United States Senate, 168, 205
United States Topographical Corps, 135
Ute Indians, 54, 56, 174
Uto-Aztecan migration, 52, 62, 65
Vanderburgh, Henry, 114
Vermont, 189
villages, 4, 5, 51, 59–60, 124, 150-151
— epidemics and, 70–71, 118–120, 152, 153
— police, 47, 82, 84-87
— prehistoric, 18, 19, 20
— white destruction of, 6, 152, 169–170, 183–184, 185, 187, 203
Virginia, 13, 32, 62
— buffalo herds in, 73, 74–75, 156, 214
Virginia City, Montana, 180
Vizcarra, Col. Antonio, 106
wagon trains, 13, 14, 15, 169, 201
— Colorado routes, 160–164, 168
— for hide hunting, 195, 197, 199
— Montana routes, 180-182
— Pacific routes, 5, 136-147
— Santa Fé Trail, 101–106, 109
Wainwright, Alberta, 215
Walker, Thomas, quoted, 75
Walking Coyote (Pend d'Oreille), 219–220, 222
Walla Walla Indians, 61, 80-81
warfare, 3, 51, 108, 151, 171
— Blackfoot, 65, 70, 71, 109, 113–115, 120-121
— Comanche-Mexican, 154-155
— hide-hunting invasions and, 196-199
— horses and, 47, 52, 53–56, 70
— of Ohio tribes, 78-79
— Sioux, 63, 168, 181-187
— slavery and, 60, 152, 154
— system of honors in, 61, 82
wagon train raids, 5–6, 104–106, 138–140, 144–145, 164
war dress, 81
white massacres of Indians, 6, 55, 105–106, 133, 152, 167, 169–170, 183–184, 187, 203, 211-212
Wovoka on, 209
War of 1812, 108
Wasatch Range, 32
Washington, D.C., 95, 206, 211
Washington, George, quoted, 14
Washington Territory, 158
Washita River, 183, 186
water, 13, 14, 142, 144
— Santa Fé Trail and, 102, 103, 137
Waterton Lakes, 71
Wayne, Gen. "Mad Anthony," 79
Westport, see Kansas City, Missouri
West Virginia, 14, 32, 74, 75, 214
white pudding, 92-93
White River, 93
Wichita, Kansas, 173
Wichita Indians, 64, 152, 154, 189
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma, 226
Wichita River, 183
Williams, Joseph, quoted, 138
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, 226
Wind River, 120
Wind River Shoshoni, 52, 57, 145
Winnebago Indians, 167
Winnipeg, Canada, 220
Wisconsin, 7, 62, 64, 74, 79
Wissler, Clark, cited, 37
wolves, 2, 23, 24, 42, 146
— fur trade, 90, 200-201
— women, 43, 45–46, 114, 149, 154, 209
— buffalo robemaking by, 107 (illus.), 115–116, 189
— métis, 129, 131
— nomadism and, 4, 47, 54, 57, 68
— prehistoric, 21
— rice farming by, 62
— wagon travel and, 142, 181-182
— white massacres and, 167, 170, 184, 187, 203, 211, 212
wood buffalo, 12, 223, 226
Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada, 226
Wood River Center, 163
Woodrow, Judge, 222
Wounded Knee Creek, 211-212