Steamboat, the, and the Indians, 364 architectural beauty of, 111 description of, 109 et seq. in the Indian wars, 382 in the Nez Percé campaign, 392 last at Fort Benton, 420 navigation of the Mo. r., importance of, iv trade on Mo. r., rapid growth of, 174, 216, 274 wrecks, causes of, 421 voyages up the Mo. r., 127 Stevens, I. I., makes treaty with Blackfeet, 236, 359 Stinger, Andy, hero of the Tobacco Garden, 307, 311 Stony Lake, battle of, 372 Storm injures the _Nimrod_, 164 Storms on the Missouri, 84 Stuart, Fort, 293 Stuart, James, English traveler, 4 Stuart, James, Montana pioneer, 267, 268, 271 Sublette & Campbell, 36 Suit against La Barge, Harkness & Co., 328 Sully, Fort, 373 Sully, General, campaign of 1863, 371, 372 campaign of 1864, 374 impresses the _Shreveport_, 318 opinion of Col. Dimon, 262 quoted, 270, 361 uses steamboats in his campaigns, 385 Survey of the Missouri r., 436 Suter, Capt, C. R., purchases the _Octavia_, 425 T Tecumseh, Fort, 137 Terry, General Alfred, in campaign of 1876, 378 on La Barge’s boat, 390 Terry, Lieutenant, English officer, investigates death of Capt. Spear, 414 Terry, M. M., writes account of voyage of _Far West_, 388 Thomas, Col., Quartermaster in St. Louis, 410 Thompson, C. W., Indian agent, 385 Thompson, Fort, 385 Tobacco Garden, affair at, 305 et seq. Transportation by water and rail, 420 Treaty of Fort Laramie, 358, 366 with Blackfeet, 237, 259 Treaty system, abuses of, 356 _Trover_, the, wreck of, 285 U Union, Fort, 139 Union Pacific Bridge at Omaha opened, 418 Union Pacific R. R., Lincoln’s interest in, 244 reaches Ogden, 419 Upson, Gad E., Indian agent, 322 Utah Northern R. R. enters Montana, 419 V Vallandingham, C. L., 244 Virginia City, Mont., 272 Volunteers, U. S., 259 Voyage, last, to Fort Benton, 436, 437 Voyageurs, 108 W Wall, Nicholas, relations with Capt. La Barge, 258, 295, 325, 326 War with Mexico, 171 Warping over rapids, 121 Warren, General, on the upper Missouri, 208 Weather, influence of, on navigation of the river, 86 _Western Engineer_, the, 91, 382 Whirlpools on the Missouri, 122 Whitestone Hill, battle of, 373 Winnebago Indians, transported by steamboat, 384 Wooding steamboat, 118 Wooding at Crow creek in 1847, 179 Wounded Knee, battle of, 366 Wrecks of steamboats on Mo. r., causes of, 421 list of, 438 Wright, Geo. B., agent for the Blackfeet, 405 Wyeth, Nathaniel J., transports furs by bullboat, 101 Y Yankee Jack, adventure of, 129 mentioned, 282 Yanktonais, the, experience of, with Peace Com. of 1866, 399 Yawl, importance of, to steamboat, 54, 91 _Yellowstone_, the, first steamboat on the upper river, 22, 136 cholera on, 32 description of, 112 public interested in voyage of, 138