Eskimauan stock, 66 _Esmeralda_, steamboat, goes up the Colorado, 317 Espejo, Antonio de, goes to New Mexico, 114; direction of his route from Tiguex, 114; goes to Zuñi, 116; to San Francisco Mountains, 116; route, 116; sees buffalo on the Rio Pecos, 116 Espiritu Santo, Rio de, 104 Estevan, companion of Cabeza de Vaca, 106; guides Friar Marcos, 108; killed, 108; Diaz meets some of the natives who were with Estevan when he went to Cibola, 110 _Evangeline_, Longfellow's poem, cited, 130 Expedition of Lewis and Clark, 157, 158 Expedition of Villazur toward the Missouri in 1720, 117 Exploration of the Colorado by Ives, 317 Explorations of the Californian coast, 119 _Explorer, The_, Ives's steamboat, 317; picture of, 316 F Falls of the Missouri, 166 Faith Promoting Series, Books of the Mormon Church, 313 Farnham cited, 295 Father de Smet, 308 Ferrelo explores coast of Oregon, 119 Fidler, Peter, 160; goes south-west from Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains, 151 Fields, Reuben, with Lewis and Clark, kills a Blackfoot, 172 First, highway to the Wilderness, 130; European settlement in the United States, 130; traverse of the continent north of Mexico, 148; American to go to California overland, 250; American to see the Grand Canyon, 250 Fitzpatrick, with Ashley, 234; guides Parker, 287 Flaming Gorge, 238; first of the canyons below Green River Valley, on Green River, 234 Florida, 127; conquest of, 103; ceded to the United States, 220 Floyd, Sergeant, death of, 162 Fontaine qui Bouille, Boiling Spring Creek, 186; Long camps on it, 224; Frémont's name for it, 224 Fontenelle guides Parker, 287 Forsyth, Thomas, opinion of methods of treating natives, 269; tells of abuse of natives, 269 Fort, Chepewyan, 147; Charles, 151; Mandan, 162; Clatsop, 170; Smith, Long arrives there, 227; Nonsense, 272; Walla Walla, 281; Hall, 283; Vancouver, 283; Tecumseh, 285; Union, whiskey still at, 286; Davy Crockett, Meek at, 294; Yuma, position of, 315 Fort Yuma, Derby explores river to, 325; Sumner and Hawkins go there, 325 Forty-ninth parallel boundary, 219 Forty-second parallel boundary, 220 Fossil remains of buffalo, 38 Fowler, Jacob, builds first house by an American at Pueblo, 235; goes to Santa Fé, 235; journal of, 235; his description of Dawson's condition after the bear fight, 237 Fowler and Glenn, go to Taos, 235; meet McKnight, Chambers, and Baird, who were imprisoned in Mexico, 257 Foy killed by Blackfeet, 274 Fraeb hunts through the Rocky Mountains, 280