Oregon Trail, beginnings of, 214, 281; becomes popular, 283; Parker and Whitman travel it, 287; start at Westport, 309 Orleans, Fort, established, 138 Ortiz, Juan, interpreter to Soto, 127 Overland stage company, road from Salt Lake to Denver explored for, 315 Oviedo, Lope de, 106 Oxen on the Santa Fé Trail, 258 P Pacific, Fur Company, organised, 198; voyageurs, for 198; ended, 218; bearing on boundary questions, 219; railways, right of way, 328; land grant to, 329; cash bonus to, 329; aggregate land grant to, 330; miles built per day, 330; supply train wrecked, by Amerinds, 331; railway completed, 336 Padilla, Friar Juan de, 113 Pai Utes begin to cultivate maize, 76 Palmyra, New York, Mormonism originates near, 304 Pambrune, Hudson Bay Company agent, refuses to sell food to Bonneville, 281 Paria River, 314; Hamblin crosses Colorado at mouth of, 318; John D. Lee settles at mouth of, 318 Parker, Samuel, missionary of the Presbyterian Church, goes to Oregon, 287; his opinion of the trappers, 288; description of a trapper duel, 288 Parkman, Francis, description of Beckwourth, 238; goes to the Wilderness, 287 Parks of the Rocky Mountains, 6; location of, 6; names of, 6; San Luis, 235 Pathfinder, the, 298, 303 Pattie, James O., encounter with a buffalo calf, 52; explores the valley of the Colorado, 248; crosses the Continental Divide, 249; book by, 249; returns east, 249 Pattie, Sylvester, 246-248 Pawnee house, 151 Pawnee tribe, where classed, 64 Peace River, 148 _Pearl of Great Price_, Mormon book, 305 Pecos River, natives hunted buffalo there in 1540, 34; Espejo follows it down on his exit from New Mexico, 116 Pemmican, how made, 40; accumulated, 80 Penn, William, 132 Piccolo, Friar, 120 Pierre, town of, how named, 285 Pierre's Hole, Smith meets Sublette's party there, 252; battle of, 273