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* United States, proposal for establishing a camel corps in the, 46.
 * United States, remarks on the army system of outposts in the, 43, 44.
 * Utah Indians, lodges of the, 86.
 * Utah Lake, or Sweetwater Reservoir, 274, 332, 444, 446.
 * Utah Territory, bad effects of conflicting judiciaries in, 312.
 * Utah Territory, boundaries of, 273.
 * Utah Territory, cities and counties of, 291–3.
 * Utah Territory, climate of, 275.
 * Utah Territory, configuration of the country, 273.
 * Utah Territory, diseases in, 278.
 * Utah Territory, geography of, 273.
 * Utah Territory, geology of, 281.
 * Utah Territory, grazing in, 284.
 * Utah Territory, Indians of, 473.
 * Utah Territory, lakes of, 274.
 * Utah Territory, Legislative Assembly of, 310.
 * Utah Territory, minerals of, 281.
 * Utah Territory, Mormon government in, 301.
 * Utah Territory, origin of the name, 272.
 * Utah Territory, population of, 294.
 * Utah Territory, present state of agriculture in, 285.
 * Utah Territory, principal value of, 287.
 * Utah Territory, proposed route to, 3.
 * Utah Territory, rights of the citizens of, 311.
 * Utah Territory, scourges of crickets and grasshoppers in, 284.
 * Utah Territory, singular formation of the mountains of, 275.
 * Utah Territory, soil of, 283.
 * Utah Territory, springs of, 274.
 * Utah Territory, the Great Desert of, 455.
 * Utah Territory, the Indian bureau of, 476.
 * Utah Territory, the past of Mormonland, 288.
 * Utah Territory, United States officials in, 309–10.
 * Utah Territory, want of timber in, 284–5.
 * Utah Territory, wild animals of, 279.


 * Valley Home, in Kansas, 19.
 * "Valley Tan," origin of the name, 170, and note.
 * Vegetables grown in Great Salt Lake Valley, 287.
 * Vegetation at Black Fork, 176, 177–8.
 * Vegetation at Quaking-Asp Hill, 181.
 * Vegetation of Big Kanyon, 192, 193.
 * Vegetation of Big Mountain, 190.
 * Vegetation of Big Sandy Creek, 167, 169.
 * Vegetation of Great Cotton-wood Kanyon, 346.
 * Vegetation of Kansas, 17.
 * Vegetation of Little Blue River, 31.
 * Vegetation of the banks of La Grande Platte River, 41, 48, 52, 53.
 * Vegetation of the valleys of the Black Hills, 134.
 * Vegetation of the Wind-River Mountains, 163.
 * Veranda, a model, 53.
 * Vermilion Creek, 27.
 * Viburnum dentatum, 119.
 * Villages, Indian, 86.
 * Violin, Mormon fondness for the, 177.


 * Waddington, Mr., the Mormon, 463.
 * Wágáhongopá, or Glistening Gravel Water, 167.
 * Wagon trains of the Great American Sahara, 22.
 * Wagons, various uses of the, of the prairies, 71.
 * Wagons, price of the, called ambulances, 73 note.
 * Wahpekute Indians, habitat of the, 96.
 * Wahpetonwan Indians, habitat of the, 96.
 * Wakoes, tents of the, 85.
 * Walker's Lake, 274.
 * Wallace, Mr., at the Bowery, 260.
 * Walls, the great, of Great Salt Lake City, 197.
 * Walnut Creek, 21.
 * Walnut Creek, prairie storm at, 21.
 * War-parties among the Indians, 143.
 * War-party, return home of a, 144.
 * Ward, Mrs. Maria, her work on Mormonism, 206, note.
 * Ward, W., the Mormon sculptor and apostate, 246.
 * Wards into which Great Salt Lake City is divided, 217.
 * Ward's Station, or the "Central Star," 91.
 * Warm Springs, 158.
 * Warm Springs, barren country beyond, 158.
 * Warren, Lieutenant Gouverneur K., report of, on Nebraska quoted, 7.
 * Warriors, Indian, 57.
 * Wasach Mountains, 189, 195.
 * Wasach Mountains, eternal snow of the, 323.
 * Washiki, the Shoshonee chief, 165.
 * Washington County, Utah Territory, description of, 292, note.
 * Water communication, idea of, between the Missouri and the Columbia Rivers, 162, 163, note.
 * Water, none in the First Desert, 167.
 * Water, scarcity of, on the counterslope of the Rocky Mountains, 166.
 * Water, supply of, in Great Salt Lake City, 216.
 * Wazikute Indians, 97.
 * Weapons necessary to the Western traveler, 9.
 * Weapons of the North American Indians, 57, 119, 120.
 * Weber River, 182.
 * Weber River, head and course of the, 188, 325.
 * Weber River, rain-storms and cold winds of, 188.
 * Weber River, Station, 188.
 * Weber River, tributaries of the, 189.
 * Weber River, valley of the, 188.
 * Weed-prairie, the, 48.
 * Wells, General, the Mormon president, account of, 241, 354.
 * Western man's home, description of a, 468–9.
 * Whisky a favorite with the wagon drivers, 24.
 * Whisky "Valley Tan," 170.
 * White-Earth River, or Mankizitah, 72.
 * White Knife Indians, 481–2.
 * White Mountains, 450.
 * "White Savages" of the West, 173, and note.
 * Wichiyela, or First-Nation Indians, 97.
 * Wigwams, huts, or cabins of the Eastern American Indians, 86, note.
 * Wilderness, the American, 63.
 * Wilderness, the American, animal life in, 64.
 * Willow Creek, 161.
 * Willow Creek, a little war at, 461.
 * Willow Creek, Canadian settlers at, 161.
 * Willow Creek, station at, 461.
 * Willow Island Ranch, 49.
 * Willow Springs Station, 147.
 * Willow, the red, the bark of, smoked, 111.
 * Wind, alternate hot and cold puffs of, in the prairies, 79.
 * Wind River, fountain-head of the, 162.
 * Wind River, Mountains, 162, 163, 164.
 * Wind River, Mountains, evening view of the, 164.
 * Wind River, Mountains, game in the, 68.
 * Wind River, Mountains, gold found in the, 165.
 * Wind River, Mountains, morning in the, 166.
 * Wind River, Mountains, wild animals of the wooded heights, 165.
 * Winds, cold, of Weber-River Station, 188.
 * Wind-storms of the South Pass, 165.
 * Wind, west, almost invariable at the South Pass, 163.
 * Winnebagoes, Winnipegs, or Ochangras, Indian tribe of the, 20, note.
 * Winnebagoes, their tents, 86.
 * Winnipeg Lake, Indians on, 100.
 * Witchetaws, tents of the, 85.
 * Wright, Mose, 472–3, 481–2.
 * Wolves at Rocky Bridge Station, 160, 161.
 * Wolves, near Black's Fork, 176.
 * Wolves, the prairie, 30.
 * Women, excess of the female over the male population in Utah
 * Territory, 301.
 * Women, house of the wives of the Prophet in Great Salt Lake City, 246.
 * Women, Indian, 59, 106.
 * Women, Indian names of, 115.
 * Women, marriage among the North American Indians, 116.
 * Women, Mormon marriage, 427, 432.
 * Women, Mormon, their polygamy, 431.