Acapulco, 470
" people of, 470
" cathedral, 471
" fort, 472
Acequias, 82, 333, 487
Across the Mountains, 150
"Adios", 477
Adventure among Utes, 120-3
" " Dieganos, 351-2
" on bay of San Francisco, 294
" with grizzly bear and cubs, 459
Æsculapius, a son of, 272
Agua Frio, 287
Age of Big Trees, 463
Alkali region, 150-3
Alaska, 291
Alcatraz, 293
Alamo, 347
American eagle, 109
" Falls of Snake, 218
" a Representative, 332
Antelope, 37, 51, 149
Ancantash, 115, 125
Angel Island, 293
Anaheim, 340
Ancient ruins in Arizona, 395
Anomalies in Arizona, etc., 421
Arkansas, the, 82
" Valley of, 82-104
" Little, 104
Argonauts, Bret Harte's, 288
Army Life on Pacific Coast, 293
" -lady in Arizona, 413
" nurseries of the, 418
Arizona City, 355
Arizona generally, 372, 394
" her quicksands, 388
" her chief drawback, 414
" her anomalies, 421
" her ancient ruins, 395
" her quails and rabbits, 409-21
" her mines, 378, 399, 414
Assays, mining, 68
Astoria, 270
Asylums, Chinese, 312-14
Aspinwall, 475
Autocrat of Utah, 179
Aubrey City, 414
Average Westerner, 43, 98
" Coloradoan, 98
Aztecs, 367, 395, 406
Baker's Ranch, 55
Baille, a Mexican, 91-3
Bartering with Indians, 131-2
Baker City, 231
Banquet at Denver, 62
Bar of the Columbia, 271
Banquet at San Francisco, 304
Barbary Coast, " , 310
Bankrupt Law of Chinese, 312
Banning, Gen. P., 331-39-40
"Bed-rock", 73
Belvidere Apollo, 213
Bear River, 214
Bee-Hive House, 175
Better things ahead, 299
Bell's CaÑon, 393
Beale's Springs, 410
Beaver Lake, 415
Bear Valley, 465
Bergh, Mr. Henry, 238
"Big Injun" stories, 38
Bierstadt's skies, 105
Bitter Creek, 150
" " country, 150-3
Bill of Fare, a hard, 221
Big Trees of California, 462
Black Hawk, 64
Black-Butte Station, 152
Blue Mountains, 234-6
Blackbirds at Tucson, 376
"Black's", 445
Boys in Blue, 28
Border missionary, a, 39
" bishop, a, 59
Bogus mining companies, 69
BoisÈ, valley of, 219
BoisÈ City, 223-6
"Borers", 377
Bower Cave, 445
Bradford's Hill, 110-12
Brent, John, 84
Bridger's Pass, 150
Bridger, Jim, 158
Brigadier-Generals abundant, 173
Brigham City, 212
Breakdown, a, 241
Breakdown, another, 246
Browne, Ross J., 70, 226
Brain of the Northwest, 266
Broderick monument, 280
Building stone, fine, 27
Buchser, M., 43
Buffalo region, 50
" grass, 50
" as engineer, 52
"Bull-drivers", 54, 237
Butte region, 78
Buckskin Joe, 107
Burt, Maj., 158
Burnt River, 228
Bunch-grass, 365
Cavalier and Corncracker, 23
Camping-out, 35, 76, 88, 349, 362, 419
" near summit of Rocky Mountains, 102
CaÑon City, 81
CaÑon, Echo, 159
" of Columbia, 255
Castle Rock, 78, 256
Castle Dome, 363
Carson, Kit, (see K)
Carson City, 436
Carter, Judge, 159
Carter, Colonel, 415
Cannon, George Q., 168
Calico horses, 252
Cascade Mountains, passage of, 255
Cascades, Lower, 255
California at last, 274
" her growth, 279, 489
" wines generally, 338
" natives, 293, 328, 342
" mines, 427
" live-oaks, 426, 441
" wheat-fields, 426, 441
" wind-mills, 441
" statistics, 279, 489
Cajon Pass, 422
Calaveras Big Trees, 463
Cape St. Lucas, 469
Cactus, columnar, 368
Carissa Creek, 349
Caribbean Sea, 476
"Cavalry Gregg", 407
Cayotes, or wolves, 216
Central City and mines, 62-4
Celilo, 253
Centipedes, 417
Central Pacific Railroad, 428
" its grades, 428
" snow-sheds, 429
Central America, 432
Chicago, 23
Cherry Creek, 53, 65
Chivington massacre, 139
Church Butte, 153
Children of Brigham Young, 180
Chinaman, John, 225, 268
Change from dry to wet, 258
Churches of San Francisco, 287
Christmas in San Francisco, 292
Chinese Question, the, 300-21
" merchants, 304
" New Year, 311
" bankrupt law, 312
" temple or Josh-house, 312
" religion, 314
China's necessity America's opportunity, 315-16
Chemisal, 345
Charley, Diegano, 351
Changes of elevation, 416
Cincinnati, 23
Cisco, 428
Clear Creek, 63-64
Claims, mining, 66
Clawson, Brig.-Gen., 175
Climate of Colorado, 76, 100, 143
" Oregon and Washington., 263
" San Francisco, 281, 467
" Santa Barbara, 324, 490
" San Diego, 328
" Los Angelos, 334
" of Mexican Coast, 468
" Isthmus of Panama, 474
Cliff House and sea-lions, 295-6
"Clarke's", 461
Clarke, Galen, 461
Coming man, 70
Companies, bogus, 69
Compagnons du voyage, 33
Costly supplies, 49, 375, 407
Coal, etc., 63, 153, 229
Copper, etc., 63, 378
Colorado ores, 68
" mineral resources, 69-71
" Springs, 80
" City, 81
" farming, 82
" desert, 344-46
Coloradoan, an average, 98
Corkscrew creek, a, 87
Costello, Judge, 107
Council, Indian, 114-16
Councils of war, 160
" Clive on, 160
Cox, Jack, 132
Courts, U. S., in Utah, 193-6
Columbia River, etc., 251
" Clarke's Fork of, 251
" bar of, 271
Conner, Capt., 270-3
Commerce and wealth of San Francisco, 279, 489
Comstock Lode, 433, 492
Coin vs. Greenbacks, 290
Conclusion as to Chinese, 320
Cock-fights, 335, 471
Cottonwood CaÑon, 410
Constitution steamer, 468
Colima, 469
Costa Rica, 472
Conclusion, 477
Coulterville, 444
"Crawford's", 244
Crossing the Rocky Mountains, 84, 150
" the Blue Mountains, 234
" bar of the Columbia, 271
" Gila and Salado, 383
" Sierra Nevadas, 428, 43734
Georgetown, 71
Geiger grade, 431
Genoa, 436
Gertrude Jane, 438
Gila City, 363
" River, 364
" valley of the, 364
" Bend, 366
" freshet in, 381
Give John a chance, 317
Good grazing region, 50
Golden City, 60, 63
Golden Gate, 276
Gold mines, 66
Gold and silver, our yield of 1873, 491
Gooseberries, wild, 63
Good missionary ground, 319, 361
Gov. Low on Chinese, 318
Grasshoppers, 36
Granite Creek, 398
Grande Ronde Valley, 232
Great West, the, 22
" American Desert, 51
" Salt Lake, 209
" American Falls, 218
" Bend region, 251
Gregory Gulch, 64
" Consolidated, 66
Greenhorn River, 82
Green River, 150-3
Gregg, Gen. Irvin, 407-8
"Greasers", 470
Grizzly bear and cubs, 459
Guaymas, 378
Guatemala, 472
Gulls, 274, 468
Gulf Stream, 476
Happy Family, a, 37
Halsey, Mr. Supt., 221
Hardyville, 413
Hardy, Mr., 414
Hassayampa, 387
Hermann, 25
Hercules of the Plains, 29
Hell Gate, 253
Hell CaÑon, 405
Heller, Louis, 383
"Heathen Chinee", 301, 430
Hermitage, the, 458
Hincklin's, Zan, estate, 83-4
High Council of Mormon Church, 196-8
Homan's Park, 99
Hoosiers, 22
Holliday's Overland Stages, 41, 207
Holliday, Ben, 41, 152, 207
Holmes' One-Hoss Shay, 242, 418
Home again, 476
Honitos, 465
Hood, Mt., 256, 264, 269
Horse philosophy, 236-7
Horses, a fine team of, 234
How not to do it, 160
Huerfano River, 83
Hunt, Indian Agent, 116, 131
Hualapai Springs, 410
"Hutchings'", 449
Hydraulic mining, 427
Idaho Springs, 71
Idaho City, 224
Idaho, 223-6
" mines of, 226
" Dogberry, 226
Illinois and Indiana, 22
Indians, Apache, 401
" Arrapahoe, 54
" Cheyenne, 115, 127
" Chemehuevi, 424
" Comanche, 115, 127
" Delaware, 30
" Diegano, 350
" Hualapai, 412
" Maricopa, 369
" Mojave, 412
" Oregon, 252
" Pai-Utes, 412
" Papago, 380
" Pawnee, 38
" Pimo, 369
" Pottawatomie, 32
" Shoshone, 158
" Sioux, 55
" Umatilla, 245
" Ute, 114, 135
" Walla-Walla, 246
" Yavapai, 392
Indian corn, 27
" Point, 28
" idea of steam, 30
" " telegraph, 30
" rumors, 38, 55-7, 77
" council, 114, 116
" treaty, 113-36
" ponies, 116
" costumes, 117
" village, 118
" dogs, 118
" profanity, 119
" speeches, 127-9
" a sharp, 129
" bartering with, 131-2
" dance, 133
" squaws, 135
" generally, 135-6
" trophies, 143
" scare, 146, 419
" exploits of Apaches, 402
" their cunning, 403
" policy of Brigham Young, 212
" " our old, 370, 412
" " our true, 413
"Inside" vs. "Outside", 354
Inspiration Point, 457
Interview with Brigham Young, 176-9
" " U. S. Judge at Salt Lake, 189-98
Irish miners, 246
"Iron-clad" Christians, 289
Iron mines, 63
Irrigation, 60, 487
Isothermal lines, 263
Isthmus of Panama, 474
" " people, 475
Jackson, Gen., 29
Jack Cox, 132-3
Jack-rabbits and quail, 345
Jesus, Don, 92
Jerked beef, 118
Jewish synagogue, 286
Jews on Pacific Coast, 287
Jesuit missions, 326
Johnston, Albert Sydney, 159-60
John Day River, 254
John as a merchant, 304
" a banker, etc., 305
" an operative, 306
" a railroad builder, 307
" an actor, 308
" a gambler, 309
" a holiday keeper, 311
" a legislator, 312
" a heathen, 313-15
" give him a chance, 317
John Phoenix, 327
"Jordan is a hard road," etc., 236
Josh-house, Chinese, 312-14
Judge Costello, 107
" Gale, 59
" Lynch, 59, 62, 226
" Carter, 159
" a brave, 198
Julesburg, 49, 53
Junction City, 26
Juniper Mountain, 409
Juries, Mormon, 190
Kansas Pacific Railroad, 21
Kansas generally, 27
Kaolin, 63
"Kate," mule, 87, 112
Kaw, the, 32
Kerber's ranch, 100
Kimball, Heber C., 167-75
Kit Carson, 96-7, 114
" his services, 136
" personal appearance, 137
" adventures, 137
" Sherman on, 138
" Indians on, 138
" his opinion of Indians, 138-9
Kootenay, 252
Lawrence, 26
Landscapes, superb, 72, 84-6, 243, 446
Landscape, a tropical, 478
Laramie Plains, 148
Laclede, 152
Latrobe, 248
Lake Pond Oreille, 252
Laguna Grande, 342
Laguna, 347
Lady, an army, in Arizona, 413
La Paz, 414
Lake Tahoe, 439
Leavenworth, 25
Lead, etc., 63
Leutze's painting, 105
Leave Utah or drown, 184
Lewiston, 223
La Grande, 233
" mines near, 233
" river, 235
Leland, a, 465
Little Blue, 38
Live mining-town, 65
Lincoln on our mines, 70
Life in a stage-coach, 155-7
Lieut. Genl. Utah Militia, 173
Little Arkansas, 104
Liberals vs. Imperialists, 353
Libertad, 377
Live-oaks of California, 426, 441
Long's Peak, 75
Lost among Indians, 120-4
"Lo! the poor Indian", 55, 135
Lone Mountain Cemetery, 280, 295
Los Angelos Plains, 333, 423
" itself, 334-5
Lumber, costly, 49, 375, 407
Lynch, Judge, 59, 62, 226
Manhattanville, 32
Marysville, 34
Mantilini, Mr., 67
Machinery, mining, 67
Manitou, Col., 80
Mark Tapley's philosophy, 122
Massacre, Sand Creek., 139
MaladÉ, 215
Machado's, Ranch, SeÑor, 342
Maricopa Desert, 366
Mariposa Trail, 456
" Big Trees, 462
" itself, 464
Manzanillo, 469
McCormick, Gov., 362
McDowell Crossing, 183
"Out of the Wilderness", 424
Outside on a coach, 44
"Outfit", 72
Overland route, 35
" stages, 41, 206
Owyhee, 224
" Rapids, 253
Ox-trains, 54, 238
"Pay-ore", 66
Pay-streak, 73
"Panned-out", 73
Pacific Railroad, Union, 40, 71, 80
" Central, 428, 430
" Northern, 252
" Texas, 396
Pass, Sangre del Christo, 84-6
" Poncho, 102
Parks, Rocky Mt., 95
Parley's CaÑon, 161
Paymaster, a lucky, 227
Pasquol, old, 361
Painted Rocks, 367
Pai-Ute Hill, 417
Paradise Regained, 423
" for invalids, 491
Panama, 472
Peat, 49
Peons, Mexican, 83
Petroleum, 153
Personal appearance of Brigham Young, 178-9
Pennsylvania Dutchman, a, 39
Phosphorescent waves, 467-8
Pike's Peak, 75, 79
Pigeon English, 302
Pilot Knob, 348
Picacho, 373
Platte River, 36, 48
" Valley, 47, 49
Placer Mining, 65-66
Plains, the, 50, 52, 72, 111
" as stock-raising and dairy region, 51, 481
Placerville, 439
Poncho Pass, 102
" Creek, 103
Pocket-knives as weapons, 122
Polygamy, its workings, 192-3
" bad results generally, 203
" a barbarism, 204
" laws against, should be enforced, 204-5
Portland, 264-8
Powder River, 228
Powell, Prof., 357
Postle's ranch, 405
Pony, a plucky, 448
Porpoises, 467
Prospect Ridge, 28
"Prospecting", 66
Prairie schooners, 26, 34, 54
" chickens, 36, 53
" dogs, 37
Praying machines of Chinese, 314
"Processes," mining, 68
Process, a new, wanted, 68
Preacher, Mormon, 167
Pratt's River, 228
Price's Army, left wing of, 240, 267
Press of California, 288
Prescott Crossing, 383
" road, 385
" itself, 397
" her mining prospects, 399
" population, 400
Precious metals, our yield of for 1873, 491
Project, a California, 439
Punty, 445-8
Quartz mines, etc., 66
Quicksands of Arizona, 388
" execrable, 392
Ranchmen and their homes, 53
Ranches, 73
" in California, 293
Ranchman, a dismal, 421
Randall, Bishop, 59
Railroad, Union Pacific, 40, 71, 80
" Northern, 252
" Central, 428, 430
" Texas, 396
" across the Isthmus, 474
Rather exciting situation, 121
Rapids of the Columbia, 253
Rains and fogs, 259
Rains and winds of San Francisco, 281-2
Racing steam-ships, 322
Rattlesnakes, 417
Reception of Gen. Sherman, etc., 62
Red Rupert, 144
Regions, barren, 215, 345, 410
Representative Californians, 285
Religion in California, 287-9
Revivalist, a noted, 432
Ride by stage-coach, 44
Ride after antelope, 51
Ride by muleback, 84-7
" a rough, 220
" a fine horseback, 446
Rio Grande, 96-7
" bottoms, 96
Rio Colorado, 150, 356, 415
Rip Van Winkles, 279, 376
Rising Star Steamer, 475
River Terraces, 28
Rocky Mountains, 75, 143
" parks of, 95
Roads, mountain, 110, 439
Road-agents, 166
Robinson, Dr., murder of, 184-7
Romancing, 247
Rough stage-coaching, 437
Roses in California, 440
Rock Springs, 410
Russel's Ranch, 98
Ruby City, 224
Rule, the only safe among Indians, 394
Sacramento River, 425
" Valley, 426
" City, 440
Saratoga of Colorado, 71
Sangre del Christo, 84-6
Saddle animals, 87
San Luis Park, 96
Saw-mills, 110
Safe at last, 124
Sage-hens, 158
Salt Lake City, 164-6
" House, 164
" Theatre, 179
" audience generally, 182
" Vidette, 183
" Mormon outrages at, 183, 198
" what a U. S. Judge thinks of affairs there, 189-98
" itself, 209
(See Mormon.)
Sand Creek massacre, 139
Sand-storm, a Yuma, 358
San Francisco, 276
" her location, 277
" sand-hills, 278
" commerce, etc., 279
" climate, 281-2
" earthquakes, 283
" hotels, 283
" houses and gardens, 284
" fruits and flowers, 284
" churches, 287-8
" her Christmas and New Year, 292
" statistics, 279, 489
" Barbary Coast, 310
" Chinese, 301, 321
" sail on Bay of, 294
Santa Barbara, 324
" her climate, 490-91
San Diego, 325-9
" court-house and jail, 327
" climate, 328
" neighboring ranches, 329
" harbor, 329
San Pedro, 330
Santa Anna River, 340-1
Santa Cruz River, 372-5
San Xavier del Bac, 379
San Bernardino, 422
San Joaquin River, 444
San Mateo, 466
San JosÈ, 466
San Salvador, 472
Scare, an Indian, 146-7
Scott's Marmion, 159
Scout after Apaches, 404
Segrist, Mr., 39
SeÑors and SeÑoritas, 92
Sermons, Mormon, 169
Sea-sickness, 272
Sea-lions, 295-6
"Shanghai" fences, 36, 229
Sherman, Gen., 61, 114
" on Kit Carson, 138
" New Mexico, etc., 140-1
" personally, 142
"Shebang", 72
Sha-wa-she-wit, 125
Shauno, 125
Shingle Station, 439
Silvers, Rev. Mr., 39
Sibley tents, 55, 118
Silver-mining, 66, 432-5
Silver City, 224
Sierra Blanca, 98
" Nevadas, 427
" " summit of, 430
" " snows on, 428, 437
" " silence of, 460
" " sugar-pines of, 461
Skull Valley, 392
Smoky Hill River, 28, 50
Snowy Range, 63, 76, 105
Snow-squalls, 81, 89, 98
Snow-storm, in a, 162, 241
Snow galleries, 429
Snows on Sierra Nevadas, 428, 437
Snake River, 216
" bottoms, 217
" station, 217
" valley generally, 229
Socelito, 294
Soda Springs, Col., 80
Soda Lake, 419
Soldier, a true, 408
Something about smoking, 157
" " Vicksburg, 261-2
South Platte, 58, 65, 107
" Clear Creek, 71
" Park, Western exaggerations, 96-7
Wellington, young chief, 123-4
Weber Valley, 161
West, Bishop, 175, 211
Wells, Lt. General, 175
Wells Springs, 244
"Web-footed" children, 259
West Indies, 476
Whales, 467
Whirlwinds, 346
White Pine, 433
Whitney, Prof., 452, 456
Whittier's prophecy, 477
Wheat-fields of California, 426, 441
" yield of, 441
Wickenburg, 390
Wildcat Creek, 39
Wind-storm, a, 45
Willow Springs, 146
Wilful, John, 247
Willamette River, 266
Wilmington, etc., 331
Wilson, Don Benito, 336
" his noble ranch, 336
" orange groves, 337
" vineyards, 337
" his home, 338
Williamson's Valley, 409
Wind-mills, 278
" " in California, 285, 441
Winds and rains of San Francisco, 281-2
Wines, California, 338
Wood and lumber scarce, 49
Wolves or cayotes, 216
Yankee-land, 22
Yankee hand and brain, 71
Yank's Station, 437
Yerbo Buena, 279
Yellow-jacket mine, 434
"You bet", 73-74
Yosemite Valley, 443
" first view of, 447
" South Dome and walls, 450
" Bridal Veil and Yosemite Falls, 451
" El Capitan, 451
" by moonlight, 451
" North Dome, etc., 452
" Lake and South Fork, 452
" Cascades and Vernal Falls, 453
" rainbows in, 453
" Nevada Falls, 454
" Sentinel Peak, 454
" Mt. Broderick, 454
" Cathedral Rock, 454
" in winter, 455
" from Hutchings', 449
" from Inspiration Point, 457
Young chief Wellington, 123-4
Young, Brigham, 175-9
" wives of, 180
children of, 181
" shrewd dodge of, 187
" success of, 195
" Indian policy of, 212
" Brigadier General, 175
" Colonel, 175
" Joseph, 211
(See Mormon.)
Zan Hincklin's ranch, 83-4
Zig-zags, mountain, 437
" swinging the, 438

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