France loses footing on the continent, 141 Franciscan Order supersedes the Jesuit in California, 122 Francis La Flesche, quoted, 89 Franklin, Missouri, starting-point of Santa Fé Trail, 257 Fraser's fort, 197, 198 Fraser River, 148 Frémont, John C., 225, 271, 298, 303, 304, 308 French, advance by the St. Lawrence route, 129; settlement on the St. John's River, 130; on the Saskatchewan, 134; first to Hudson Bay, 136; supremacy, 138 Frontenac, 132 Fuca, Juan de, 119; Strait of, supposed to go through to Atlantic, 142 Fulton, 222 Fur business still great, 304 Fur companies, battles of, 240 Furs confiscated, 253 Fur trade, 145; rivalry, 286 G Gadsden purchase, 315 Gallatin, Albert, his classification of Amerinds by language, 60; cited, 284 Gallatin River, 168 Garces, at the Colorado, 124; reaches Bac, 124; journeys of, 124; Sitgreaves follows trail of, 316 Gate of Lodore, 294 _General Jesup_, steamboat, 315 George, Point, 200 Geronimo, 266 Gila, trapping on the, 248, 255, 269 Glen, Robert, 226 Glenn and Fowler, go to Taos, 235; their party fight a white bear, 235; meet McKnight, Chambers, and Baird, 257 Glenn, Hugh, to Santa Fé, 235; builds first American house at Pueblo, first in Colorado, 235 Golden Gate, 119 Gold, mines in New Mexico, 267; found at San Fernando Mission, California, 308; at Sutter's Mill, 308 Goodman leaves the Powell party, 322 Government, aid to science, 303; sanctions Mormonism, 308; aid to railways, 328; to Union Pacific Railway, 329 Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay, or the Hudson Bay Company, 136 Grafton, Mormons settle there, 313 Graham, Lieutenant, takes Long's steamer down, 222 Grande Ronde, the valley of, Bonneville arrives there, 281 Grand Fork of the Arkansas, 185 Grand Island, town of, 334 Grand Pawnee war party, 185 Grand Peak, the, of Pike, or Pike's Peak, 186 Grand River, Powell arrives at its mouth, 322 Grand Wash, Hamblin crosses Colorado there, 317; Powell arrives there, 324 Grave of Soto, 127 Gray Canyon, 322 Gray, Captain Robert, 4; discoverer of the Columbia, 142; exchanges ships with Kendrick, 150; enters mouth of the Columbia, 150 Great Basin, location of, 6; southern rim of, 6 Great Britain acquires Canada, 141 Great Britain and the United States agree temporarily as to North-west Territory, 219 Great Salt Lake, 304 Great Slave Lake discovered by Hearne, 147 Greeley, Lewis, accompanies Hamblin to Moki Towns, 318 Greenhow, Robert, cited, 119