ld in grateful honor by the American people!

INDEX

A

Alkali, natural deposits of, 60.
Antelope, first seen, 29, how hunted, 69.
Assiniboins, at war with Sioux, 49.

B

Beaver, hunted as game, 70,
Beaver Head, 143.
Big Dry River, 75.
Bismarck, N. D., 44.
Bitter Root Mountains, 147.
Black Cat, a Mandan chief, 342.
Boone, Daniel, 14.
Buffalo, first signs of, 16; hunt, 51; curious adventure with, 87;
extermination of, 338.

C

Caches, how built, 98.
Calumet bird, 43.
Camas, edible root, 179.
Cameahwait, a Shoshonee chief, 157.
Camp, first winter, 48; departure from, 57.
Candle-fish, 252.
Cannonball River, N. D-, 43.
Captain Cook, 3.
Captain Gray, 3.
Captain Vancouver, 3.
Carroll, Mont., 83.
Carver, Jonathan, 5.
Cascades of the Columbia, 262.
Cathedral Rocks, 90-92.
Cheyenne River, 40.
Chinook Indians, 208, some account of, 246.
Chouteau, a St. Louis trader, 355.
Christmas (1804), 52. (1805), 240-
Clark, Captain, biographical notice Of, 7.
general of militia, 359.
Clark's Fort, 48.
river, 180-63.
party overtaken by disaster, 142.
Clatsop Indians, some account Of, 248.
Clearwater River, 183.
Cloudburst, 116.
Columbia River, discovery Of, 4.
portage to, 108;
at the headwaters of, 148.
at the entrance to, 194.
great falls of, 202;
the great chute Of, 21.
et seq. Comowol, a Columbia River Indian
chief, 239.
Condor, a California variety, 256.
Council Bluffs, 19.
Cowas, an edible root, 278.
Coyote, described, 72.
Crow Indians, 24.

D

Dalles, the, 266.
Dearborn River, 130.
Divide, on the great, 148;
across the, 179.
Dog's flesh as an article of food, 24.
185-

E

Echeloot Indians, 210.
Elk, hunting of, 251.
Ermine, first seen, 49.
Expedition, Lewis and Clark's, 7.
Organization of, 8.
route of, 10;
sets sail, 14.
"Experiment," failure of the boat, 124

F

Falls of the Missouri, 101.
description of, 11. et seq.
Flathead Indians, 211.
Floyd's River, why so named, 23.
Forks of the Missouri, 135.
Fort Clark, 48.
Clatsop, 255.

G

Gallatin's fork of the Missouri, 135.
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