Profits in steamboat business, 276 Prou, Mr., botanist to Audubon, 152 Provost, Etienne, praises La Barge, 39 outwits a botanist, 152 settles championship, 128 wooding the Martha, 179 R Racing steamboats on the Mo. r., 123 Railroads, the enemy of the steamboat, 417 relation of, to Mo. r., 445 Randall, Fort, 367, 383 Rattlesnakes, 46 Ray, Captain, faithful conduct of, 337 Reed, H. W., Indian Agent, 300 advises La Barge to store annuities, 316 cited, 207 mem. Peace Com. 1866, 397 quoted, 314 Reeve, Colonel, makes Crows walk, 405 Rencontre, Zephyr, aids La Barge, 67 interprets for Peace Com. of 1866, 400, 402 Reno, Major, in Custer campaign, 381, 391 Rice, Fort, 260, 374 _Robert Campbell_, the, voyage of, in 1863, 298 et seq. Roe, John J., organizes Diamond R. Co., 328 relations with La Barge, 325 Rolette, agt. Am. F. Co. at Fort Union, 320 S Sail, use of, on keelboats, 106 Sailors, lost from the _Nimrod_, 160 _Saint Ange_, launching of, 184 voyage of, in 1851, 189 Saint Joseph, first railroad at, 417 Saint Louis, great fire of, 185 Salaries on steamboats, 271 _Saluda_, the, explosion of, 124 _Sam Gaty_, the, attack on, 251 Sanders, W. F., assistance acknowledged, vi counsel against La Barge, Harkness & Co., 328 Sarpy, Peter A., arrests Leclerc, 26 in charge of Cabanné’s post, 49 Scenery of the Missouri r., 83 Sediment carried by the Mo. r., 78 Sheridan, General, plans campaign of 1876, 378 Sherman, General, Commissioner to treat with Indians, 377 gives La Barge a contract, 410 _Shreveport_, the, impressed by General Sully, 385 voyage of, in 1863, 302 Sibley, General, in charge of operations against Sioux Indians in 1863, 370 Sioux City, first railroad at, 418 important river port, 419 Sioux City and Pacific R. R. reaches Sioux City, 418 Sioux Indians, 351 capture Grosventre herd, 304 non-treaty, 377 power of, broken, 377 Sire, Joseph A., 140 master of the _Omega_, 141 master of the _Nimrod_, 154 outwits inspectors, 144, 157 Sire log book, the, 139 Slope of Missouri river, 83 Smallpox among the Blackfeet, 229 Smith, Green Clay, Governor of Montana Territory, 409 Smith, Joseph, death of, 57, 169 Snags in Missouri river, 80, 119, 421 Snagboats, early, 422 Sounding the channel, 120 Sparring over sand bars, 121 Spear, Capt. W. D., killed by a sentinel, 412 takes passage on the _Octavia_, 411 _Spread Eagle_, the, rams the _Emilie_, 289 Stanley, General, arrests Custer, 431 Statistics of steamboat traffic, 217, 275