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
Routes to California, 309
Ruddock, Samuel Adams, 233
Ruins, 68;
of Casa Grande, 68
Ruiz, 114
Russia agrees on boundary, 254
Russian explorations, 140;
claims, 220
Ruxton quoted, 296;
cited, 296
S
Sabine River, boundary of Louisiana, 221
Sacajawea, Chaboneau's wife, goes with Lewis and Clark
expedition, 163;
ill, 166;
discovers a brother, chief of the Shoshones, 168
Sachem, office of, 85
Sacramento, trapping on the, 255;
city, aid to Pacific Railway, 330
Sacred tent of the Dakotas, 51
St. Augustine, date of founding, 116;
first settlement by Europeans within the borders of the
United States, 130
St. Charles, 161
St. George, 317;
Lamanites to be endowed there, 317
St. Louis, founded, 141;
developing, 151;
point of departure for the Wilderness, 143;
in 1830, 244;
intercourse with Santa Fé, 257
Salcedo, General, 192
Salishan stock, range of, 68
Salleto, Don Ignacio, captures Pike, 190
Salt, lagoons of New Mexico, 8;
in California, 8;
where obtained by the Amerinds, 72
Salt Lake, early visitors, 233;
Ashley meets Ogden there, 240;
Bridger visits it, 242;
Ashley's men circumnavigate it, 242;
Provost there before Bridger, 243;
Bonneville's desire to explore it, 276;
Frémont sees it, 300;
Mormons attracted, 304-305;
American acquisition of, 308;
road to Denver from, explored by Berthoud and Bridger, 315;
wrecked trappers go there, 322
Salt Lake City, 306
Salt Lake Valley, visited 1776 by Escalante, 124
Salvatierra, Friar, 120
San Antonio de Padua, Mission, when founded, 122
San Antonio, settlement of, 134;
Texas, population of, in 1805, 176
San Carlos de Monterey, when founded, 122
San Diego, harbour, visited by Vizcaino and Cabrillo, 119;
Mission, when founded, 122
San Fernando Mission, when founded, 122;
gold found there, 308
San Francisco, Bay, missionaries go there, 122;
Anza founds mission there, 124;
aid to railway, 330
San Francisco de Solano de Sonoma Mission, when founded, 122
San Francisco mountains, 116
San Gabriel, settlement of, 116;
Mission, when founded, 122
Sangre de Cristo Pass, 189;
crossed by Fowler and Glenn, 235
San Jacinto, battle of, won by Texans, 298
San Joaquin Valley, Walker goes up it, 280
San José Mission, when founded, 122
San Juan, New Mexico, 130;
village of, Oñate's first settlement at, 116;
Bautista Mission, when founded, 122;
Capistrano Mission, when founded, 122
San Luis Obispo Mission, when founded, 122
San Luis Park, or Valley, 235
San Luis Rey de Francia Mission, when founded, 122
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