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* Mud Lake, 274.
 * Mud Spring station, 71.
 * Muddy Creek, Big, 180.
 * Muddy Creek, Little, 140, 180.
 * Muddy Creek, Little, the Canadian station-master at, 180.
 * Muddy Creek, Little, wretched station at, 140.
 * Muddy Fork, 174.
 * Mules in the West, 135.
 * Mules, obstinacy of, 14.
 * Mules, of Central America, 13, 14.
 * Mules, rate of progress of, 14.
 * Mules, recalcitrancies of, 157, 167.
 * Murder, Mormon punishment for, 426.
 * Murders in and near Great Salt Lake City, 225, 339.
 * Murders in Carson City, 225.
 * Murphy, Captain, his loyalty, 181.
 * Muskrat Station, 159.
 * Muskrat the, 159, note.
 * Mustang of the Black Hills, 142.
 * Mustang the, or prairie pony, 68, note.
 * Myers, Mr., the Mormon of Bear-River Valley, 182.
 * Mysteries of Endowment House in Great Salt Lake City, 220.


 * Names, Indian, 115.
 * Names, of the Mormons, 227.
 * Nauvoo Legion, account of the, 354-5.
 * Nauvoo Legion, story of two warriors of the, 187.
 * Nebraska, meaning of the word, 40.
 * Nebraska River. See Platte, La Grande.
 * Nebraska, Southern, rainy season in, 16.
 * Needle Rocks, 183.
 * Nemehaw Creek, Big, 21.
 * Neophytes, Mormon, behavior of the, 228-9.
 * Newspapers in Great Salt Lake City, 255.
 * Nicollet Lake, 274.
 * Niobrara, or Eau qui court River, 40, 72.
 * Nullah. See Arroyo.


 * Oats, wild (Avena fatua), of the Pacific water-shed, 139.
 * "Obelisks, the," 188.
 * O'Fallon's Bluffs, 48, 53.
 * Officials, federal, behavior in Great Salt Lake City of the, 421.
 * Ojibwa Indians, habitat of the, 100, 101.
 * Ojibwa, the name, 100, note.
 * Ogalala, or Okandanda Indians, habitat of the, 98.
 * Ogalala, village of the, 85.
 * Omaha Creek, or Little Punkin, 71.
 * Onions, wild, of the valley of the Little Blue River, 31.
 * Oohenonpa Indians, habitat and numbers of the, 98.
 * Ophthalmia in Utah Territory, 278.
 * Opinion, public, in Great Salt Lake City, 197.
 * Oquirrh Mountains, 191, 194, 322.
 * Oregon, boundary-stone between it and Utah, 169.
 * Oregon, establishment of the mail-coach route from Missouri to, 4.
 * Oregon, origin of the name, 169, note.
 * Ormsby, Mayor, his death, 479.
 * Osages, account of the tribe of the, 34.
 * Osages, cession of the territory of the, 34.
 * Osages, mode of building the lodges of the, 85.
 * Ottagamies, the Indian tribe of, 20, note.
 * Outfit, the traveler's, 9.
 * Outposts, remarks on the United States army system of, 43, 44.
 * Owl, the burrowing (Strix cunicularia), 66.
 * Oxen shod at Great Salt Lake City, 270.
 * Ox-riding, 24, note.


 * Pabakse, or Cut-Head Indians, 97.
 * Pacific Creek, 167.
 * Pacific Railroad, difficulties of a, 277.
 * Pacific Railroad, routes proposed for a, 3.
 * Pacific Springs, 163.
 * Pacific Springs, station at, 163, 166.
 * Padouca River, 60, 63.
 * Pantomime, Indian, or speaking with the fingers, 123.
 * Pantomime, preliminary signs for the traveler, 124.
 * Pantomime, signs of some of the Indian tribes, 123.
 * Pantomime, various other signs, 124-30.
 * Panama, 501.
 * Parley's Kanyon, 195, 344.
 * Patriarch, rank of, in the Mormon hierarchy, 400.
 * Pawnee Indians, account of the, 36.
 * Pawnee Indians, principal sub-tribes of the, 37.
 * Pawnee Indians, readiness of the, to cut off a single traveler, 138.
 * Pawnee Indians, sign of the tribe of the, 123.
 * Peddlers, licensed and unlicensed, 81.
 * Penitentiary, the, of Great Salt Lake City, 271.
 * Phelps, Judge and Apostle, his "Sermon on the Mount," 196, note.
 * Phelps, Judge and Apostle, visit to, 253.
 * Pigeons a constant dish in Italy, 38.
 * "Pike's Peakers" on the road, 60.
 * Pine-tree Stream, 174.
 * Pine Valley, 480.
 * Piñon-tree, fruit of the, 466.
 * Piñon-tree (P. monophyllus) of the West, 285.
 * Pipes of the Côteau des Prairies, 88.
 * "Pitch-holes or chuck-holes" of the prairies, 18.
 * Placerville City, 499.
 * Platte Bridge, delicious climate of, 137.
 * Platte, Fort, 90.
 * Platte River, a dust storm in the valley of the, 75.
 * Platte River, appearance of the, at Platte Bridge, 136.
 * Platte River, beauty of the banks of the, 39.
 * Platte River, character of the soil beyond the immediate banks of the, 41.
 * Platte River, coal found on the banks of the, 141.
 * Platte River, division of the, into the northern and southern streams, 60.
 * Platte River, farewell to the, 146.
 * Platte River, fording the, 63.
 * Platte River, La Grande, or Nebraska, 39.
 * Platte River, Lower Ferry over the, 140.
 * Platte River, noxious exhalations from the, 48.
 * Platte River, shallowness of the, 40.
 * Platte River, tender adieux at the upper crossing of the, 62.
 * Platte River, timber on the banks of the, 40, 41.
 * Platte River, wild garden on the shores of the, 41.
 * Pleasant Valley, 461.
 * Plum Creek, 48.
 * Plum Creek Ranche, soil about, 48.
 * Poetry of the Sioux Indians, 122.
 * Point Look-out, 454.
 * Poison Springs, 461.
 * Poisons, animal and vegetable, of the Prairie Indians, 120.
 * Polar plant, the, 48.
 * Police, private, of Mormon life, 224.
 * Police, public, of Great Salt Lake City, 224.
 * Polygamy among the Mormons, 373, 426.
 * Polygamy, justification of, 384.
 * Polygamy, Mrs. Pratt's letter on, 433, et seq.
 * Polygamy, results of, 428.
 * Polygamy, revelation to Joseph Smith on, 373.
 * Polygamy, views of women respecting, 431.
 * Pony Express, the, 28, note.
 * Pony Express, the, on the road, 169.
 * Pony Express, postage by the, 29.
 * Pony Express, riders of the, 29.
 * Population of Utah Territory, 294.
 * Population of Utah Territory, excess of females, 301.
 * Populus tremuloides, the, 180.
 * Postal system of the United States, evils of the contract system, 172, 173, note.
 * Powder River, Indians of the, 97.
 * Prairie, absence of animal life on the, 18.
 * Prairie, an evening in the, 38.
 * Prairie compass, the, 48.
 * Prairie dog, the (Cynomys Ludovicianus), 66.
 * Prairie dog, his associates, reptiles, birds, and beasts, 66.
 * Prairie-dog village, 65.