O'Rourke, Phil., 532 Osceola, 221 Osio, Antonio, 661 Otermin, Gov., 459 Oumetz, Padre, 654 _Outre Mer_ quoted, 278 "Overland Mail Express Company," 385 _Overland Monthly_, 614 Overland Telegraph Line, 499 Overton, A.M., 535, 554 P Pacific Fur Company, 538 Pacific Railway, 414 Pacific Telegraph, 412 Parke, Benjamin, 196 Parkman, Francis, 129; quoted, 280 Parrant, 270 Parraquia, 464 Parson, Samuel H., 6 Parton, James, quoted, 81 Paty, Capt., 660 Payne, U.S. Senator, 31 Peck, Eben, 240 Peck, P.F.W., 209 Peoria, 206 Peralta, Gov. Pedro, 453 Perez, Gov. Albino, 468 Pérouse, Count, 627, 629 Perrot, 129, 132 Perry, first settler at St. Paul, 270 Perry, President Alfred Tyler, 26 Perry's victory, Commodore, 116 Pettygrove, F.W., 554 Phelan, Mayor James D., 610 Philadelphia, 90, 193 Philippines, the, 195, 572, 649 Pico, Don Pio, 655, 660, 664 _ff._ Pico, Jesus, 669 Piernas, 340, 342 "Pig's Eye," _see_ Parrant Pike, Lieut. Zebulon M., 267, 348, 430, 434, 467 Pike's Peak, 436, 437, 442 Pillsbury, Chas. A., 283 Pillsbury, Gov. John S., 285, 288 Pina, Maxima, 658 Pioneer Day, 483 Pirates on the Mississippi, 346 Pittsburg, 196 Platteville, 238 Plymouth, 2, 5, 88 Plymouth Rock, 620 Plympton, Major, 272 Polk, President, 552 Pontiac, conspiracy of, 106-109, 136-140, 175; death of, 337-339 Pool, Lieut., 111 Popé, conspiracy of, 458-461 Portalá, 622, 623, 650 Portland, Thos. L. Cole on, 535-568; origin of, 535; Astoria, 536-544; Vancouver, 544-549; Oregon City, 549-556; massacre of Whitman, 556; California gold fever, 556; situation of, 557; a great seaport, 558; Henry Villard's contribution to growth of, 560; character of, 562-568 _Portsmouth_, the, 581 Potosi, academy at, 352 "Prairie Schooner," 384 Pratt, Orson, 483, 486 Prentice, Samuel, 660 Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles, 646 _ff._ Pursley, 468 Putnam, Herbert, 285 Putnam, Israel, at Detroit, 109 Putnam, Rufus, 2, 4-7, 26, 28 Q Quebec, 91, 134, 198, 338 R Racine, 238 Radisson, 129 Ragan, Jacob, 395 Raleigh Tavern, 628 Ralston, A., 147 Ramsey, Gov. A., 271 Rantoul, Robert, 273 Reavis, L.U., 331 Recollets, 129, 134, 266 Red Jacket, 338 Reedy, William Marion, on St. Louis, 331-373 Reid, Hugo, 672 _Relations_, 129, 130 _Republic, The St. Louis_, 349 _Republican, The Missouri_, 362 _Republican, The Santa Fé_, 474 Revolution, the American, 82, 95, 109-112, 177, 266, 342; officers in, buried at Marietta, 27 Revolution of 1848, 364 Rezanoff visits San Francisco Bay, 579