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* Diseases to which the Indians are liable, 278.
 * "Divide," the, between the Green River and Black's Fork, 174.
 * "Divide," the, between the Little Blue and Platte Rivers, 38.
 * "Divide," the, between the Platte and Sweet-water 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 seq.
 * Dragon-fly, or devil's darning-needle, 60.
 * Dress, Indian, 57, 59.
 * of the Mormon fair sex, 227.
 * Drivers of mail-coaches, their immorality, 5.
 * 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.
 * of Utah, 276, 450, 451.
 * 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.
 * Station, 187.
 * the Mormons' breastworks in, 187.
 * vegetation of, 187.
 * Education in Deserét and England compared, 545.
 * in Great Salt Lake City, 422, 423, 425.
 * Egan, Major Howard, 453.
 * Egan's Creek, 183.
 * Springs, 454, 455.
 * Station, 467.
 * Eggs and bacon, a constant dish in the West, 38.
 * Eight-mile-Spring Kanyon, 465.
 * 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.
 * Mormon, arrival of, at Great Salt Lake City, 225–6.
 * "Emigration Road" in Kansas, 16,
 * Emigration Kanyon, 193.
 * Mormon system of, 295.
 * statistics of, 297.
 * Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220.
 * 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.
 * "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, 348.
 * Ferris, B.J. on his work on Mormonism, 206, note.
 * Mrs., her work on "The Mormons at Home," 206, 207, note.
 * Ferry, the Lower, over the Platte, 140.
 * Fête at Great Salt Lake City, account of a, 230–2.
 * Fetichism of the North American Indians, 107.
 * "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.
 * of the Wasach Lakes, 348.
 * of Utah Lake, 334.
 * Springs, 460,
 * 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, 48, 53.
 * Folles Avoines Indians, 96, note.
 * Food prejudices, 65.
 * Foot of Ridge Station, near the Sweetwater, 159.
 * Fort Bridger, 178.
 * Churchill, 493, 494.
 * Forts, frontier, a camel corps proposed for, 46.
 * of the United States described, 41, 42.
 * remarks on the army system of outposts in the United States, 43, 44.
 * Fox-River Indians, their tents, 86.
 * the, or Rivière des Puantes, 19.
 * Foxes in Echo Kanyon, 187.
 * Frémont, Colonel, his exploration of the Rocky Mountains, 164.
 * Frémont, Colonel, his traveling proprieties, 149.
 * Island, 328.
 * Peak, in the Rocky Mountains, 155, 161.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * of Church Butte, 176.
 * of Echo Kanyon, 184.
 * of the banks of the Platte at Snow Creek, 141.
 * Geological formation of the Black Hills, 134.
 * of the gold diggings, 484.
 * of the Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, 72.
 * Geological formation of the Rattlesnake Hills, 153.
 * 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.
 * "Gift, an Indian," the proverb, 103.
 * Gilston, Jim, of Illinois, 456.
 * Girls, Indian, 59.
 * Gold found in the Wind-River Mountains, 165.
 * found in Utah Territory, 251.
 * 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, 264.
 * Grand Island, in the Platte River. 39.
 * River, Neosho, or White Water, the Osages settled on the, 34.