DeFrance, A. H., 621 *
DeT.aMar, F., 349, 353
T'eLnno, William W., 320
Dclisle, William, 11
Del Xorte, 558
Del Nnrte System, 585
Delta, 694
De Munn, Jules, 167, 168
Denver, 98, 118, 141, 143. 193, 200, 203
223, 234, 237. 2.39, 244, 245, 261, 262,
287, 304, 343-4, 356, 358-9, 366-7", 369,'
370, 435, 441, 444-8, 463, 472, 631-2
706, 709, 749, 755
Denver & Intermountain Railway, 526,
528 . ' '
Denver & Interurban Railroad, 528
Denver & Middle Park Railway Company,
526
Denver i; New Orleans Railway Company,
523
Denver & Northwestern Eailway, 528
Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company,
4.55-7, 517-20
Denver & Santa Fe Railway and Tele-
graph Compan}', 517-8
Denver & South Park Eailway Companv,
520
Denver, Boulder & Western Eailway
Company, 526
Denver, Central & Georgetown Railroad
Company, 510
Denver City Town Company, 673
Denver, first cabin on site of pioneer city,
216
Denver, Georgetown & Utah Railway
Company, 519-20
Denver Home Guards, 384
Denver, James W., 233
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Rail-
way Company, 527
Denver, Leadville & Gunnison Railway
Company, 521
Denver, ilarshall cic BoiiMer Railway
Company, 517, 523
Denver Medical Association, 673
Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway
Company, 527
Denver Pacific Company, 510-16
Denver Pacific Eailway & Telegraph
Company, 508, 513
Denver Pacific Eailway Company, 452
Denver Reservoir & Irrigation Companv,
.582
Denver, South Park & Pacific Railway
Company, 520-1
Denver, South Park A: Rio Grande Rail-
road, 518
Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Railroad
Company, 524
Denver, Texas & (iidf Railroad Company,
524
Denver Union Stuck Yards Company,
611-2 ^ ''
Denver, Utah & Pacific Railway Com-
pany, 523
Denver, We.stern & Pacific Com])any, 523
Departure of First Regiment, 731
Dickson, T. C, 224
Dillon, Sidney, 510
Distinguished members of the bar, 663
District courts, 652, 657
Ditch Companies — Fall River, Rocky
Mountain anil Consolidated Companies,
272; Nevada Cherry Creek and Platte
Companies, 273.
Ditch No. 10, 576-7
Divide Creek, 20
Dix, John A., 504
Dodd. Theodore H., 381, 404
Dodge, Francis S., 687
Dodge, Granville M.. 428-9, 505
Dodge, Henry, 135; biography, 151
DoUoff, L. W., 620
Dolores county, 543
Pominguez, C, 617
Doolittle, James R., 470
Dorsett, Folsom, 234
Douglas county, 366
Dow, L., 279
Downing, Jacob, 382, 431
Dry Creek Diggings (see Placer Camp)
Duff, James, 577
Durango, 560, 697, 709
INDEX
XXVll
Durango Towu Company, The, 698
Durant, Thomas C, 510
Earl, J. B., 279
Early court practice, 651
Eaton, Benjamin II., portrait, 400 ; 490,
621
Eaton, Isaac, 507
Eayre, George S., 405
Ebert, F. J., 502, 620
Economic history of Colorado, 757
Educational institutions — University of
Colorado, 617-20; State Agricultural
College, 620-4; School of Mines, 624-7;
Institute for the Blind and Mute, 627-
9; State Normal schools, 629-30; State
Industrial School, 630-1; Industrial
School for girls, 632 ; State Home for
Dependent and Neglected Children,
632; Soldiers and Sailors' Home,
632-3; Colorado Insane Asylum, 633-5;
Colorado Penitentiary, 635-6
Educational institutions, 699
Elbert county, 463
Elbert, Samuel H., portrait, 224; 370,
376, 405, 425, 428, 574-5, 621
El Dorado City, 241, 264
Election — first in Jefferson terri-
tory, 342; defeat of state proiect
342-3
Elizabethtown, 265
Elk River Irrigation & Construction Com-
pany, 589
Elmer, E. P., 405
El Paso, 240, 264, 267
El Paso county, 358, 366
El Paso Town Company, 240
El Pueblo, 181
Emmerson, James, 353
Empire Canal, 585
Empire City, 286
Empire Reservoir, 582
Englewood, 214
Equal suffrage bill passed 1893, 726
-Escalante Hills, 21
Establishment of public schools, 699
Evans, 453-4
Evans, iia, 215
Evans, John, poj'trait. 96; 370, 373,
415-6, 418-9,. 472. 475, 483, .500, .504,
508, 510, 514, 518-20, 523, 708
Evans Journal, 454
Evans, William G., 527
Everett. Fram-is E., 626
Excelsior Canal, 583
Eyster, Christian S., 654
Fairplay, 198, 256, 257
Fall Leaf, 206
Fandango Dollars, 713
Farnsworth, John F., 313
Farrer, J. P., 335
Federal Cen.sus of 1910, 756
Feld, J., 617
Fellows, A. L., 593
Felt, Zeiih. Charles, 527
Ferguson. Levi, 335
Ferrell, J. M., 343, 347
Fields, William, 279
Fillmore, John S., 379
Financial crisis of 1893. 710
First Colorado in capture of the city of
JIanila, 732
First Colorado Infantrv. 640
First Colorado mortality list, 740
First Colorado returns home, 738
First election of supreme court judges,
659
First enduring medical society, 673
First physician, 666
First portentous labor-strike, 692
First Regiment of Colorado Infantry,
730
Fisher, George W., 335
Fisher, Morton C, 379
Fisher, T. W., 240
Fisk. A. C, 452
Fitzgerald, J., 352
Fitzpatrick, Thomas, 177
Flickinger, J. R., 629
Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad, 526
Fontaine qui Bouille, 156, 159
Ford, James H., 381, 404
Forest Reserves, 609
Forsvthe, George A., 431-3
Fort" Bent, 122, 123, 125, 129, 155, 667
Fort Bent (New), 179, ISO, 211
Fort Collins, 220, 240, 457, 620, 709
Fort Collins lamb, 612
Fort Davy Crockett, 186
Fort Garland, 190 ,
Fort Lancaster, 182, 183
Fort Laramie, 186, 187
Port Lupton, 183, 571
Fort Lyon, 190
Fort Lyons Canal, 584, 585
Fort Massachusetts, 23, 129, 161, 190
Fort Misery, 186
Fort Morgan, 96
Fort Pueblo, 181
Fort St. Vrain, 116, 184, 185, 571
Fort ^'asquez, 182
Fort William, 186
Fort Wise, 190
Fort Worth & Denver City Raihvay Com-
pany, 524
Fountain City, 24. 264, 292, 329
Fountain City Bridge Company, 272
Fountain Colony of Colorado, 456
Fountain county, 358
Fountain Creek, 170, 173, 174
Fourth Intantry, 688
Fourth of July, fiist in Rocky Mountain
Region, 98
Fowler, Jacob, 171, 188
Fraeb, Henry, 186
France, Matthew, 628
Frazier, Jesse, 566
Frazier, R. J., 350, 352 â–
Fremont county, 174, 366
Fremont 's E.vpeilitions — first expedition
starts (June, 1842), 115; reaches Fort
St. Vrain, 116; returns to St. Louis,
117; second expedition starts (May,
1843), 117; enters Logan county,
Colorado, 118; encamps on Cherry
Creek (Denver), 118; encamps near
the 41st parallel (northern Colorado
houndary), 120; reenters Colorado on
return trip (June, 1844), 120; de-
scends into Middle Park, 121; leaves
Puetio and moves down the Arkansas,
122; disbanded at St. Louis, 122; third
expedition organized (summer of
1845), 123; leaves Fort Bent, 124;
crcs-es Grand river toward Ftah, 125;
fourth expedition leaves West|)ort
(October. 1848), 125; disaster in .San
Luis Valley, 125; Fremont reaches the
California 'coast, (April 18. 1H49), 127.
Fremont, John C, 24, 572, 596
French, Adnah. 224, 226, 459, 460
XXVUl
INDEX
French District, 258
Frj'ing-pan Giileh, 283
Fry, Joshua, 41
Fur traders aud trading posts, 163-92
Gale, William H., 654
Gantt and Blackwell, 174, 175
Garrison, A. F., 338
Georgetown, 264, 284, 448, 533
Georgetown, Breckenridge & Leadville
Railway Company, 517
Georgia Gulch, 2S4
Gest, J. H., 345
Gibson District, 258
Gibson, Frank B., 527
Gibson, Thomas, 247, 264, 288, 334, 336,
338
Giles, Charles, 274
Gilmore, C, 332
Gilpin county, 366, 440, 448. 530
Gilpin, William, portrait, 64; 117, 157,
158, 201, 319-20, 363-4, 367, 370, 372,
378-80, 382-4. 400-3, 47.5, 617, 639
Glenn, Hugh, 171
Glenwood Sjirings, 694, 709
Gold, discovery of, in Colorado, 193, 207
Gold Hill and Gregory Roads, 271
Gold King Mine, 546
Gold mining at Cripple Creek, 746
Gold Run (see Deadwood Diggings)
Gold, value of mined in Colorado (1860-
70), 449
Golden, 624. 630, 641
Golden (Arapahoe City), 237, 249
Golden City, 266, 289, 361, 366, 309-70,
439
Golden City (see St. Charles City)
Golden Ditch, 579
Golden Gate, 269
Golden, Thomas, 206
Golden. Thomas L., 249
Golden', Thomas !:<.. 353
Golden Town Company, 266
Goldrick. O. J., 442
Goode, William H., 338
Gorsline, William R., 654
Goss, Jl., 617
Gothelph, Isaac, 585
Gotthelf. Isaac, 629
Goudv. Frank C, 569
Gould, Jay, 516, 521
Graham, Benjamin, 461
Graham, Hiram J., 296-8, 319, 327
Graham, Thomas J., 618
Grand county. 462-3
Grand Junctujn, 131, 290. 693, 709
Grand river, 20
Grand River Canal Company, 587
Grand Valley Highline Canal. 587
Granite, 283
Grant, James B., portrait. 368; 490.
Grant, Ulysses S.. 484-7, 575
Great American Desert, 550
"Great Desert," 112, 113
Great Plains Storage System. 584
Great AVestern Railway' Company. 526
Greeley, 452, 454, 456, 629, 709"
Greeley Colony (first "dry" Colorado
community), 453
Greeley Colony, 574. 576-7
Greeley District, 556-7
Greeley, Horace, 452
Greeley-Pondre irrigation project, 582
Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific Railway
Company, 523, 526
"Greeley Tribune," 453
Cireen City, 454
CJreen, D. S., 454
Green, James S., 297, 318
Green, William E., 527
Green, William H., 272, 291, 292, 404
Greenwood county, 463, 447
Greenwood, W. H., 424
Gregory, David, 3.55
Gregg, tteorge W., 240
Gregg, Josiah, 200, 671
Gregg narrative, 671
Gregory District, 254, 256, 273-4
Gregory, John H., 250-2, 530
Gregory Lode, 252, 254, 530
Grev. James A., 300, 355
Griffith, D. T., 265
CJrifKth, George F., 265
Gros Ventres, 33. 146-9
Grow, Galusha A., 297, 305-7
Growth of population during '80s, 709
Guadalupe, 23
Ciaudaloupe county, 366
Guggenheim, Simon, 490, 491
Gunnison, 461, 630, 695, 709
Gunnison Canon, 131
Gunnison country, (see Western Slope)
Gunnison, J. W., 461
Ciunnison, John W., 23, 128, 131, 132,
498, 572
Gunnison river, 20, 130
Ciunnison Tunnel irrigation proiect, 586-
7, 593
Hadley, William L., 488
Hahn's Peak, 695
Hall. B. F., 319, 652, 677
Hall. Frank, 371. 374, .566
Hallett, Moses, 653
Hambleton, Josiah W., 382
Hamilton, 462
Hamilton City, 283
Hamind. William, 617
Hammond. iJeade, 587
Handy Ditch. 577, 579
Harliour. R. R., 405
Harding, Stephen H., 653
Hardscrabble Creek, 177
Harlan, James, 482
Hartley, William, 224, 227
Hartsel, Samuel, 598
Hartsel Station, 59
Hatch, William H., 623
Hatcher, John. 571, 585
Hawes, Jesse, 629
Hayden, F. V.. 535
Hayes, Maurice, 539
Haynes, H. N., 593
Heail. Lafayette. 23, 572
Healthfulness in the far west, 571
Hempstead, Dr., 667
Henderson, J. D., 343
Henrylyn irrigation project, 582
Hicklin. Alexander, (Zan.), 24
Hicks, George. Sr.. 211
Higginbotham, Josejih (Buckskin Joe),
Highland (North Denver), 262
Hifhline Canal, 582, 584
Hill, Nathaniel P., 438, 490, 491 531
625-6 '
Hinman, Josiah, 223
Hinsdale county, 463
Hi.'-torian of Long's expedition, 667
Holiack, John, 166
Hofier Brothers, 611
Hogg, Herschel M., 492
INDEX
XXIX
Holbrook Canal, 584
HoUadav Overland Mail & Express Co.,
4^(3, 502, 503
Holly, Carrie S., 727
Hollv, Charles F., 321, 466-7
Holly, William, (503
Holmes, Mrs. James H., 217
Home Supply Ditch, 579
Hopkins, F., 279
Horse Creek Beservoir, 584
Horsfal, David, 255
Horsfal Lode, 255
Horticulture. 557, 5(i5-7
Howe, Marshall S., 403
Hottes, A. T., Ii21
Hoyt, Samuel N., 634
Huddert, William, 185
Huerfano county, 366
Huerfano river, 52, 105
Hughes, Bela M., 488, 490, 508, 510
Hughes, Charles J., 490, 527
Humbell, Auraria, 276
Hunt, A. C. portrait, 160; 370, 375, 518
Hunt, W. P., 166
Huntsville, 269
Idaho Springs, 264
III. lings, James W., 384
Illinois Gulch, 254
Increase of jiopulation after ailmission
to Union, 692
Indian tragedy, 685
Indians — French names for western
tribes, 32-3; Du Tisne (Du Tissenet),
34-5; wars with (in the '60s), 411-33;
first open depredations in Colorado.
413
Industrial school for girls, 632
Institute for the Blind and Mute, 627-9
Irrigation — Ancient and Spanish irrigat-
ing ditches, 570; first American ditch,
571; San Luis (Mexican) ditch, 572;
first irrigation congress, held in Denver,
574; development of irrigation from
1870 to 1880, 576; modern systems of
irrigation, 578; the "District Irriga-
tion Law." (1901), 580; in the Arkan-
sas valley, 583 ; San Luis valley, 585 ;
Grand River valley, 587; Colorado irri-
gation legislation, 589-93; state legis-
lation regarding, 645-6 ; 757
Irrigation Congress (first in the United
States), 574
Irrigation Districts, 590-2
Jackson county, 358, 561
Jackson. George A., 249. 251, 530
Jackson Lake Reservoir, 581
James, Edwin, 667
James, Edwin, 92; "His Account," 93,
113; biography, 110
Janise, Antoine, 240
Janise. Nicholas, 240
Jaraniillo, Juan. 7, 8, 9
Jarvis, George E., 625
Jefferson City, 257
Jefferson county, 358, 366
Jefferson Medical Society, 669, 673
Jenkins, John W., 371
Jessup, A. E., 92
Jewett, M. M., 234
Johnson, Andrew, 475-81
Johnson, Charles Scott, 527
Johnson, Colorado, 276
Johnson, S. J., 353
Johnson, Sanders W., 355
Johnson, W. F., 5US, 510, 514
Jones & Cartright, 263
Jones, J. S., 617
Jonesville, 462
Judiciary department, 649
Julesburg, 435
Jurisdiction of courts, 657
Justices of the peace, 657
Kansas Pacific Company, 510-16
Kansas tribe (French "Canez"), 32
Kassler, George W., 520
Kearny, Stephen W., 153, 154, 156
Kehler, John H., 347, 355
Kelley, A. G., 279
Kelley, Malinda Catherine (first Ameri-
can native of Colorado), 177
Kelley 's Mining District, 279, 281
Kennedy, J. L., 259
Kern. Edward M., 123
Kiugslniry, E. W., 405
Kingsbury, Gaines P., 136, 138, 141, 143
Kinua & Nye, 238
Kinna, John, 238
Klock, Frances S., 727
Kountze, Charles B., 520
Kountze, Luther, 508
Kroenig, William, 268
La Bruyere, Fabree de, 39
La Clede, Pierre, 42 ,
La Glorieta Pass, battle of (Gettysburg
of the southwest), 394-6
La Harpe, Benard de, 35-6
La Honton. Baron, 27
La Junta, 709
Lake City, 096
Lake county,. 366. 440, 448. 537
Lake Loveland Reservoir, 580
Lalande, Baptist, 65, 165
Lamar, 584
Lamar Canal, 583
Lane. James H., 408, 472, 473
LaPlata county, 463
LaPorte. 240, '435
Larick, Freilerick, 585
Larimer & Weld Canal, 576-7-8, 580
Larimer county, 366, 440
Laiimer County Ditch, 578
Larimer. William, 405
Larimer, William, Jr., 234, 235, 237, 320,
329, 331
Las Animas county, 107, 438
Latham, 452
Lathan, W. H., 003
Laurette, 284
Lauzon, F. C. 586
Lawrence, Charles A., 234, 347
Lawrence Co., 224
Leadville, 58, 281, 287, 539-40-1, 692. 7.50
Leadville District, 540
Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Stage and
Express Co.. 263
Leavenworth, Henry, 404
Leavenworth, Jesse H., 404-0
Le Doux, Maurice, 174
Lee, Abraham, 279, 280
Leech. Heurv C, 474-5
Left Hand, 418, 421
Legislation — Unwritten codes of the
aborigines, 637-8; pioneer "laws,"
639; organic act of the territory, 639;
legislation of the territorial assembly,
639-41; Colorado a state. 641; its con-
stitution and legislation, 641-8
Lemen, Lewis E., 666
XXX
INDEX
Le Moine. Jean Baptii?te (Sieur de Bien-
ville), 36
Lewis, Meriwether, 45
Lilley, John G., 003
Little Beaver, 206
Little Dry Creek, 2U
Little Giant, (gold lode), 4(30
Little Raven, 422
Little Pittsburgh, 692
Little Pittslnirg Mine, .539
Littleton, 516
Livestock — Introduction into the south-
west, 594; Texas cattle brought to
Pike's Peak (1860), 597; first stock
laws, 597-,'i; more cattle from Texas,
59.S (iOl; Colorado cattlemen organized,
602-5 ; clash between sheepmen and
cattlemen, 605-7; organization of the
Colorado cattle growers ' association,
605; "beginning of the end'' of the
free open range, 608 ; National Live
Stock Association organized, 608 ;
dwindling of the cattle industry, 609;
changes in the character of the live-
stock, 610; marketing of livestock, 611-
2; livestock shows, 613; number and
value of live stock, 614
Livestock industry, 755
Location of the seat of Colorado 's state
government, 700
Logan county, 118, 417
Logan, Samuel M., 382
Long Expedition — Departs from St.
Louis. 92; organized for march to the
Rocky mountains, 93; reaches Pawnee
villages, 94; enters Northeastern
Colorado, 96 ; Long 's Peak, 96 ; visits
site of Denver, 98; first sight of Pike's
Peak, 100; reaches the localities of
Colorado City and Manitou, 102 ; first
to scale Pike 's Peak, 103 ; at the sites
of Canon City and Pueblo, 104-5; de-
scends the Arkansas river, and leaves
Colorado, 107 ; reunite<l detachments
disband at Cape Girardeau, 110; a
summer excursion, 112
Long, Stephen Harriman (biography),
Longmont, 453, 709
"Longmont Sentinel," 453
Long's Peak, 96, 111, 112
Los Juntas, 22
Louden Ditch, 577, 579
Louisiane, 2, 40, 42; acquired by the
U. S. 44; exploring expeditions, 45;
the Pike expedition, 45-69; its identi-
fication with Burr's conspiracy. 71-
90; Long's expedition, 91-113; Fre-
mont's expeditions, 114-134
Loveland & Greeley Ditch, 577, 579
Loveland, W. A. H., 474, 502, 505, 515,
517, 625-6
Lovell & Reed, 597
Lowe, T. H., 545
Lower Latham Ditch, 577
Lucero, M., 621
Lupton, Lancaster P., 182
Lynch, J. T., 621
Magnolia, 534
Mailie, Charles, 382
Malgares, Don Pacundo, 50-1
Mallet Bros., 38
Mallory, Robert, 470
Mam Creek, 20
Manitou, 102, 119
Manitou & Pike's Peak Railway, 526
Manufacturing, 755
Manufacturing and commercial enter-
prises, 698
Marcy, R. B., 159-62, 185, 572
Market value of silver mined during '80s,
710
Marshall Reservoir, 582
Martinez, Antonio, 23
Mayer, Leopold, 585
Maxwell, James P., 628
McAfee, Henry, 338, 349, 350
McAfee, H. H., 352
McAlister. Henry, 455
McClure, William P., 344
McCook, Edward M., portrait, 193; 370,
375-7, 485, 575
McCook, Mrs. Edward M., 715
McCook, Governor, message on female suf-
frage, 716
McCoy, H., 332, 334
McCoy, N. B., 629
McCreery, J. W., 629
McDonald, Jesse P.. 490, portrait, 649;
753
McDougall, George, 211
McFadding, William, 232
McGaa, William, 224, 226, 234
McGaa, William Denver, 276
Mclntire, Albert W., 490, portrait, 529
McKnight, John, 173
.McLain, W. D., 262, 405
McLain's Battery, 405, 407
McLean, Samuel,' 353, 360
McNulty, Gulch, 281
Mead, Elwood, 563
Mears. Otto, 448, 697
Jledical officers with Cols. Henry Dodge
and Stc]iheu W. Kearny, 667
Medical jirofession. 666
Meeker, 694
Meeker, Nathan ('., 452, 685
Merrick, John L., 247, 350, 352
Merritt, Wesley, 690
Meyer, W. H.,"629
Middle Park, 462, 561
.Middleton, Robert, 268
Military Expeditions — Dodge expedition,
135-53; Kearny expedition, 153-7; Gil-
pin expedition, 157-9; Marcy expedi-
tion, 159-62
Militia orilered out, 714
Milk Creek tragedy, 689
Miller, James W.,"280
Miller, John D., 218
Miller, Josefih, 166
Mills, J. Warner, 644, 647
Jlills, W. F. R.. 529
Miners' Association, 692
Miners strikes, 749
Mining, 698
Mining camp disturbance of Crinnle
Creek, 715
Mining disturbances, 715
Mining for the precious metals, 756
Mining of silver, 710
Missouri City, 265
Missouris Massacre Spaniards, 17
Moer, Samuel, 379
Moffat, David H., 508, 514, 520, 527
Moffat Road (see Denver, Northwestern
& Pacific Railway Company)
Mautana City, 223, 224, ,227, 229 237
Montana Town Co., 22.3
Monte Vista, 632-3
Monte Vista Canal, 585
Montezuma Valley, 560
INDEX
XXXI
Montezuma Valley Irrigation District,
588
Montzunia Valley Irrigation System, 588
Montrose, 694, 709
Montrose and Uneonipahgre Dileh Com-
])'-ir.y, 11*14
Monument Creek, 101
Mooers, J. H., 431-3
Moonlight, Thomas, 428
Moore, John C, 288, 345
Moore, Mark A., 353
Morgan, Charles H., 3(il
Morgan, < harles L., 313
Morgan county, 96, 579
Mormons, arrive at the Pueblo, 177;
establish family life in Colorado, 177
Morrison, Arthur R., 644
Morrison, Robert S., 637
Morrison, William, 65, 165
Morrison, William M., 166
Mortality list of the First Colorado, 740
Morton, G. W., 405
Moscoso (see Luis Moseoso de Alvarado)
Moses, Thomas, Jr., 405
Mount Pisgah Mining District, 545
Mount Vernon, 269
Mountain City, 286, 290
Mountain City, (see Central City)
Mountain county, 358
Mountaineer gold lode, 460
Munson, Hugh, 621
National Live Stock Association, 60S
National Packing Company, 612
Negro District, 258
Nevada, 448
Nevada Gulch, 254
New England Colony, 453
New Fort Bent (see Fort Bent)
New France, 2
New France — LaSalle claims the Miss-
issippi Valley to, 25; Belief in Asiatic
connections, 26 ; Sea of the West, 30 ;
Indian tribes named by French
geographers, 32; French explorations
west of the Mississipjii, 33; still hunt-
ing for the Chinese frontier, 39; divi-
sion into Canada and Louisiana, 40;
last search for the water passage to
India, 41; Spain takes possession of
New France (1768), 42
New Spain — Coming of the French to,
15; returned to Prance (1762), 21;
No permanent settlement established,
22
Niehol, George, 585
Nichols, Charles, 224, 227, 233, 236
Nicollet. .lean, 30
Nigger Baby Hill, 543
Ninth Regiment of United States Cav-
alry, 687
North county, 358
North Park,' 462, 561
North Poudre Irrigation Company, 578
Nye, John, 238
Oakes, D. C, 219
Odell, J. N., 352
O'Donnell, William, 220
Old Fortification Camp, 689
Olin, Walter H., 550
Onate, Juan de, 12-15
Orman, James B., 490, portrait, 594
Oro City, 287
Otero Canal, 584
Otis, Harrison (!., 286
Ouray, 461, 696, "09
Ouray Town Company, 697
Outlying towns add to Denver, 751
Output of gold in the state for various
years, 746
Owens, A. H., 272
Oxford Farmers' Canal, 584
Padilla, Juan de, 8, 10
Padoucas, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38
Pagosa Springs, 436
Palmer, William J., 455-6, 514, 517
Park county, 198, 358, 366, 440, 448
Parkman, Francis, 176
Parks, 121
Parks, R. S., 353
Parkville, 258
Parrott, W. J., 355
Pathfinder of the San Juan Country,
697
Patterson, A. O., 617
Patterson, C. B., 335
Patterson, Thomas M., 372, 485, 489-91
Paul, J. Marshall, 621, 625
Pawnee & Western Company, 501, 502
Pawnee Creek, 9fi
Pawnee Ditch, 578
Pawnee Republic, 50
Pawnees, 137, 150, 151
Pawnees (French "Panis"), 32
Peabody, James H., 490, portrait, 624;
752
Peak, James, 112
Peavy, Angette J., 727
Pecki Charles D., 268
Penalosa, Don Diego Dionisio de, 15
Pence, Lafe, 492
Peralto, Pedro de, 14
Percentages of the increase in popula-
tion in the counties in which tilling
the soil is the principal occupation, 757
Perry, Samuel M., 527
Peterson, H. C. 621
Pettis, S. N., 319, 652
Piedmont, 269
Pierce, John, 508, 510
Pike, Zebulon M., 45, 69; promoted cap-
tain, 86; congress refuses extra com-
pensation, 89; biography, 90; 570, 595
Pike's Fort (1806), first American
structure in Colorado, 53
Pike's Peak Country, 201, 202, 204, 205;
first permanent American colony, 207,
208, the Russell expedition, 208-11;
Lawrence party, 211, 217.18; O'Don-
nell party, 220 ; organization of
pioneer town companies, 223-42; first
mercantile establishment in, 237;
memorial for home-maile government,
246; first newspapers, 247; the
"gobaeks, " 248; actual discoveries
and permanent settlements, 249-59;
first mining district formed, 251; early
wagon roads through, 270-2; ditch
companies, 272-4; pioneer stamp mills,
274-5; family life, 276; first American
native, 276; first daily newspaper,
288; population in 1860, 359; 551,
638-9
Pike's Peak excitement, 758
Pike's Peak, first measurement of, 55;
96, 100, 102, 103, 111,^112, 155-6;
first woman to ascend, 217
Pioneer feminine legislators in Colo-
rado, 727
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INDEX
Pitkin, Frederick \V., portrait, 337; 490,
706
Phillebert's Company, 1(37, 168
Physicians, 666
Physieans in 1S59, 669
Placer Camp, 215
Plains Indians (see Indians)
Platte Canon, 99
Platte Ditch, 574
Platte River, 38, 95, 101
Platte Valley Canal, 579
Plateau Valley, 559
Pleasant Valley & Lake Canal, 578
Plum Creek, 99, 119
Political episode of 1904-05, 752
Politics and the judiciary, 65S
Pony Express, 288, 436
Popple, Henry ("Map of the British
Empire in America"), 29
Population during '80s, 709
Population of Colorado in 1900, 748
Porter, Samuel G., 593
Post, C. C, 360
Poudre River, 120, 555
Poudre Valley Ditch, 581
Poulot & Voilleque, 547
Poverty Gulch, 546
Preuss, Charles, 115, 117, 120, 125
Price, Sterling. 407-8
Printer Roy Lode, 537
Pritchard. " Jesse L., 405, 407
Proceedings of Territorial Medical Con-
vention, 674
Proclamation of the Governor of the
state of Colorado on female snffraffe,
726 " '
Prosser, Couklin & Co., 274
Public schools — territorial, 442; first