FOOTNOTES: [105] Though beaver trapping was no longer profitable, yet the fur business was still carried on, and, as Chittenden points out, is to-day greater than ever. Furs now come from a much wider range, however. [106] Books about the Mormons are full of prejudice one way or the other. The most valuable account I know is _The Story of the Mormons_, by William A. Linn. [107] The reader may conclude from my remarks on alcoholic beverages that I am a Prohibitionist or a teetotaler, yet such is not the case. But the manner in which whiskey was furnished to the natives, and the way in which it debauches the frontier towns, are a disgrace to humanity. [108] For location of forts and trading posts see Chittenden, _History of the American Fur Trade_, Part III., with an excellent map. [109] _Captivity of the Oatman Girls_, R. B. Stratton. [110] _Jacob Hamblin_; _A Narrative of His Personal Experience_, Fifth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, by James A. Little. Juvenile Instructor Office, Salt Lake City, 1881. [111] The Mormons also settled in southern California, and Major Bell declared "they were the very best fellows" he ever had to do with. In 1859 they were recalled to Utah by Brigham Young, who for the time being concentrated his people in the territory over which they had control. [112] Provo to Golden. [113] Being desirous of securing details of Johnson's operations, and finding that he was still living in California, I wrote to him about a year ago requesting information particularly on certain main facts. Instead of giving it to me, he replied that he would soon publish a book in which I would find all the points, and referred me to that. He died soon after, and I have not been able to get track of the book. [114] For a list of the canyons in their sequence, with declivity, altitudes, height of walls, etc., see Appendix, _The Romance of the Colorado River_, by F. S. Dellenbaugh. [115] After this was written Sumner died—in 1907. INDEX A Acadia, 130 Acoma, 114 Acuco, 112 Adiazan stock, location of, 68 Adams River, 250 Adobe concrete, 68 Adopted men become chiefs, 84 Adoption, Amerind system of, 84 Agent cuts off native's ears, 269 Agriculture, early, in New Mexico, 267 Aguardiente, 268 Aguilar goes north of Mendocino to great river, 142 Alarçon, Hernando de, goes up the coast, 40; discovers the Colorado, 111 Alaska boundary, 254 Alcaraz, Captain, meets Cabeza de Vaca, 101 Alcohol, 94; sold to natives, 179 Algonquian stock, 63; range of, 64 Allencaster, governor of New Mexico, 191 Alta California, 120; Missions first planted there, 122 Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, 2, 104, 106, 107, 108-111