Freight rates on the Missouri, 276 Fuel for steamboats, 117 Fur trade, relation of, to the Indians, 353 use of steamboats in, 3 G Galpin, Charles E., 341 Galpin, Fort, 293 Galvanized Yankees, 260 Gardner, Johnson, transports furs by bullboat, 101 Garreau, Pierre, 197 Gibbon, General, in Custer campaign, 378 Gilbert, Colonel, incident concerning, 427 Gold, discovery of, in California, 173 discovery of, in Montana, 237, 265 et seq., 368 Gold dust, first sale of, in Montana, 267 great quantity shipped by the _Octavia_, 413 transportation of, 275, 333 Good, Frederick, lost from the _Trover_, 286 Government work on the Missouri r., 421 et seq. Grant, General, La Barge’s acquaintance with, 347 La Barge’s resemblance to, 443 Grattan massacre, 366, 367 Great Falls of the Missouri, 75 first white woman to see, 294 Great Falls City, Mont., 420 Great fire of St. Louis, 185 Great Northern R. R. reaches Helena, 417, 418 Greer, Capt. W. B., witnesses transactions at Fort Union, 316, 320, 321 Grismore, Nathan, La Barge’s mate, 181 Guerette, Louis, killed on the _Saluda_, 24, 124 Guerette, Pelagie wife of Capt. La Barge, 71 Guerrillas in Missouri, 250 H Half breeds, British, among the Indians, 369 Hannibal and St. Joseph R. R. reaches the Mo. r., 241, 417, 418 Hard, C. D., arrests La Barge, 432 Harkness, James, connection of, with firm of La Barge, Harkness & Co., 286, 293, 324, 329 journal of, 290 Harney, General, campaign of 1855, 367, 383 chloroforms a dog, 202 experience with Captain La Barge’s father, 6 friend of the Indians, 201 quoted, 356 Harvey, Alexander, attacked by Malcolm Clark, 234 desperate character of, 229 et seq. Harvey, Primeau & Co., 234 Hat, Louis Dauphin’s, 303 Hawley, Hubbell & Co., buy out Am. F. Co., 239, 260 Hayden, Dr. F. N., on La Barge’s boat, 209 Helena, Mont., rise of, 272 Hill, Father W. H., preaches La Barge’s funeral sermon, 440 Hodgkiss, Wm., agent at Fort Union, 316, 320 Hoecken, Father, death of, 191 Hooper, Mormon acquaintance of La Barge’s, 334 Hopkins, Mormon acquaintance of La Barge’s, 334 Horrigan, Lieutenant, with troops on _Octavia_, 410 Hortiz, Eulalie, mother of Capt. La Barge, 11 Hortiz, Joseph Alvarez, 11 Hubbell, J. B. assistance acknowledged, vi cited, 284 mackinaw voyage of, in 1866, 283 Hunters for steamboats, 125 Hyde, Orson, Mormon preacher, 375 I Ice break up of 1856, 204 Ice gorges, 81 Illinois Central R. R. reaches Sioux City, 418 Improvement work on the Mo. r., 241 et seq. _Independence_, the, first steamboat on the Missouri, 90, 219 Indian, the, and the fur trade, 353 and the steamboat, 364 Indian agents, character of, 362 Indian question, 355 Indians attack the _Martha_, 179 attack the _Omega_, 148 danger to boats from, 123