Bienville founds New Orleans, 138 Bierstadt, picture of buffalo hunting referred to, 40 Big Medicine Canoe, 285 Big Thunder Canoe, 285 Big trees, 8, 9 Bighorn Mountains, 207 Bijeau, Joseph, guide to Long, 226 Bill Williams Fork, 117 _Bison Americanus_, 32 _Bisonte_, Spanish word for buffalo, 34 Bitter Root Range, Lewis and Clark traverse it, 169 Bitter Root River, 169 Black Canyon, Ives goes to head of, 317; Johnson takes steamer to head of, 317 Black Hills, 207; Parker goes that way, 287 Blackfeet a scourge, 244; attacked by whites, 273; hostility of, 243; likened to Iroquois, 244; tribe, where classed, 63 Blankets of buffalo wool woven by Osages, 50 _Blossom_, British war ship, carries Prevost to Astoria, 219 Blue Mountains, 281; Hunt crosses them, 213; Wyeth crosses them, 275 Boats used by Ashley, 238 Bodies destroyed by wolves and dogs, 99 Boiling Spring Creek, 225 Bold, The, Crow chief, captures Meek, 291; his opinion of the whites, 291 Bonneville, Captain, birth, education, etc., 270, 272; as a manager, 271; portrait of, 271; granted leave of absence, 272; starts, 272; outfit, 272; his waggons not the first to cross the plains, 272; did not lose a man, 272; route of, 272; takes first waggons as far as Green River, 272; builds fort at Green River, 272; fails to trade with natives, 273; goes to Salmon River, 274; goes to Snake River, 274; rendezvous in Green River Valley, 275; sends furs to St. Louis, 275; ignores orders, 276; dropped from the army, 276; claims discovery that Buenaventura River was a myth, 280; crosses Blue Mountains, 281; at Nez Perce camp, 281; goes to the Columbia, 281; cures chief's daughter, 281; at Fort Walla Walla, 281; goes again to the Columbia, 282; recrosses Blue Mountains, 282, 283; refused provisions by Hudson Bay Company, 282; declines guidance of Hudson Bay men, 282; back at Portneuf, 282; fails to get a footing on the Columbia, 283; refused provisions a second time at Walla Walla, 284; applies his name to Salt Lake, 284; his name given to an ancient sea, 284; adjusts his affairs and leaves the Wilderness, 284; his failure, 284; his maps copied, 284; reinstated, 284; serves in Seminole and Mexican wars, 284; made brevet brigadier-general, 284; dies, 284; Irving's work cited, 287 Bonneville Lake, an ancient sea, 284 Book of Mormon, 304; of Doctrine and Covenants, 305 Boone, Daniel, age of, 193; at La Charette, 193