Tower of Babel, Amerinds supposed by the Mormons to be descendants of some who were dispersed at that time, 304 Townshend, naturalist, with Wyeth, 283 Traders, cupidity of, 94, 286 Trading-posts on Missouri, 151 Trail, of Escalante, 124; from Zuñi to the Crossing of the Fathers, 314 Trail, Creek, 168 Trap, beaver, 28; where set, 29; bait, 29; picture of, 29 Trappers, operations of, 221, 253; qualities of, 231; treatment of natives by, 232; did their own surgery, 288; wrecked in Lodore, 322 Traveller's Rest, camp of Lewis and Clark, 169 Travois, the, 89 Treaty, ending war of 1812, signed, 219; of 1848, between Mexico and the United States relative to the boundary of Louisiana, 300; of Gadsden with Mexico, 315 Tribal names, 86 Trinchera Valley, 235 Trudeau's House, 151 Tucson, 124 Turk, the, 112 Turnbull takes a small steamer to the Colorado, 315 Tusayan, 110 Tushepaws, or Sciatogas, 214 Tutahaco, group of Pueblos visited by Coronado, 114 U Ugarte, Friar, 120 Uinta, range, cut into by Green River, 234; Agency, Goodman leaves the Powell party and goes out that way, 322 Umatilla, Hunt arrives in the valley of, 213 _Uncle Sam_, steamboat on the Colorado, 315 Union Express Company, 336 Union Pacific Railway formed, 328; Government aid to, 329 United States, gains all east of the Mississippi, 144; claims in 1818, 220; treaty with Mexico, 1848, 300 Utah, Lake, 242; called Timpanogos, 124; territory established, 308 Ute, tribe, where classed, 63; action of, on approach of Arapaho enemies, 297; La Bonte goes to a camp, 297; ford of the Colorado, 314; Hamblin crosses by the ford, 317 V Vaca, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de, wrecked with Narvaez, 103; first white man to penetrate the Wilderness, 104; starts west, 106; meets Spaniards from the west coast, 107 Vacas, Rio de las, 116 Vallar, Andri, 216 Valley of the Colorado, 6 Vancouver, Point, 170 Vancouver, in Deception Bay before Gray, 150 Vanished race theories, 68 Vaquero, 129; Mexican, 267; skill of, 267 Vargas, General, reconquers New Mexico from the Pueblos, 117 Verendrye, Sieur de la, 138; his expedition, 139; his route, 158 Verrazano's cruise, 128 Veta Pass, 189 Villazur expedition, 117, 138, 182; title of paper on, by Bandelier, 134 Virgin River, Jedediah Smith reaches it and calls it Adams River, 250; trapping on it, 269; difference in altitude between Green River Station, Wyoming, and the mouth of, 320 Virgin, Thomas, Virgin River perhaps named after him, 250