Index 
399 
Ute Agency, 204; crossing, 298’; ford, 
216 
Utes, 68 ; elopers, 265 ; run a rapid, 
194 
V 
Vasquez, 146 
Vegas Wash, 168 
Vegetation of Basin of the Colorado, 69 
Velocity of rapids, 361, appendix 
Vermilion Cliffs, 304 
Vesey’s Paradise, 323; Stanton’s night 
there, 357 
Virgen Mountains, 53 
Vortex of whirlpools, 339 ; diameter of, 
339 
W 
Walker, 135 
Wallapais, 68, 90 
Walls seldom vertical, 40 
Wasatch Mountains, 52; Escalante’s 
crossing of, 100 
Wesleyan College, 374 
Wesleyan University, 192, 377 
Wheeler, Lieut. Geo, M. 54, 295, 342; 
expedition, 294; boats, 296, 297 ; 
personnel of party, 296 ; new ground 
traversed 297 ; enters Grand Canyon, 
298; reaches Diamond Creek, 303; 
names of those reaching Diamond 
Creek, 303; assumption, 303 
Wheeler Brothers, 346 
Whipple, Lieut., 140, 148, 151 
Whirlpool Canyon, 203, 259 ; length of, 
61, appendix 
Whirlpools, 338; dimensions of, 339 
White River, 100 
White’s story, 174; companions, 175; 
picked up, 174; description of mouth 
of Little Colorado, 181; end of jour¬ 
ney, 183 
Wickenburg stage massacre, 296 
Width of river, 59; in Wonsits Val¬ 
ley, 60 ; inner gorge at Toroweap, 
59 ; remarks on, appendix 
Wilcox, Captain, 144, 162 
Williamson, Colonel, 189 
Wind River Mountains, 4, 54, 135 
Wolfskin, Wm., 274; trail, 128 
Wonsits Valley, 60, 204, 264 
Wreckage, ancient, in Lodore, 200 
Wreck of Brown expedition cooking 
outfit, 350 
Wreck of the No-Name, 198 
X 
Xavier, San, del Bac, 87 
Y 
Yabipai Tejua, 92 
Yampa River, 61, 202, 256 
Yant, plant eaten by Pai Utes, 71 
Yellowstone, 118 
Young, Ewing, 128 
Yuma, ferry, 140 ; name for Colorado 
River, go 
Yuma, steamboat, 142 
Yumas, 68, 120 
Z 
Zalvidar, 80 
Zamorano, Nicolas, 14, 25 
Zuni, 94; Mountains, 53 
