Cascade range, 6 Casement, J. S., chief contractor Union Pacific Railway, 330, 337; Dan, 337 Castoreum, musky secretion of beaver, 27; used as bait, 27; in medicine, 27 Cataract Canyon on the Colorado River, 324; name carved there, 296 Catholics in the northern Wilderness, 308 Catlin, painted buffalo, etc., 38; on steamer _Yellowstone_, 285 Cavelier, Robert, Sieur de la Salle, 133 Central Pacific Railway, 328 Cerré, with Bonneville, 272 Chaboillez, Charles, 158; sent note to Lewis, 163 Chaboneau, interpreter to Lewis and Clark, 163; Creek, 163 Chambers to Santa Fé in 1812, 257 Chamita, site of Oñate's first settlement, 130 Champlain, founds Quebec, 130; goes westward, 130 Chamuscado enters New Mexico, 114 Charles, Fort, 151 Chepewyan, Fort, founded, 147 Cheyenne, tribe, where classed, 64; town of, 334 Chichilticalli, 110 Chihuahua, Pike taken to Salcedo's headquarters there, 192 Chittimachan, stock, location of, 67 Chittenden, H. M., on Bonneville, 270; reference to his book, 270; quoted, 270, 271, 277, 280; opinion of Bonneville, 271; opinion of the Salt Lake exploring project, 277; on Bonneville's breach of discipline, 284 Children, treatment of, by Amerinds, 85 Chinook jargon, 63 Chippewa tribe, where classed, 63 Chouteau, Auguste, 174, 194 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 304 Cibola, Seven Cities of, 110, 113 Cibola, cows of, 34; why so called, 34 Cicuye, 112 Cimarron River, 257 Claims of the various Powers in North America, 144 Clan, 82; life, 82; names, 86; property, 82 Clappine drowned, 210 Clark, Chaboneau, and Sacajawea nearly lost, 166 Clark, George Rogers, 153, 157 Clark, William, to go with Lewis, 157; commissioned lieutenant, 158; explores Salmon River, 169; made agent for the western tribes, 174; made general of militia, 174; ordered to suppress whiskey still, 286 Clarke hangs a Nez Perce, 243 Clatsop, Fort, 170, 196 Clyburn, his dash for life, 245; walks to Council Bluffs, 245 Coahuiltecan stock, location of, 67 Coast range, 8 Color of buffalo, 38 Colorado, City, 224; first American structure in State of, 186; Plateau, 270