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 * 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.
 * origin of the name, 197, note.
 * Adoption among the North American Indians, 117.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * in the American Sahara, 64.
 * worship of the American Indians, 103.
 * Animals and vegetables, confusing trivial names for, in America, 142, note.
 * Animals, Indian signs for, 126.
 * of the Uinta Hills, 178.
 * small quantity of food required to fatten, in the Rocky Mountains and in Somali-land, 140.
 * Animals, wild, at Rocky Bridge, 159.
 * in the wooded heights of the Wind-River Mountains, 165.
 * Animals, wild, of the Black Hills, 142.
 * of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153.
 * of Utah Territory, 279.
 * Antelope at Rocky Ridge, 159.
 * its habitat, 67.
 * its meat, 67.
 * or Church Island, 194, 323, 327.
 * Springs, 464, 465.
 * the (Antelocapra Americana), 67.
 * Ant-hills, 196.
 * Apadomey female warriors, 113.
 * Arapaho, or Dirty-Nose Indians, 142, 143.
 * loose conduct of, 117.
 * sign of the tribe of, 123, 124.
 * their lodges, 86.
 * their personal appearance, 143, 144.
 * 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.
 * ignorance of the lower grades of English of the use of, 174.
 * Army of the United States, remarks on the, 336.
 * 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.
 * General Harney's defeat of the Brûlé Sioux at, 70, 89.
 * Ash-Hollow Creek, 70.
 * Assiniboin Indians, 97.
 * their present habitat, 100.
 * 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.
 * valley of, 189.
 * Fork, 189.
 * station at, 189.
 * "Bear's Rib," Mato Chigukesa, made chief of the Brûlé Sioux, 89.
 * Bear Bay, 182.
 * flesh of the, as food, 231.
 * in Cotton-wood Kanyon, 347.
 * of the Black Hills, 142.
 * River, 182, 183, 325.
 * coal found on the banks of, 182.
 * Mountains, 174.
 * Springs, in Utah Territory, 274.
 * the grizzly, 192.
 * traps, 347.
 * Beavers in the torrent-bed of Echo Kanyon, 187.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * pass of the, 190, 191.
 * Bill of fare at a supper in Great Salt Lake City, 232.
 * Birds near Fort Kearney, 48.
 * of Utah Territory, 280.
 * wild, of the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, 165.
 * Bishops, the Mormon, 400.
 * Bison Americanus. See Buffalo.