Indians of the Missouri Valley, 351 Insurance rates, 276 Irrigation, Congressional Act of, 448 relation of, to Mo. r., 447 Irving, Washington, quoted, 109 _Island City_, the, wreck of, 385 J Jesuits honor La Barge’s memory, 440 Johnston, General A. S., 346 Joseph, Nez Percé chief, 392 captured, 393 K Kansas City, first railroad at 417 Kansas Indians, 351 Keelboat, advent of, on the Missouri, 90 description of, 102 Kernel of corn, the, 152 Kidder, Judge, tries murderer of Capt. Spear, 414 Killdeer Mountain, battle of, 374 Kimball, Heber, Mormon preacher, 335 Kipp, James, accompanies La Barge, 70 builds Fort Piegan, 225 L La Barge, A. G., assistance acknowledged, vi La Barge Avenue, St. Louis, 198 La Barge, Charles S., killed in steamboat explosion, 13, 124 La Barge city, 295 La Barge, Fort, established, 293 turned over to Am. F. Co., 327 La Barge, Harkness & Co., 270, 287 collapse of firm, 329 operations of, in 1862, 293 sued, 326 La Barge, John B., brother of Capt. La Barge, 13 member of firm L. H. & Co., 287 takes first steamboat to head of navigation, 219 LA BARGE, JOSEPH, Mo. r. pilot accompanies Pawnee war party, 45 acquaintance with the Mormons, 56 acquaintance with prominent men, 346, 350 adventure with Sioux war party, 38 among the Pawnees, 27 et seq. ancestry of, 2 et seq. an authority on Mo. r. history, 439 as an expert witness, 165 at Ford’s theater, 344 before Senate Committee, 344 birth of, 12, 13 captured by Pawnees, 160 carries express to Pierre, 44 changes during his lifetime, 441 childhood of, 13 claim against government, 323 contemplates retirement, 198, 426 death of, iv, 440 dictates memoirs, iii education of, 17 enters service Am. F. Co., 23, 56, 67, 200 enters service H. & St. Joe R. R., 241, 418 experience with Englishmen, 344 experience with rattlesnakes, 46 falls into an air hole, 50 funeral of, 440 grave of, 442 helps prepare list of steamboat wrecks, 438 in Cabanné-Leclerc affair, 24 et seq. in Custer campaign, 389 in meteoric shower, 40 in Montana, 331 et seq. in “opposition,” 59 et seq., 287 in Salt Lake City, 333 in Washington, 340 et seq. intimate knowledge of the river, 116 leaves service Am. F. Co., 56, 184, 199, 210, 214, 215 marriage of, 71 meets Dave McCann, 430 on the _Yellowstone_ in cholera scourge, 32 opposes Am. F. Co., 59, et seq., 287 personal characteristics, 443 politics of, 444 purchases the _Sonora_, 190 religion of, 444 remains with the Union, 253 rescues boat from ice gorge, 207 retires from the river, 447 serves apprenticeship in steamboating, 55 serves as interpreter, 22 skill as a swimmer, 53 works for city of St. Louis, 438