Smith, Jedediah S., 232; with Ashley, 234; character, 234; goes from Salt Lake to California, 250; goes to San Gabriel Mission, 250; crosses the Sierra, 251; returns to Salt Lake, 251; goes to California a second time, 251; attacked by Mohaves, 251; thrown into prison by the Spaniards in California, 251; traps to the Columbia, 251; circuits he made, 252; party destroyed by Shastas, 252; reaches Fort Vancouver, 252; meets Sublette's search party, 252; back at Salt Lake, 252; killed by Comanches, 262; Gregg's estimate of, 262; first to traverse Nevada, 269; Walker's journey compared to Smith's, 280 Smith, Joseph, Mormon prophet, 304; murder of, 305 Smith, Pegleg, 263; _see_ Thomas L. Smith. Smith, Thomas L., 263; amputates his leg, 263; called Pegleg, 263; his business, 263; gives up raiding, 264; he and Beckwourth make a raid, 264 Snake River, 210; plain, 211 Snow sheds in the Sierra, 331 Socorro, copper mines near, 267 Soledad Mission, when founded, 122 Song of the voyageur, 129 Sonora, Mission of Dolores in, 120; Pass, Sierra Nevada range, 280 Sonoran government proclamation concerning booty taken from natives, 265 Soto, Hernando de, 126; crosses the Mississippi, 127; death and burial, 127; forgotten, 133 Sounds, strange, heard by Lewis and Clark, 168 South Pass, discovered by Andrew Henry, 234; Bonneville goes over it, 272; Frémont selected to explore it, 300 South-west, little mention of the trapping that went on there, 269 Spain and the United States, relations of, in 1805, 181; agree on Louisiana boundary, 220 Spalding, Reverend H. H., with Whitman, 289 Spaniards expelled by the Pueblos from New Mexico, 117 Spanish, term for buffalo, 34; restrictions on exploration, 117; Fork, 124; destroy French in Florida, 130; protest against the transfer of Louisiana to the United States, 152; objection to Lewis and Clark's entering Louisiana before transfer, 160; watch Pike, 181; intention regarding Pike, 190; claims, 220; River, 208, 234; women on Santa Fé Trail, 258; Trail, 270, 322 Sparks, one of Pike's men, freezes his feet, 190; Captain, attempts to explore Red River, 227 Spike, the last, 335, 337 Split Mountain Canyon, 294 Sportsmen go to the Wilderness, 287 Stampede, 260 Stanford, Governor, drives the last spike, 336 Steamboat, on Long's expedition, 222; to mouth of Yellowstone, 285; first above Council Bluffs, 285; advantage of, on the Missouri, 286; _Colorado_, _Esmeralda_, _General Jesup_, _Uncle Sam_, 315