Chouteau, C. P., 201, 219 encounter with Col. Dimon, 261 Chouteau, Edward Liguest, La Barge’s companion, 19, 345 Chouteau, Pierre, Jr., colloquy with La Barge, 292 offers stand of colors to La Barge, 240 quoted, 35, 134 Civil War, the, effect of, on Indians, 368 relation of, to Mo. r. commerce, 249 et seq. termination of, 368 Clark, Fort, 139 Clark, Malcolm, attacks Alexander Harvey, 233 kills Owen McKenzie, 233 Clergymen as Indian agents, 143, 362 Cook, Camp, 410, 413 Cordelle, the, description of, 103 Cottonwood bark as forage, 49 Coues, Dr. Elliott, quoted, 313 Council Bluffs, first railroad at, 418 Crazy Wolf, Yanktonais Indian, 402 Crook, General, in campaign of 1876, 378, 379 Crooks, Ramsay, quoted, 138 Crow Indians, 352 enemies of Blackfeet, 223, 228 experience with Peace Com. of 1866, 404 Crow Indian prisoner killed by Pawnee, 31 Culbertson, Alexander, career at Fort Benton, 227 et seq. Cummings, Alfred, makes treaty with Blackfeet, 236, 359 Curtis, General, mem. Peace Com. 1866, 397 et seq. Custer, General, campaign of 1876, 380 command of, annihilated, 380 tries to arrest La Barge, 431 Custer massacre, first news of, 388 D Dauphin, Louis, hunter for steamboats, 126 subaqueous adventure of, 303 Dawson, Andrew, receives property of La Barge, Harkness & Co., 327 Dead Buffalo Lake, battle of, 372 Deadman, meaning of term in steamboating, 122 _Deer Lodge_, the, boats met by, in 1866, 273 Deer Lodge Valley, discovery of gold in, 266, 267 De Lacey, W. W., 237, 295 Departure from port, 127 De Smet, Father P. J., at Fort Laramie, arrived in 1851, 358 goes from Fort Union to Fort Laramie, 193 on the _St. Ange_ in 1851, 189 stories of, 194 Diamond R Company, 329 Dimon, Col. Charles A. R., 260 et seq. Dodge, Grenville M., assistance acknowledged, vi relations with Lincoln, 243, 244 Dog, a, causes steamboat wreck, 116 chloroformed by Gen. Harney, 202 Durack, John, lassoes a buffalo, 163 E Edgar, Henry, discoverer of Alder Gulch, 271 Edmunds, Newton, mem. Peace Com. of 1866, 397 _Edna_, the, explosion of, 124 _Effie Deans_, the, burned, 394 length of voyage in one season, 336 purchase of, 332 voyage of, in 1864, 319 _El Paso_, the, reaches Milk r., 218 Embalming, new method, 413 _Emilie_, the, 240, 241 voyage of, in 1862, 288 Evans, Dr., on the _St. Ange_ in 1851, 190 Exploration of the West, 174 Express, the, description of, 41 F Fairweather, William, discoverer of Alder Gulch, 271 _Far West_, the, part played by, in campaign of 1876, 387, 388 Fire canoe of the Indians, 111 Fisk James L., leader of Northern Overland Expedition, 270 Flood of 1844, 154 Floods of Missouri and Mississippi, 83, 155 Fremont, General John, as an explorer, 348 inaccessibility of, 347 La Barge’s acquaintance with, 347