W.
Walk-in-the-Water (steamboat), [132], [156], [167], [172].
"Warrior's Path," [19], [20].
Washington (D. C.), Baily at, [84], [85]-[86].
Washington, first double-decked steamboat, [79], [175].
Washington, Fort, [68].
Washington, George, vision of inland navigation, [4] et seq., [193]; doctrine of expansion, [6]; journey to West, [7]-[9]; letter to Harrison, [10], [53], [117], [127]; Journal, [10]; and river improvement, [31]; president of Potomac Company, [32]; and army roads, [50]; and crop rotation, [85]; prophecy regarding millstones, [87]-[88]; Rumsey and, [100]-[101], [105]-[106].
Watauga, Fort, [19].
Waters, Dr., of New Madrid, builds schooner, [95].
Watson, Elkanah, of New York, [31], [33], [36], [37], [54].
Wayne, Anthony, [67].
Webster, Pelatiah, and settlement of Northwest, [3].
Weiser, Conrad, [26].
Welch, Sylvester, [139].
Welland Canal, [12], [155], [160], [168], [169].
Western Engineer (steamboat), [186].
Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, [31], [36]-[37].
Western Maryland Railway, [18].
Westfield River, Old Bay Path along, [16].
Westover, stagecoach driver, [122]-[123].
Wheeling, western terminus of Cumberland Road, [119].
White, of Pennsylvania, [31], [40], [43].
Wickham, Nathan, [49].
Wilderness Road, [47], [50].
Winchester (Va.), trail from, [18].
Wisconsin, development of, [164].
Woodworth, Samuel, The Hunters of Kentucky, [62]-[63]; The Old Oaken Bucket, [62].