Carson City, 157-158. Carson County, 157. Cass, Lewis, 21, 23. Census of Indians, in 1880, 351. Central City, Colorado, 145. Central Overland, California, and Pike's Peak Express, 186. Central Pacific of California Railway, 220, 222; description of construction of, 325-335. Cherokee Indians, 28-29. Cherokee Neutral Strip, 29. Cheyenne, founding of, 301; consequence of, as a railway junction, 334. Cheyenne Indians, massacre of, at Sand Creek, 260-261; assigned lands in Indian Territory, 263; Medicine Lodge treaty with, 292-293; issue of arms to, 312-313; begin war against whites in 1868, 313; Custer's defeat of, 317-318. Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railway, 383. Chickasaw Indians, 28-29. Chief Joseph, leader of Nez Percé Indians, 363-365; military skill shown by, in retreat of Nez Percés, 366-367. Chief Lawyer, 363-364. Chinese labor for railway building, 326-327. Chippewa Indians, 26-27. Chittenden, Hiram Martin, 70-71, 93. Chivington, J. M., 229-230, 257; massacre of Indians at Sand Creek by, 260-261. Civil War, the West during the, 225 ff. Claims associations, 47. Clark, Governor, 20, 21, 25. Clemens, S. L., quoted, 186-187. Cody, William F., 184. Colley, Major, Indian agent, 255, 258, 262. Colorado, first settlements in, 142-145; movement for separate government for, 146 ff.; Senate bill for erection of territory of, 151, 154; boundaries of, 154; admission of, and first governor, 154-155; during the Civil War, 228-230. Colorado-Idaho plan, 151. Comanche Indians, 28, 124, 252, 253, 263, 267, 268, 292. Comstock lode, the, 157. Conestoga wagons, 41, 64. Connor, General Patrick E., 274. Cooke, Jay, railway promotion and later failure of, 376-377. Cooper, Colonel, 57. Council Bluffs, importance of, as a railway terminus, 334. Council Grove, rendezvous of Santa Fé traders, 59, 63-64. _Crédit Mobilier_, the, 335. Creek Indians, 28-29. Crocker, Charles, 220; activity of, as a railway builder, 327. Crook, General George, 368-369. Crow Indians, treaties of 1851 with, 123-124. Culbertson, Alexander, 200. Cumberland Road, 41, 215, 325. Custer, General, 304, 306, 307 ff., 310, 316, 359; commands in attack on Cheyenne, 316-318; romantic character of, and death in Sioux war, 362. Dakota, erection and growth of territory of, 166-167; Idaho created from a part of, 167. Dawes bill of 1887, for division of lands among Indians, 354-355; effect of, on Indian reserves, 356. Delaware Indians, settlement of, in the West, 24, 127. Demoine County created, 42. Denver, settlement of, 142; early caucuses and conventions at, 147-149. Denver and Rio Grande Railway, 383-384.