Sully, General Alfred, 268, 319. Surveys for Pacific railway, 192 ff. Sutter, John A., 104, 107-109. Sweetwater mines, 301. Telegraph system, inauguration of transcontinental, 185; freedom of, from Indian interference, 283. Ten Eyck, Captain, 280. Texas, railway building in, 375-376, 377 ff. Texas Pacific Railway, 375-376, 378, 379. Thayer, Eli, 129-130. Tippecanoe, battle of, 17. Topeka constitution, 133. Traders, wrongs done to Indians by, 234-235. Treaties with Indians, 19-20, 123-124, 292-293; fallacy of, 348-349. _See_ Indians. Tucson, 159, 160. Union Pacific Railway, the, 211 ff.; reason for name, 221; incorporation of company, 221; route of, 221-222; land grants in aid of, 222 (_see_ Land grants); financing of project, 222-223; progress in construction of, 298-299, 301; description of construction of, 325-335. Utah, territory of, organized, 101-102; boundaries of, 139; partition of Nevada from, 157 ff.; derivation of name from Ute Indians, 295. Victorio, Indian chief, 369. Vigilance committees in mining camps, 172. Villard, Henry, 145, 182, 186, 382-383. Vinita, terminus of Atlantic and Pacific road, 377. Virginia City, 158, 168-169. Wagons, Conestoga, 41, 64; overland mail coaches, 178-179; numbers employed in overland freight business, 190. Wakarusa War, 133-134. Walker, General Francis A., 285, 349. Walker, Robert J., 135. Washington, creation of territory of, 163; mining in, 164-166; a part of Idaho formed from, 166-167. Washita, battle of the, 317-318. Wayne, Anthony, 8, 17. Wea Indians, 30, 127. Wells, Fargo, and Company, 186, 190. Whipple, Lieut. A. W., survey for Pacific railway by, 206-207. White, Dr. Elijah, 75-76. White Antelope, Indian chief, 256, 260, 313. Whitman, Marcus, 72, 77, 80-81. Whitney, Asa, 193, 212. Willamette provisional government, 79-80. Williams, Beverly D., 149. Williamson, Lieut. R. S., survey by, 208. Wilson, Hill P., Indian trader, 314. Winnebago Indians, 26. Wisconsin, opening of, to whites, 21; territory of, organized, 44. Wounded Knee, Indian fight at, 370. Wyeth, Nathaniel J., 72. Wynkoop, E. W., 255-259, 306, 310, 312-313. Wyoming, territory of, 299, 302. Yankton Sioux, the, 25, 166, 264. Yerba Buena, village of, later San Francisco, 105. Young, Brigham, 93-94, 96, 97 ff., 206; made governor of Utah Territory, 101-102. * * * * * * Transcribers' note: Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.