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* Kanyon Creek, Big, 191.
 * station at, 191.
 * near Great Salt Lake City, purity of the water of the, 332.
 * Kanyon, the Devil's Gate, 151.
 * Kanyons, stupendous, of Northern Mexico, 139, note.
 * Kanyons, the, of America, 139, note.
 * Kearney, Fort, 41.
 * longitude of, 6.
 * Kelly, W., Esq., J.P., his chapters on Mormonism, 204, note.
 * "Keening" the dead practiced among the Indians, 122.
 * Kennedy, the Ras Kafilah, 455.
 * Kennedy's Hole, 460.
 * Kennekuk, in Kansas, halt at, 19.
 * Kickapoo Indians, description of the, 20.
 * mode of building the tents of the, 85.
 * Kickapoo Indians, strength of the tribe of, 20.
 * the, 19.
 * Kimball, Heber C., his address in the Bowery, 262.
 * the president, account of, 241.
 * Kinnikinik smoked by the American Indian, 111.
 * the, 31.
 * Kiowa Creek, Little, 79.
 * Indians, lodges of the, 86.
 * or Prairie-men, sign of the tribe of the, 124.
 * Kisiskadjiwan River, Indians on the, 100.
 * Kit, the traveler's, 9.
 * Kiyuksa, or breakers of law, Indians, 97.
 * Kleptomania of the Indians, 60.
 * of the Sioux, 102, 103.


 * La Bonté Creek, 135.
 * "Ladies" in the Prairies, 91, 92.
 * Lake Alkali, 153.
 * Carson, 274, 491.
 * Cotton-wood, Great, 347.
 * Devil's, 97.
 * Great Salt, 194, 322, 323.
 * Little Salt, 274.
 * Miniswakan, 100.
 * Mono, 274.
 * Mud, 274
 * Nicollet, 274.
 * of the Hot Springs, 195.
 * of the Wasach Mountains, 347.
 * of the Woods, 100.
 * Pyramid, 274.
 * qui Parle, 96.
 * Saleratus, 147.
 * Stone, 96.
 * Traverse, 96.
 * Utah, or Sweet-water Reservoir, 274, 382, 446.
 * Lake, Walker's, 274.
 * Winnipeg, 100.
 * Lakes, Three, 161.
 * Lance, the, of the North American Indian, 119.
 * Land-tenure of the Mormons, 290.
 * Lander's Cut-off, 158.
 * Language, its peculiarities, 121.
 * men's first and progressive steps in, 121.
 * Language, the, of the Sioux, 120.
 * the pantomime of the Indians, or sign-system of, 123.
 * Languages of the Northeastern Indians, 96, note.
 * Laramie City, 88.
 * prices of skins at, 88.
 * Fort, climate and soil at, 90.
 * formerly Fort John, 90.
 * longitude of, 6.
 * vegetation of the slopes west of, 7.
 * Hills, geography of the, 134.
 * Peak, 79.
 * Laramie's Fork, 90.
 * Lasso, the, 68.
 * Last-Timber Station, 71, note.
 * Lawrence Fork, 71.
 * origin of the name, 72.
 * Leadplant (Amorphe canescens), the, of the American wilderness, 64.
 * Leaf-shooter Indians, 96.
 * Leather manufactured at Great Salt Lake City, 344,
 * Leeches, American, 466–7.
 * Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory, 310.
 * Lehi City, 447.
 * Liberty-poles in the United States, 251.
 * Library, public, of Great Salt Lake City, 235.
 * Lightning-bug, or fire-fly, 60.
 * Lignite in Nebraska, 141.
 * Lion House in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
 * the mountain, or cougar, 153, and note.
 * Litters, Indian, 58.
 * Little Mountain, 192.
 * Mr., his tannery, 344,
 * Locknan's Station, 21.
 * vegetation of, 21.
 * Lodge-Pole Creek, or Fork, 64.
 * Station, 66.
 * squalor and wretchedness of, 66.
 * London, Mormon meeting-houses in and about, 301, note.
 * Long-chin, the Indian murderer, 85.
 * Valley, 471
 * Look-out Fort, 97.
 * Louis, St., altitude and temperature of, 159.
 * Loup Fork, ferry across, 71, note.
 * woe Lieutenant W.F., his proprieties of travel, 50, 66.
 * Lynn, Catharine Lewis, her work on Mormonism, 206, note.


 * Macarthy, Mr., his establishment, 170, 172.
 * his rough-and-tumble, 183,
 * of Green-River Station, 170.
 * Mail-coach route from Missouri to California and Oregon, 4
 * Mail-coach, slow rate of traveling, 5.
 * Main or Whisky Street, in Great Salt Lake City, 217
 * Maize, question as to its being indigenous to America, 110, note.
 * Majors, Mr. Alexander, his efforts to reform the morals of his mail drivers, 5.
 * Mankizitah, or White-Earth River, 72.
 * Manna in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
 * Manufacturers in Utah Territory, 317–20.
 * Marcy, Major, 73.
 * his "Prairie Traveler" quoted, 4.
 * Market-place, absence of a, in Great Salt Lake City, 201.
 * Marriage among the Mormons, 427, 432.
 * among the North American Indians, 116.
 * Marshall, James W., his discovery of Californian gold, 356.
 * Martin, Michael, his store, 178.
 * Marysville, or old Palmetto City, trade of, 29.
 * Materialism, Mormon, 384.
 * Matriya, the "Scattering Bear," death of, 89.
 * Mauvaises Terres, or Bad Lands, extent of the, 72.
 * Mdewakantonwan Indians, civilization of the, 100.
 * habitat of the, 96.
 * Meadow Creek, 451, 452.
 * Medical men in Great Salt Lake City, 278.
 * Medicine-man of the Indians, 108.
 * the Indians' knowledge of, 118, 119.
 * Medicines necessary to the Western traveler, 9, 10.
 * Menomene Indians, habitat of the, 96.
 * tents of the, 86.
 * Meteorology of Utah Territory, 275.
 * Methodism, foundation of, 365.
 * Mexico, Northern, stupendous kanyons of, 139, note.
 * Mezquite, or muskeet-tree (Algarobia glandulosa), 7.
 * Midway Station, 49.
 * Military departments into which the United States are divided, 42, 43, note.
 * Militia force of Great Salt Lake City, 354–5.