Mexican, natives with Coronado remain behind, 113; found at Zuñi, 116; mountains seen by Pike, 185; independence, 228; permission for trapping, 253; Gregg's opinion of people and government, 264, 268; not respected by trappers, 264; amusements, 265; trade with Apaches, 265; agriculture, etc., 267; irrigation, 267; tariff on American goods, 268; belief that the Neuces bounded Texas, 298; companions of Walker lasso Amerinds, 280; war with the United States, 300; cession of 1848, 300 Michaux, Andre, 156 Middle Park, Denver, to Salt Lake, road through, 315 Minitarees, country of, 166 Mission of San Fernando, discovery of gold there, 308 Missionaries, at San Francisco Bay, 122; from La Paz to San Diego, 122; go to Oregon, 287; looked upon with suspicion by natives, 290; Protestant, hold themselves above the trappers, 290; Catholic, try to descend Colorado, 295 Missions, in New Mexico, 117; in Lower California, 120; arrangement of, 122; list of California missions and dates of founding, 122 Mississippi, Radisson's discovery, Preface, vii.; Soto's crossing, 127; upper, discovered, 132 Missouri, River, main highway to the Wilderness, 4; Todd goes up it, 151; Falls of, 166; Fur Company founded, 197 Mohaves buy Oatman girls, 309 Moki, tribe, where classed, 63; villages, 67; corn planting, 70; Towns, Hamblin goes there, 317; Ives goes there, 317 Montagne à la Basse, British trading post, 158, 163 Monterey Bay, missionaries fail to reach it, 122 Monterey, Walker passes the winter there, 280 Montreal, former native name for its site, 130 Monts, Sieur de, founds Port Royal, 130 Monument built by Verendrye, 139 More, one of Wyeth's men, killed in Jackson's Hole, 274 _Mormon, Book of_, 304 _Mormons_, The _Story of the_, Linn cited, 306 Mormons, 304; origin of, 304; opposition to, 304; books of the, 305; migrations, 305; arrive at Salt Lake, 305; privations of, 306; order, 307; claim to be invincible, 310; condemn the Mountain Meadows Massacre, 312; settle on the Santa Clara, 313; desirous of opening road across the Colorado for the benefit of the Lamanites, 317 Morrison's claim against La Lande, 190 Mosca Pass, Pike goes through it, 189 Moscoso de Alvarado, 127 Mother of Floods, the, 181 Mountain Meadows, trail through, 270, 309; Massacre, 310 Mountain, Wilderness, character of, 6; of the Holy Cross, 8 Mount Dellenbaugh, Powell's three men killed near it, 324