Fort Dodge (town), alarm near, 20; reference to, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34, 37, 39, 59, 99, 102, 125, 151, 159, 160, 178, 180, 184, 189, 196, 211, 215, 244, 266, 272, 295, 301, 305, 309; company raised at, 35; settlements northwest of, 38; news of depredations taken to, 92, 93; attempt to organize relief party at, 93; plan of Gardner to make trip to, 96, 97; news of massacre carried to, 124; organization of relief expedition at, 159-169; arrival of Howe and Wheelock at, 162; arrival of Webster City company at, 164, 165; departure of relief expedition from, 170; return of part of men to, 199; return of members of relief expedition to, 213, 214 Fort Kearney, 277 Fort Laramie, 21, 277 Fort Leavenworth, 277 Fort Pierre, 82, 277 Fort Randall, 18 Fort Ridgely, establishment of, 18; reference to, 35, 72, 130, 138, 139, 143, 147, 158, 178, 179, 225, 241, 242, 246, 249, 256; news of massacre carried to, 122-127; sending of relief expedition from, 128-131; arrival of relief expedition from, 153-158 Fort Snelling, 17, 18, 280, 281 Fort Wayne (Indiana), 272 Franklin County, 54 Freeborn, William, 39 Fremont, John C., 45 Frontier, advance of, 1-8; disreputable elements on, 11, 23; failure of government to protect, 12; lack of protection on, 17-25; settlements on, in 1857, 37-41; winter of 1856-1857 on, 42, 43; plan for attacks on, 69, 74; efforts to secure protection of, 260; tribute to services of pioneers on, 268; disappearance of, 269 Frost, Nathaniel, 58, 153; trip of, to Slocum’s farm, 135 Fuller House, 240, 242 Funk, A. B., 265, 316 Funk family, 164 Gaboo, Joe, 153, 156, 300 Galbraith, Agent, 254 “Galena” (steamboat), 244 Gales, John, 167 Game, disappearance of, 10, 11, 42 Gar Lake, 160 Gardner, Abbie, 47, 103, 113, 121, 228, 234, 245, 246, 267; taking of, as captive, 103, 104; early experiences of, in captivity, 111, 112; burden borne by, 216, 217; attitude of, toward captivity, 220; history of ransom of, 232-244; price paid for ransom of, 237; journey of, from Yellow Medicine to St. Paul, 240-242; ceremony in honor of, 242, 243; war bonnet presented to, 243; return of, to friends in Iowa, 244; marriage of, 270 (see Sharp, Mrs. Abbie Gardner) Gardner, Eliza, 47, 57, 121, 133, 195, 244, 270 Gardner, Francis M., 118 Gardner, Mary, 47; marriage of, 50