CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



FROM FORT LEAVENWORTH TO FORT KEARNY. 



Fort Leavenworth — Cholera — " Corralling" on the plains — Sauk Indians — Big 

 Blue River — Emigrant graves — Pawnee horse-thieves — Independence road 

 — California emigrants — Boston pack company — Dutch gold-hunter — Storm 

 on the prairie — Game — Platte valley — Buffalo — Scarcity of fuel — Fort 

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CHAPTER XL 



FROM FORT KEARNY TO FORT LARAMIE. 



Character of the Platte valley — Absence of timber — Fossils — Forks of the 

 Platte — Action of water — Prairie-dog village — Buffalo meat — Fossil bones 

 — Crossing of the South Fork — Sioux dead lodge — Ash Hollow — North Fork 

 of the Platte — Fourth of July on the plains — Sioux burial — Indian girl — 

 Inhumanity of emigrants — Sioux villages — Cholera — Sioux moving — Court 

 House Rock — Lignite-Capitol — Chimney Rock — Scott's Bluff — Fort La- 

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CHAPTER IIL 



FROM FORT LARAMIE TO FORT BRIDGER. 



Limestone quarry — Warm Spring — Destruction of property by emigrants — 

 Gypsum — Deer creek — Coal — Crossing of North Fork — Coal on North Fork 

 — Red Buttes — Abandoned wagons — Dead cattle — Gales on the plains — 

 Poisonous alkaline springs and incrustations — Independence Rock — Devil's 

 Gate — Sweetwater River — Wind River Mountains — Salseratus Lake — De- 

 serters — Canon of the Sweetwater — South Pass — Pacific Springs — Emigrant 

 ruse — Fossil trees — Green River — Fort Bridger — Uintah Mountains — Road 

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CHAPTER IV. 



FROM FORT BRIDGER TO THE CITY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE. 



Reconnoissance between Fort Bridger and the Northern end of Salt Lake — 

 Bear River — Medicine Butte — Pumbar's Creek — Ogden's Hole — Shoshonee 



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