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Index Gnats, description around Great Salt Lake, 151,151 n. 65,164,164 n. 87 Gold, discovered in California, 31, 31-32 n. 37; newspaper descriptions of gold discovery, 32 n. 37, 182 n. 129; procla- mation forbidding foreigners from digging gold in California, 43, 43 n. 4; number of men leaving for California, 44 n. 6; coined by Mormons, 86, 86 n. 28; see also Forty-niners and Gold- seekers Gold-seekers, numbers in 1848, 1849, and 1850, 58, 58 n. 25, 96 n. 4; disease and death on trail West, 66 n. 35; see also Forty-niners and Gold Greasewood, description, 130,130 n. 10 Great Salt Lake Valley, description, 82-84 Great Salt Lake, descriptions, 93-96, 119-20,128-29,155, 155 n. 71; myth that lake connected to San Francisco Bay by river called Buenaventura, 94, 94 n. 1; level, 125; composition of the ,water, 128-29, 129 n. 6; difficulty of traversing mud flats, 130, 130 n. 9, 131, 1% n. 71; descriptions of storms, 133,133~34 n. 21, 170-71, 171 n. 101; descriptions of animals, 137, 137 n. 30, 149, 149 n. 60; description of crickets, 137, 137 n. 30; description of mosquitoes, 137, 137 n. 30, 146; description of birds, 140, 140 n. 38, 169-70, 169-70 n. 98, 181 n. 127; descriptions of bathing in 141-43, 141 n. 45; description of snakes, 143, 143 n. 47; plant life, 146, 146 n. 55, 162, 162 n. 83, 186, 186 n. 140, 190, 190 n. 151, 190 n. 153; hydrocarbons, 149, 149 n. 59; remnant of Lake Bonneville, 150, 150 n. 63; description of gnats, 151, 151 n. 65; description of ecosystem, 185 n. 138; chaining completed, 189, 189 n. 150; see also Antelope Island; Bonne- ville Lake; Cub Island; Fremont Island; Gunnison Island; Promontory Moun- tains; Promontory Peninsula; S tansbury Island; S tansbury Survey Grist, F. R., official Survey, 123 artist of Stansbury Gunnison Island, description, 152, 152 n. 66, 153-54, 153 n. 69, 169-70, 169-70 n. 98,172; see also Great Salt Lake Gunnison, John Williams, biographical information, 114, 194; member of Stans- bury Survey, 114; left Fort Leavenworth, 115; ill, 115; reached Fort Bridger, 116; took main party from Fort Bridger to Salt Lake City by Mormon Road, 116; attitude toward Mormons, 117, 123; surveyed Jordan River and Utah Valley, 117, 121-22; established astronomical base along south shore of Great Salt Lake, 121; wrote book on the Mormons, 123; description of storm on Great Salt Lake, 133, 133-34 n. 21; relationship with fellow workers on Stansbury Survey, 135, 135 n. 23; sent to survey eastern and southern sides of Great Salt Lake, 136 n. 26; conditions of surveying party, 182 n. 128; killed by Indians, 194 H Hambleton, Madison D., cleared of murder of John M. Vaughn, 108 n. 18 Handle, J., see Hendal, J. Hastings, Lansford W., cutoff, 164-65 n. 87 Hendal, J., member of Colony Guard, 42 n. 2; reached California, 70 n. 8 Higbee, Isaac, leader of Fort Utah settle- ment, 78 n. 18 Higbee, John S., leader of Fort Utah settle- ment, 78 n. 18 Higbee, Joseph, killed in battle with Indians, 79 n. 19 Hot Springs, see Beck's Hot Springs Howland, George M., United States Army lieutenant assisted Mormons in killing Indians, 79 n. 19, 123; detached from command at Cantonment Loring to help Stansbury Survey, 118; reported for duty on Stansbury Survey, 122 Hudson, Benjamin (father of John Hudson), born, xiii; married, xiii; printer and bookseller, newspaper proprietor, xiii; children, xiv Hudson, John, with Howard Stansbury Survey, xi, xvi, 80, 127, 135, 135 n. 25, 147, 147 n. 56; description of letters, sketches, and journal, xi-xii; born, xiv, 42, 42 n. 3; schooling, xiv; remained in Salt Lake City, xv, 69-70; joined gold rush, xv; left England, xv; activities in Great Basin, xv-xvi; died, xvi, 107; description of sea voyage, 3-9; arrived in New York City, 9; description of Thanksgiving holiday, 20-23; financial conditions, 27-28, 28 n. 34; member of Colony Guard, 34, 42 n. 2; treasurer and chaplain of Colony Guard, 34, 43, 45, 48; daguerreotype, 34-35, 34 n. 40, 38; intention of becoming American citizen, 43; letters published, 43-44 n. 5; attitude toward Colony Guard, 41-43, 46-47; attitude toward slavery, 55; ill, 56-57, 67; sketches, 64 n. 1; befriended by William Warren Major, 68; opinion of Mormons, 68, 101; accepted position as school teacher, 70-71, 71 n. 9; received Patriarchal Blessing, 71 n. 9; Mormon 223 |
