Crossing of the Fathers (El Vado de los Padres), 125; early known to Robert Campbell, 314; Jacob Hamblin goes that way, 317; map showing position of, 326 Crow chief's opinion of the whites, 291 Crow method of truce conference, 293 Crow tribe, where classed, 61 Crozat, Antoine, grant to, 138 Cruelty of Amerinds, 100 Cruz, Friar Juan de la, 114 Cruzatte accidentally shoots Lewis, 174 Cruzatte's post, 160 Cunames, town found by Espejo on the Puerco, 114 Currant Creek, Pike camps at mouth of, 188 D Dakota, tribe, where classed, 61; tipi, 68 Davis in the Far North, 131 Dawson killed by a white bear, 235 Day, John, reduced to a skeleton, 212; dies, 216 Dead Sea of America, 304, 305 Deception Bay, 148 Dellenbaugh, Mount, 324 Denver to Salt Lake, road explored, 315 Derby, Lieutenant, explores Colorado up to Yuma, 315 Deseret, State of, 305, 308 De Smet, Father, 308 Desolation, Canyon of, 322 De Soto. _See_ Soto. Diamond Creek, 317 Diaz, Melchior, sent to reconnoitre, 109; explores from Corazones to the Colorado River, 111; finds, letters from Alarçon, 111; goes back with Marcos, 111; dies, 111; Dickson met by Lewis and Clark, 174 Dillon, Sidney, 333 Disappointment, Cape, 148 Diseases, ravages of, 97 Disorder at railway terminals, 336 Dixon, 148 Dixon and Hancock, 194 Dodge, General, 336; chief engineer Union Pacific Railway, 330 Dog, the only domestic animal of the Amerind of North America, 56; used as food, 77 Dolores Mission, Sonora, Mexico, 120 Domesticating buffalo, 51 Dorantes, Andreas, 106 Dorion, 161; lived early with the Sioux, 151; Pierre, with Hunt, 206; his squaw and children, 210; squaw has a child on the road, 213 Dougherty, one of Pike's men, freezes his feet, 190 Drake on California coast, 119 Drake's Bay, 119 Drewyer, interpreter for Lewis and Clark, 163 Drouillard, interpreter for Lewis and Clark, 163 Drunkenness at railway terminals, 332 Duff, John, 333 Dugout house, 332 Dunbar, 181 Dupratz, story of great western river heard by him, 140 Durant, Doctor, 336 Dutch at New York, 132 E Echo Park, 294 El Real de Dolores, gold mine in New Mexico, 267 El Vado de los Padres (the Crossing of the Fathers), 125 Engineer Cantonment, 222 Entrails of animals eaten raw, 79 Escalante, buffalo seen by him on White River near Green River, 36; names Arroyo del Cibolo, 36; journey of, 124; abandons attempt to reach San Gabriel, 125; crosses the Colorado, 125; route, 168; mentioned, 317 Escalona, Luis de, remains in New Mexico, 113