Gilpin, William, first governor of Colorado Territory, 155; quoted, 225; responsibility assumed by, during the Civil War, 228-229.
Gold, discovery of, in California, 108-113; in Pike's Peak region, 141-142; in the Black Hills, 359-361.
Great Salt Lake Valley Carrying Company, 176.
Greeley, Horace, western adventures of, 145, 179, 182.
Grosventre Indians, treaties of 1851 with, 123-124.
Guerrilla conflicts during the Civil War, 230-233.
Hand-cart incident in Mormon emigration, 100-101.
Holladay, Ben, 186-190, 284; losses from Indians by, 250.
Hungate family, murder of, by Indians, 253.
Hunter, General, in charge of Department of Kansas during Civil War, 230-231.
Idaho, proposed name for Colorado, 151, 154; establishment of territory of, 166-167.
Independence, town of, 63; outfitting post of traders, 71; Mormons at, 89-90.
Indian agents, position of, in regard to Indian affairs, 304-305; question regarding, as opposed to military control of Indians, 342-343.
Indian Bureau, creation of, 31; transference from War Department to the Interior, 123; history of the, 341 ff.
Indian Commissioners, Board of, created in 1869, 345.
Indian Territory, position of Indians in, during the Civil War, 240-241; breaking up of, following allotment of lands to individual Indians, 357.
Indians, numbers of, in United States, 14; governmental policy regarding, 16 ff.; Monroe's policy of removal of, to western lands, 18-19; treaties of 1825 with, 19-20; allotment of territory among, on western frontier, 20-30; troubles with, resulting from Oregon, California, and Mormon emigrations, 119-123; fresh treaties with at Upper Platte agency in 1851, 123-124; further cession of lands in Indian Country by, in 1854, 127; treatment of, by Arizona settlers, 162-163; danger to overland mail and express business from, 187-188, 250; Digger Indians, 203-204; the Sioux war in Minnesota, 234 ff.; effect of the Civil War on, 240-242; causes of restlessness of, during Civil War, 234 ff.; antagonism of, aroused by advance westward of whites, 244-252; conditions leading to Sioux war, 264 ff.; war with plains Sioux (1866), 273-283; the discussion as to proper treatment of, 284-288; appointment of Peace Commissioner of 1867 to end Cheyenne and Sioux troubles, 289-290; Medicine Lodge treaties concluded with, 292-293; report and recommendations of Peace Commission, 296-298; interval of peace with, 302-303; continued troubles with, and causes, 304 ff.; war begun by Arapahoes and Cheyenne in 1868, 313; war of 1868, 313-318; President Grant appoints board of civilian Indian commissioners, 323, 341 ff.; railway builders' troubles with, 328-329; question of civilian or military control of, 342-344; Board of Commissioners, appointed for (1869), 345; Congress decides to make no more treaties with, 348; mistaken policy of treaties, 348-349; census of, in 1880, 351; agricultural fairs for, 352-353; individual ownership of land by, 354-357; effect of allotment of lands among, on Indian reserves, 356-357; end of Monroe's policy, 357; last struggles of the Sioux, Nez Percés, and Apaches, 361-371.