Breaking the Wilderness : $b The Story of the Conquest of the Far West, From the Wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, to the First Descent of the Colorado by Powell, and the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway, With Particular Account of the Exploits of Trappers and TradersDellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
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Breaking the Wilderness : $b The Story of the Conquest of the Far West, From the Wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, to the First Descent of the Colorado by Powell, and the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway, With Particular Account of the Exploits of Trappers and Traders
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- History
Green River, 4, 208;
named after trapper, 234;
descended by Ashley, 238;
first use of name, 249;
Kit Carson becomes familiar with, 255;
Meek goes down, 295;
map, 295;
Bridger's attempt to explore, 314
Green River Station, Wyoming, 320;
adobe ruins of, 332, 334;
terminal, 334
Green River Valley, 208, 234, 256
Green, trapper with Ashley, 234
Gregg, asserts buffalo herd is easily turned, 45;
book on Santa Fé Trail, 257;
crosses to Santa Fé, 258
Grinnell, Henry, rescues Oatman girl, 310
Gulf of California receives Colorado River, 4
Gun, Amerind acquisition of, a boon, 72
Guns of Lewis and Clark, flintlocks, 164
Gunnison Valley, 322
Gypsiferous clay, 68
H
Halberd, Spanish, found on Reid's farm, 126
Hall, 303
Hamblin, Jacob, 313, 324;
journeys of, 317;
explores a road by the Ute Ford to the Moki Towns, 317;
goes to Moki Towns _via_ Grand Wash, 317;
circumtours the Grand Canyon, 318;
first to cross Colorado by Lee Ferry route, 318;
Grand Wash to Callville by boat, 324
Hammer of silver for driving last spike of Union Pacific, 336
Ham's Fork, Green River Valley, 309
Hancock meets Lewis and Clark, 174
Haney, British trapper, 163;
visits Lewis and Clark, 180
Harmon, Daniel, 158;
his description of the Canadian voyageur, 147
Hawkins, of Powell's party, 325
Heceta, Inlet of, 142
Heceta, Bruno, at mouth of the Columbia, 142
Helay River. _See_ Gila.
Hennepin, 133
Henry, Andrew, 196, 208;
discoverer of South Pass, 234;
crosses Continental Divide in 1809, 234;
with Ashley, 234
Henry's Fork, 238
Hernando de Soto, expedition of, 126
Hidatsa tribe, where classed, 61
Hind, description of a buffalo pound,46
Hoback, trapper, 206;
on headwaters of the Snake, 208
Hochelaga, original name for site of Montreal, 130
Holy Cross, Mountain of the, 8
Horse, coming of the, to America, 72
Horse Prairie Creek, 168
Horses and cattle numerous early in New Mexico, 267
Hospitality, 82
Hostile Ground, 100, 185
House building, nature of, due to surroundings, 70
House-building tribes, 66
House, of the Shoshones, 68;
of the Dakotas, 68;
of tribes of New Mexico, 68;
of California, 68
Houses of the Amerinds, 68
Houston wins battle of San Jacinto, 298
Hubates, 116
Huddart, William, goes from Taos to Green River, 249
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