CONTENTS. 
ROUTES EXPLORED. 
Indian names—Ge ology—Gener ral Leino salianek portions—Sandy Se 
_ Characteristics m4 each—Limits for settlements—Black Hills—Bear and 
hide Peaks—Th Bad Lands, les Mauvaises nee with a sketch—The Sand Hated 
les Buttes de sale: with a gc Fore du Missouri 
RIVERS. 
a Missouri, description of, resources, navigation, &c.—Platte, description, &c.—Loup 
Fork—L’Eau qui Court—White river—Bad river, or Little Missouri river— 
Big Shyenne—Rivitre & Jaques, or James river—Vermilion—Big Sioux ..++.+++ 
ROUTES, TRANSPORTATION, &ce. 
Fort Leavenworth to Fort Laramie—Mormon emigration, Fort Pierre to Fort Lara- 
_mie—Mouth of l’Eau qui Court to Fort Laramie—Fort Pierre to Fort Kearny, 
Fort Pierre to Sioux aepiabaa rt Pierre to Fort Ridgely—Fort Pierre to the Big 
Shyenne—Near the mouth of the Platte to the mouth of 1’Eau qui Court...... 
INDIANS, AND MILITARY POSTS. 
Sioux—Divisions of, viz: Mdewakantonwans, tlc meee Lage! incr 
* wans, Isanties, Ihanktonwans, Thanktonwannas, Titonwa: aie, Unkp 
‘pas, ee a a Ogalalas ipehi 
numbers. de — ers i 
oux—Of mouth of Moreau—Fort 
earny—Fort Laramie—Impracticability of istek campaigns—Prosecution of 
the so deren nnes—Crows—Mandans—Aricarees — Minni- 
tares—A 
CONCLUSION. 
a : 
Country ome to ‘be examined—Importance of information—Explana- 
tion of maps, &c.—Assistance sari ese pg aed in natural history—Journey 
m Fort Brie to a Kearny. J 
APPENDIX A. 
m Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie—From Fort Lara- 
des, apiads, sere magnetic declinations—Details of routes from Fort 
to Fort Kearn ‘ 
to Fort eee , Fort = to Sioux DE oem from St. Louis 
of the Yi 
