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* Bissonette, M., the Creole, 139.
 * Blackfeet, or Sisahapa Indians, 98.
 * sign of the tribe of, 124.
 * their friendliness to whites, 165.
 * their lodges, 86.
 * Black Hills, the, 91.
 * the, animals to which they afford shelter, 142.
 * Black Hills, geography of the, 134.
 * Black Rock, near Great Salt Lake, 324,
 * view from the, 330.
 * Black's Fork River, 174, 176.
 * vegetation of, 177, 178.
 * Bloomer dress, 91, 92.
 * Blue River, Big, 29.
 * Little, 38.
 * 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.
 * on Mormonism, list of, 203, note.
 * Botany of Utah Territory, 280.
 * Boulders, huge natural pile of, Brigham's Peak, 136.
 * in Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
 * Bow and arrow of the North American Indian, 119.
 * Bowery, the, in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
 * 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.
 * Fort, 178.
 * Range of the Uinta Hills, 176.
 * Bridle and bit used on the prairies, 27.
 * Brigham's Kanyon, 194, 235.
 * Peak, 136.
 * 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.
 * other, 160, note.
 * Buffalo, absence of the, on the Grand Prairie, 18.
 * annual destruction of, 50.
 * berry, the, cultivated in Great Salt Lake City, 170, note.
 * Buffalo, Britishers and buffalo shooting, 73.
 * extinct westward of the Rocky Mountains, 50.
 * Buffalo, former and present number of, 50.
 * grass, 51.
 * herds of, 48.
 * Indian mode of hunting it, 51, 52.
 * Indian mode of preparing the skins of, 52.
 * its habits, 51.
 * number of robes purchased by the several companies, 49, note.
 * Buffalo, three great families of, 50.
 * uses to which it is put, 51, 52.
 * wild, as compared with tame meat, 49.
 * Bullock, W.T., the Mormon, 419.
 * Bunch-grass, 139.
 * its geographical limits, 139.
 * proposed acclimatization of, 140.
 * Bundling among the North American Indians, 116.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * slope and surface of the land of, 8.
 * 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,
 * hatred of the Mormons expressed at, 339.
 * Camp Floyd, position of the camp, 446.
 * second visit to, 444
 * the sick certificate, 342.
 * trip to, 331.
 * 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.
 * Island, 327.
 * Carson City, 494, 496.
 * lawless violence of, 288.
 * House Station, 189.
 * Kit, the celebrated guide and Indian interpreter, 178.
 * Carson Lake, 274, 491.
 * River, 493.
 * Carter, Judge, and his store, 179.
 * Caswall, Rev. Henry, his works on Mormonism, 205, note.
 * Cattle starved in some regions, 138.
 * numbers of skeletons seen, 138,
 * Cedar Creek, 334.
 * effect of climate upon the growth of the, 41.
 * gradually diminishing, 53.
 * Island, the first, in the Missouri, 41.
 * 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.
 * their lodges, 86.
 * Cheyenne Indians, the, 99.
 * sign of their tribe, 124.
 * their chastity, 117.
 * their lodges, 86.
 * Chieftainship among the Indians, 117.
 * Children, Indian fondness for, 103.
 * Indian, 59.
 * of the Mormons, 422–3.
 * 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.