La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de, birth and childhood, 1-3; enters army, 3; expedition against Deerfield, 4-7; raid on St John's, 7; serves in War of Spanish Succession, and is made lieutenant, 8; returns to Canada and enters fur trade, 9; determines to find the Western Sea, 14; marries Mlle Dandonneau, 14; commands trading-post on Fort Nipigon, 15; granted monopoly of Western fur trade as a means of financing his Western expedition, 17-19; his first journey of exploration, 20-32; returns to Montreal, 33-5; starts again for the West, 36; refuses to revenge himself on the Sioux for the murder of his son, 46; with the Assiniboines, 49-54; with the Mandans, 55-68; falls ill, 69; returns to Assiniboines, 70; at Fort La Reine, 71, 72, 74, 92; returns to Montreal, 94; given the rank of captain and decorated, 95; dies, 96; 112.
Mandans, tribe of Indians, 44-67, 72, 73, 89.
Ochagach, his story of the Western Sea, 15-16, 19.
Parkman, Francis, his description of Bow Indians, 81-3.
Rocky Mountains, explorers reach, 85, 93, 108, 109.
Saint-Pierre, Legardeur de, 96, 102-3, 104, 106-7, 109-11.
Subercase, leader of raid on St John's, 8.
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