao pratensis, 142.
* Tetrao urophasianus, 142.
* Thermal Springs near Great Salt Lake City, 236.
* Thermal Springs near Great Salt Lake City, analysis of the waters of, 236, note.
* Thirty-two-mile Creek, 38.
* Thirty-two-mile Creek, the station at, 38.
* Three Lakes, 161.
* "Thunder, Little," chief of the Brûlé Sioux, defeated and deposed, 89.
* "Thunder, Little," description of, 132.
* "Thunder, Little," visit from, 132.
* Thunder-storms in Utah, 276.
* Timber of Grasshopper Creek, 21.
* Timber of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
* Timber of La Grande Platte River, 40, 41, 53.
* Timber of Locknan's Station, 21.
* Timber of the Black Hills, 134.
* Timber of the Mississippi, 15.
* Timber progressive decay of prairie, 69.
* Timber the Western man's instinctive dislike of, 170.
* Timber, want of, in Utah Territory, 284.
* Time, the Indian's notion of, 118.
* Timpanogos Kanyon, visit to, 446.
* Timpanogos or Provo River, 333.
* Timpanogos Water, 182.
* Tithes paid by the Mormons, 249.
* Tithing House in Great Salt Lake City, 249.
* Titonwan Indians, habitat and present condition of the, 97.
* Titonwan Indians, sub-tribes of the, 98.
* Tobacco, the traveler's outfit of, 10.
* Tobacco, use of, among the American Indians, 110.
* Toilet of the prairie traveler, 10.
* Tolerance of the Mormons, 351.
* Tongues, gift of, 268.
* Tonkowas, tents of the, 85.
* Tophet, 454.
* Totem, the, of the Indian, 108.
* Towakamies, tents of the, 85.
* Townsend, Mr., the Mormon hotel-keeper, 202.
* Traders, licensed and unlicensed, 81.
* Trafalgar Square, barbarous incongruity of, 185.
* Trapper, the, of sixty years ago, 83.
* Travel, proprieties of, 149.
* Travelers, mismanagement of inexperienced, 229.
* Traveling, slow rate of, of the mail-coaches from Missouri to California and Oregon, 5.
* Traverse, Lake, Indians at, 96.
* Traverse Mountain, 332.
* Trona formation of Alkali Lake, 153.
* Trona formation of Saleratus Lake, 147, note.
* Troy, in Kansas, 18.
* Turkey Creek, or Rock, 30.
* Turkey Creek, the "ranch" at, 30.
* Turnip, the prairie, 182, note.
* "Twelve, the," in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
* "Twin Peaks" of the Wasach Mountains, 195.
* Twiss, Major, 138.
* Uinta Hills, 176, 178.
* Uncle John's Grocery, 27.
* Uncle John's Grocery, Indians at, 27.
* United States, eastern and western divisions of the, 6.
* United States, extent of the, 6.
* United States, military departments into which they are divided, 42, 43, note.
* United States, "Prairie land" of the, 6.
* United States, present policy of the, toward the Indian, 101. ​
* United States, proposal for establishing a camel corps in the, 46.
* United States, remarks on the army system of outposts in the, 43, 44.
* Utah Indians, lodges of the, 86.
* Utah Lake, or Sweetwater Reservoir, 274, 332, 444, 446.
* Utah Territory, bad effects of conflicting judiciaries in, 312.
* Utah Territory, boundaries of, 273.
* Utah Territory, cities and counties of, 291–3.
* Utah Territory, climate of, 275.
* Utah Territory, configuration of the country, 273.
* Utah Territory, diseases in, 278.
* Utah Territory, geography of, 273.
* Utah Territory, geology of, 281.
* Utah Territory, grazing in, 284.
* Utah Territory, Indians of, 473.
* Utah Territory, lakes of, 274.
* Utah Territory, Legislative Assembly of, 310.
* Utah Territory, minerals of, 281.
* Utah Territory, Mormon government in, 301.
* Utah Territory, origin of the name, 272.
* Utah Territory, population of, 294.
* Utah Territory, present state of agriculture in, 285.
* Utah Territory, principal value of, 287.
* Utah Territory, proposed route to, 3.
* Utah Territory, rights of the citizens of, 311.
* Utah Territory, scourges of crickets and grasshoppers in, 284.
* Utah Territory, singular formation of the mountains of, 275.
* Utah Territory, soil of, 283.
* Utah Territory, springs of, 274.
* Utah Territory, the Great Desert of, 455.
* Utah Territory, the Indian bureau of, 476.
* Utah Territory, the past of Mormonland, 288.
* Utah Territory, United States officials in, 309–10.
* Utah Territory, want of timber in, 284–5.
* Utah Territory, wild animals of, 279.
* Valley Home, in Kansas, 19.
* "Valley Tan," origin of the name, 170, and note.
* Vegetables grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
* Vegetation at Black Fork, 176, 177–8.
* Vegetation at Quaking-Asp Hill, 181.
* Vegetation of Big Kanyon, 192, 193.
* Vegetation of Big Mountain, 190.
* Vegetation of Big Sandy Creek, 167, 169.
* Vegetation of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
* Vegetation of Kansas, 17.
* Vegetation of Little Blue River, 31.
* Vegetation of the banks of La Grande Platte River, 41, 48, 52, 53.
* Vegetation of the valleys of the Black Hills, 134.
* Vegetation of the Wind-River Mountains, 163.
* Veranda, a model, 53.
* Vermilion Creek, 27.
* Viburnum dentatum, 119.
* Villages, Indian, 86.
* Violin, Mormon fondness for the, 177.
* Waddington, Mr., the Mormon, 463.
* Wágáhongopá, or Glistening Gravel Water, 167.
* Wagon trains of the Great American Sahara, 22.
* Wagons, various uses of the, of the prairies, 71.
* Wagons, price of the, called ambulances, 73 note.
* Wahpekute Indians, habitat of the, 96.
* Wahpetonwan Indians, habitat of the, 96.
* Wakoes, tents of the, 85.
* Walker's Lake, 274.
* Wallace, Mr., at the Bowery, 260.
* Walls, the great, of Great Salt Lake City, 197.
* Walnut Creek, 21.
* Walnut Creek, prairie storm at, 21.
* War-parties among the Indians, 143.
* War-party, return home of a, 144.
* Ward, Mrs. Maria, her work on Mormonism, 206, note.
* Ward, W., the Mormon sculptor and apostate, 246.
* Wards into which Great Salt Lake City is divided, 217.
* Ward's Station, or the "Central Star," 91.
* Warm Springs, 158.
* Warm Springs, barren country beyond, 158.
* Warren, Lieutenant Gouverneur K., report of, on Nebraska quoted, 7.
* Warriors, Indian, 57.
* Wasach Mountains, 189, 195.
* Wasach Mountains, eternal snow of the, 323.
* Washiki, the Shoshonee chief, 165.
* Washington County, Utah Territory, description of, 292, note.
* Water communication, idea of, between the Missouri and the Columbia Rivers, 162, 163, note.
* Water, none in the First Desert, 167.
* Water, scarcity of, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 166.
* Water, supply of, in Great Salt Lake City, 216.
* Wazikute Indians, 97.
* Weapons necessary to the Western traveler, 9.
* Weapons of the North American Indians, 57, 119, 120.
* Weber River, 182.
* Weber River, head and course of the, 188, 325.
* Weber River, rain-storms and cold winds of, 188.
* Weber River, Station, 188.
* Weber River, tributaries of the, 189.
* Weber River, valley of the, 188.
* Weed-prairie, the, 48.
* Wells, General, the Mormon president, account of, 241, 354.
* Western man's home, description of a, 468–9.
* Whisky a favorite with the wagon drivers, 24.
* Whisky "Valley Tan," 170.
* White-Earth River, or Mankizitah, 72.
* White Knife Indians, 481–2.
* White Mountains, 450.
* "White Savages" of the West, 173, and note.
* Wichiyela, or First-Nation Indians, 97.
* Wigwams, huts, or cabins of the Eastern American Indians, 86, note.
* Wilderness, the American, 63.
* Wilderness, the American, animal life in, 64.
* Willow Creek, 161.
* Willow Creek, a little war at, 461.
* Willow Creek, Canadian settlers at, 161.
* Willow Creek, station at, 461.
* Willow Island Ranch, 49.
* Willow Springs Station, 147.
* Willow, the red, the bark of, smoked, 111.
* Wind, alternate hot and cold puffs of, in the prairies, 79.
* Wind River, fountain-head of the, 162.
* Wind River, Mountains, 162, 163, 164.
* Wind River, Mountains, evening view of the, 164.
* Wind River, Mountains, game in the, 68.
* Wind River, Mountains, gold found in the, 165.
* Wind River, Mountains, morning in the, 166.
* Wind River, Mountains, wild animals of the wooded heights, 165.
* Winds, cold, of Weber-River Station, 188.
* Wind-storms of the South Pass, 165.
* Wind, west, almost invariable at the South Pass, 163.
* Winnebagoes, Winnipegs, or Ochangras, Indian tribe of the, 20, note.
* Winnebagoes, their tents, 86.
* Winnipeg Lake, Indians on, 100.
* Witchetaws, tents of the, 85.
* Wright, Mose, 472–3, 481–2.
* Wolves at Rocky Bridge Station, 160, 161.
* Wolves, near Black's Fork, 176.
* Wolves, the prairie, 30.
* Women, excess of the female over the male population in Utah
* Territory, 301.
* Women, house of the wives of the Prophet in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
* Women, Indian, 59, 106.
* Women, Indian names of, 115.
* Women, marriage among the North American Indians, 116.
* Women, Mormon marriage, 427, 432.
* Women, Mormon, their polygamy, 431. ​
* Women, motherhood, how regarded in the Western States, 432.
* Women of the Mormons, 228, 430.
* Women" of the Sioux Indians, 103.
* Women" the half-breed, 80.
* Women" their separation from the men at meals, 117.
* Woodruff, Willford, the Mormon apostle, 242.
* Woodruff," Willford," his garden, 360.
* Woods, Lake of the, Indians of the, 100.
* Woodson, Colonel S.H., his establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4.
* Wool-producing country in the basin of the Green River, 284.
* Yellow Creek, 183.
* Yellow" Creek," Hill, 184.
* Yellow" Stone River, fountain-head of the, 162.
* Yoke, the, of the great American Sahara, 23.
* Yosemite, or Yohamite Falls, 500.
* Young, Brigham, President, extract from one of his sermons, 17, note.
* Young, Brigham, address of, at the Conference, 305–6.
* Young, Brigham, address of, in the Bowery, 261.
* Young," Brigham," alleged personal fear of, 226.
* Young," Brigham," character of, 239–245.
* Young," Brigham," gardens of, 269.
* Young," Brigham," his opinion of woman's counsel, 207, note.
* Young, Brigham, house of, 234.
* Young," Brigham," mode of life of, 240, 242.
* Young," Brigham," nephew of the Prophet, 137.
* Young," Brigham," personal appearance of, 238–9.
* Young," Brigham," remarks of, on the "Indian Wars," 243.
* Young, Brigham, visit to, 237–8.
* Young," Brigham," wealth of, 242.
* Young," Brigham," wives and children of, 240.
* Yuta Indians, "they who live on mountains," sign of their tribe, 124, 477.
* Yuta Indians, a little war with the, 461.
* Yuta" Indians," kindness of the Mormons to the, 245.
* Yuta" Indians," graves of the, 122.
THE END.