Kanab, 318 Kansas City, 309 Karankawan stock, location of, 67 Karoskiou River, 139 Kaskaias tribe met by Long, 226 Kearney, General, 300 Kendrick, Captain, goes into Strait of Fuca, 150 Keresan stock, location of, 67 Kichai tribe, where classed, 64 Killbuck with La Bonté, 296 Kino, Friar, 120; first to see Casa Grande ruins, 120; map of head of Gulf of California, made by, 120; astronomer of Ingolstadt, 124 Kiowa tribe, 64 Kiowan stock, range of, 64 Kiva, 93 Knisteneau tribe, 63 Kooskooskie River of Lewis and Clark, 170 L La Bonté, 213; battle with Arapahos, 296; remains at a Ute camp to recuperate, 298 Labyrinth Canyon, name carved there, 296; Green River, 322 La Charette, Lewis and Clark plan to winter there, 160, 161 La Clede founds St. Louis, 141 Lake Bonneville, situation and character of, 6, 284 Lake Timpanogos, or Utah Lake, 124 La Lande, goes to Santa Fé, 1804, 176; Morrison's claim against him, 190; Pike meets him on the way to Santa Fé, 191 Lamanite, the Mormon name for the Amerind, 317 Land grant, specified, 329; aggregate to Pacific railways, 330 Languages, Amerind, number of, in North America, 61 Lapage, 164 La Paz, missionaries go from there to San Diego, 122 La Perouse, explorer, 148 La Purisima Concepcion, Mission of, when founded, 122 L'Archeveque, the decoy in the assassination of La Salle, 134 La Reine, Fort de, of Verendrye, 139 _Lark_, the Astoria supply-ship, wrecked, 218 Laroche, British trader, 162; same as La Roque, 162; planned expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 163 La Salle, to the mouth of the Mississippi, 133; his dream of colonisation, 134; murdered, 134; expedition, remnant of, found by Leon, 134 Lasso, throwing the, in New Mexico, 267 Last spike on the trans-continental railway, driving the, 333; last tie, 336 Latrobe, Charles, companion of Washington Irving, 287 Laut, Miss A. C., Preface, vii. Lawlessness at the terminals of the trans-continental railway, 332 Law's Mississippi Company, 138 Le Clerc, Francis, 216 Ledyard, John, suggests trans-continental exploration, 153 Lee Ferry, first crossing there by white men, 318; map showing location of, 326 Lee, Jason and Daniel, 283, 308 Lee, John D., leader of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, 312; hides at the mouth of the Paria, 318; begins Lee's Ferry, 318 Leithead, Mormon bishop, brings supplies for Powell, 325 Lemhi Pass, 168 Leon, Alonzo de, finds remnant of La Salle party, 134 Leon, Ponce de, 103