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Show 564 INDEX. Diseases to which the Indians are liable, 278. 44 Divide," the, between the Green River and Black's Fork, 174. 44 Divide," the, between the Little Blue and Platte RiverB, 3S. . 44 Divide," the, between the Platte and Sweet-wa-ter 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 eeq. Dragon-fly, or devil's darning-needle, 60. Dress, Indian, 57,59. 44 of the Mormon fair sex, 227. Drivers of mail-coaches, their immorality, 5, 44 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. 44 of Utah, 276, 450,451. 44 on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 168. East Kanyon Creek, 189. Eau qui court, or Niobrara River, 40,72, Echo Kanyon, 184, " " beavers in the torrent-bed of, 187. 44 " Station, 187. 44 " the Mormons'breastworks in, 187. 44 " vegetation of, 187. Education in Deseret and England compared, 545, 44 in Great Salt Lake City, 422, 423,425. Egan, Major Howard, 453. Egan's Creek, 183. " Springs, 454,455. 44 Station, 467. Eggs and bacon, a constant dish in the West, 38. Eight-mile-Spring Kanyon, 465. 44 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. 44 Mormon, arrival of, at Great Salt Lake City, 225-6. 44 Emigration Road" in Kansas, 16. Emigration Kanyon, 193. 44 Mormon system of, 295. 44 statistics of, 297. Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220. 44 " 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. 14 Eye-opener," an, 52. Faces, Indian, 105,106. Faith, articles of the Mormon, 387, et seq. Farms, Indian, 477. Farriery of the Indians, 119. Febrile affections in Great Salt Lake City, 279. Feet of the Indians, 104 Fences, " snake," of the West, 188. Feramorz, Colonel, 343. Ferris, B. J., MB work on Mormonism, 206, note. 44 Mrs., her work on " The Mormons atHome," 206,207, note. Ferry, the Lower, over the Platte, 140. Fete at Great Salt Lake City, account of a, 230-2. FetichiBm of the North American Indians, 107. 44 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. u of the Wasach Lakes, 348. 44 of Utah Lake, 334 44 Springs, 460. 44 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, 4S, 53. ' Folles Avoines Indians, 96, note. Food prejudices, 65. Foot of Ridge Station, near the Sweetwater, 159 Fort Bridger, 178. 44 Churchill, 493,494 Forts, frontier, a camel corp3 proposed for, 46. 14 " of the United StateB described, 41,42. " " remarks on the army system of outposts in the United States, 43,44 Fox-River Indians, their tents, 86. 44 the, or Riviere des Puantes, 19. Foxes in Echo Kanyon, 187. Freniont, Colonel, his exploration of the Rocky Mountains, 164 Fremont, Colonel, his traveling proprieties, 149. Island, 328. Peak, in the Rocky Mountains, 153,161. 14 its height above sea-level, 164. Slough, 53. Springs, station at, 53. " the model veranda at, 53. Frogtown, or Fairfield, 335. Fruit in the gardens of the Prophet, 269. 44 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. 44 " of Church Butte, 176. 14 " of Echo Kanyon, 164. 44 " of the banks of the Platte at Snow Creek, 141. Geological formation of the Black Hills, 134. 41 " of the gold diggings, 484 44 " of the Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, 72. Geological formation of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153. 44 " of the valley of the Green River, 169. Geological formation of Utah Territory, 194. " " westward of the fort, 91. Germans in the prairies, their behavior, 62. Gibraltar Gate, 488. 44 Gift, an Indian," the proverb, 103. Gilston, Jim, of Illinois, 456. Girls, Indian, 69. Gold found in the Wind-River Mountains, 165. 44 found in Utah Territory, 2S1. 14 mines near the Great Salt Lake City, 270, 271. Golden Pass of Emigration Kanyon, 193. Gospel, grotesque accounts of the manner in which the Indians of old received the, 109. Government of the Mormons, 301. Grain, quantity produced in the Valley of Great Salt Lake, 284 Grand Island, in the Platte River, 39. " River, Neosho, or White Water, the Osages settled on the, 34 |