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Show INDEX. 563 Climate of Platte Bridge, 137. " of the country near Fort Bridger, 179,180. " 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. " slow rate of traveling, 5. " the "Concord coach," 12. Coal found on the banks of the Bear and Weber Rivers, and at Silver Creek, 182. Coal in Nebraska, 141. " in Utah Territory, 281. " near Sulphur Creek, 182. 44 on the banks of the Platte River, 141. Cold Springs, in Kansas, 18. " " squatter life at, 19. " " 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. u " 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 Deseret, 289, note. Cookery, dirty, of Indian squaws, 80. " 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. 44 Kanyon, Great, 343. 41 " " celebration of Mormon Independence Day at, 340, jwte. Cotton-wood Kanyon, Great, timber of, 284, 285. " " " visit to, 346. " Lake, Great, 347. " Station, in Nebraska, 30, 49. 44 tree, the, or Alamo, 32. 41 " 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. 44 " description of it, 72. 44 in Great Salt Lake City, 417. 44 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. 44 at Rocky-Bridge Station, 160,161. 44 in Echo Kanyon, 188. 44 near Black's Fork, 176. Cree Indians, their habitat, 100. Creek, Ash-Hollow, 70. 44 Battle, 447. 14 Bauchmin's, 189,190. 44 Box-Elder, 136. 14 Cedar, 334 44 Cotton-wood, 30. 44 . Deer, 138. 44 Dry, 483. 44 Egan's, 183. 44 Grasshopper, 21. ( t Horse, 79. 44 Horseshoe, 165. 14 Kanyon, Big, 191. " » East, 189. " Kiowa, Little, 79. 44 La Bonte, 135. Creek, Meadow, 451. Mill, 195. Muddy, Little, 140. Nemehaw, Big, 21. Omaha, or Little Punkin, 71. Pacific, 166. Plum, 48. Quaking Asp, 161. Sandy, 71. 44 Big, 167. 44 Little, 167. Sheawit, 482. Shell, 465, 466. Silver, 182. Smith's, 486. Snow, 140. Strawberry, 161. Sulphur, 181. Thirty-two-mile, 38. Turkey, 30. Vermilion, 27. Walnut, 21. Willow, 161,461. 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. meaning of the name, 95.. Dana, Lieutenant, compagnon de voyage, 8, Dancing, Mormon fondness for, 230. Danite band, account of the, 859. 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. " Station, 463. 44 Valley, 463. Deer Creek, 13S. " " establishment at, 139. ' ' kinds of, found in the regions east of the Rocky Mountains, 68. Delaware Indians, account of the, 37. " " their lodges, 86. Denmark Ward in Great Salt Lake City, 198. Denver City, lawless violence of, 288. Deseret, agricultural society of, 265. " alphabet, the, 420. " Store, in Great Salt Lake City, 249. 44 the land of the honey-bee, 163. Deseret News," account of the, 255. Desert, fertility of its eastern and westernfrontiers,7. 44 , from Fort Kearney to the base of the Rocky Mountains, 6. Desert mostly uninhabited, 7. the First, 167. the Great, of Utah Territory, 455, 458. Des Moines River, Indians west of the, 96. Devil's Backbone, the, 147. darning-needle, or dragon fly, 60. Gate, the celebrated kanyon of the, 151. Hole, the, 458, 459. Lake, Indians of, 97. Post-office, the, 154 Diamond Springs, 60, 480. " " tragedy at, 60. Diseases of Utah Territory, 278. |