GENERAL INDEX
Abbott, J. S. C.: [158], [162]-3, [224], [236].
Abenakis: [22].
Adams, Josiah: opinion on admission of Louisiana as a state, [61]-2.
Alabama: few whites there in 1800, [46];
part included in Free State of Franklin, [125].
Alamo, The: no messengers of defeat, [149];
Travis hemmed in, [177];
battle of, [179].
“Alamo baby”: [180].
Alarcon: [328].
Alaska: [387].
Alexander, Colonel: defeats Crockett for Congress, [165].
Allegheny mountains: barrier formed by, [48].
America: her debt to her early explorers, [74];
population of, [221];
gets her territory first, [372];
potentially most powerful of all world powers, [375];
utterly changed from original America, [398];
a look into the future, [424]-428.
American, The: his birth, [103].
American frontiersmen: dress of, [18].
American Fur Company: first steamboat, [188];
gets posts of Northwest Company, [197];
beginning of, [329].
Appalachians: first trails were waterways, [39].
Archer, of Virginia: [177].
Armijo, Governor: [242].
Armstrong, Lieutenant-Governor: [169].
Asenesipia: [69], [124].
Ashley, General: goes up the Platte, [294];
takes cannon through South Pass, [328];
undertakes exploration of Green River, [336]-7.
Astor, John Jacob: [289];
expedition to Astoria, [329]-333.
Astoria: [329].
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad: [270].
Austin, Stephen A.: [173].
Austin: [177].
Austria-Hungary: emigration to the United States, [409]-410.
Ax, The American: description and uses, [7]-10.
Bacon, quotation from: [388].
Baird, J. M.: [268].
Baird, McKnight & Chambers: [268]-271.
Baker and Company, I. G.: [210].
Balance of trade: [393].
Baltimore: [45], [168].
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. organized: [349].
Bank examiner: distance traveled by one, [208].
Batts, Thomas: [101].
Beale, Lieutenant: [250].
Bear, black: [163].
Beaver, skin: price of, [190].
Becknell, William: [270]-272.
Bee Hunter, The: [176], [181].
Benton, Thomas: [300].
Benton, Fort: [209].
Bering Sea: [387].
Berkeley, Bishop: [38].
Bicknell, William: [270].
Big Men: America rich in, [126]-7.
Birch-bark: absence of in Montana, [197].
Birch-bark canoe: description of, [19]-24.
Blackfeet, The: [341]-2.
Blue Ridge mountains: barrier formed by, [48].
Boarding: cost of in the West, [215].
Boat, The American: description of, [19]-24.
Bob, Col. R. E.: foot-note, [164].
Bodley, Thomas: [79].
Bonneville, Captain: [312]-315, [329].
Boone, Daniel: [45];
leaves Society of Friends, [77];
moves from Bucks county, [77]-8;
brothers-in-law, [79];
marriage, [80];
called Luther of frontiering, [88];
personality, [89]-90;
personal description, [91]-94;
birth, [94];
second marriage, [95];
with Braddock as a wagoner, [96];
determines to explore Kentucky, [98];
where is his fame as an explorer, [102];
departure from the Yadkin settlement for the West, [103];
left alone in the wilderness, [105];
moves family to Kentucky, [107];
undertakes discovery of surveyors, [107]-8;
lays out road from the Holston to the Kentucky, [108];
knowledge of woodcraft, [109];
capture of his daughter by the Indians, [110];
captured by Indians and taken to Detroit, [111];
life saved by Kenton, [114]-15;
adventure with two Indians, [115]-16;
leaves Kentucky, [116];
granted a commission by Spanish governor of Louisiana, [117];
land taken from him by the government, [117];
date of death, [118];
his late years, [118]-19;
his body and that of his wife moved to Kentucky, [120];
compared with Davy Crockett, [145]-6.
Boone, Squire: [104];
family moves to Kentucky, [106];
death, [113].
Boonesborough: [42], [99];
founding of, [108];
saved by Boone, [111]-112.
Bore, in rifle: [13].
Bowie, James: [177].
Braddock: [96].
Brandywine, battle of: [82].
Brant, Mohawk chief: [48].
Bread riot: [216]-218.
Bridger, Fort: [295]-6.
Bridger, Jim: [295]-6.
Britain, ancient: [36].
Broadwater, Colonel Charles A.: [210].
Bryan, James: [79].
Bryan, Morgan: [79]-80.
Bryan, Rebecca: [80], [95].
Bryan, William: [79].
Bryant’s Station, fight at: [113].
Buchanan, Mrs. Sally: [56].
Buena Ventura: [243].
Buffaloes: first seen by Boone, [103].
“Bullboats”: [197].
Bullitt’s Lick: [65].
Burro: price of, [203].
“Caches” of Baird and Chambers: [269].
Cahokia: [45].
Calico: price of, [190].
California: discovery of gold in, [200];
density of population in 1870, [220];
discovery of gold, and its effect on the West, [381]-385.
Callison, Susannah: [82].
Calloway family: [110].
Canada: emigration to, and cause, [391];
emigration to the United States 1821-1850, [407];
emigration to, [416]-418;
will it be Americanized, [418]-422.
Canal, Washington’s: [67].
Cañon of the Colorado: [231], [328].
Canot du Maître: [23].
Canot du Nord: [22], [195], [197].
Caravan trade: its extent, [281];
goods carried, [282];
carried on by Southern-Western men, [282].
Cardenas: [328].
Carolina: [47]; rallying ground for adventures, [88].
Carolina, North: its relations with the Washington District, [128];
annexes Watauga, [131];
gives Washington District to the United States, [132];
repeals act of cession of Washington District, [133];
appoints officers for state of Franklin, [137].
Carson, Kit: grandson of Daniel Boone, [120];
birth, [223];
description, [225];
dress and equipment, [227];
greatest of American travelers, [228];
dispute concerning birth place, [228];
boyhood days, [229];
wanderings from 1826 to 1834, [229]-238;
first marriage, [239];
hunter for Bent’s Fort, 1834-1842, [239]-240;
guide for first Frémont expedition, [241];
second marriage, [242];
guide for second Frémont expedition, [242]-245;
guide for Frémont a third time, [247]-9;
messenger to Washington three times, [249], [250], [251];
appointed lieutenant in the U. S. A., [251];
expedition with eighteen old friends, [254];
sheep drive to California, [255];
Indian agent and counselor, [257];
death, [258].
Carter, John: [128].
Castrillon: Mexican general, [180].
Caucasian population: largest is that of America, [374].
Cavalier: [37], [53], [75].
Census: second of the U. S., [45].
Center of population in 1860: [220].
Central Pacific Railroad: [209].
Chambers, Baird and McKnight: [268]-271.
Champlain: [265].
Cherokees: [54]; League with Spain, [59].
Cherronesus: [69], [124].
Chicago: a city of transportation, [364].
Chicasas: [140].
China: struggle of the nations for its commerce, [422]-424.
Chittenden: [337].
Choctaws: [140].
Chouteau: [266], [338].
Church: first in the West, [126].
Civil government: first written compact of, [130].
Civil War, The: causes and results, [354].
Clark: [71], [287].
Cleveland: founded, [70].
Cleveland, Moses: [70].
Coahuila: [174].
Coal oil: price of, [214].
Coast Indians: [331].
Cocke, General William: [134].
College: first in the West, [126].
Colorado, Grand Cañon of: [231], [328].
Colter, John: [335].
Commerce, Western: [191].
“Commerce of the Prairies, The”: [268].
Commercial West: its beginning, [65]-6.
Congress: sells land to Ohio Land Company, [41];
proposes to sell vacant lands, [132];
does not recognize independence of Franklin, [137].
Coureurs du bois: [194].
Coole, William: [103].
Cooley, William: [103].
Cooper, Braxton: [271].
Cooper, Fennimore: [45].
Corn: price of in early days, [189].
Coronado: [339].
Cost of living: greater to-day than in 1899, [392].
Courts: follow swiftly into Kentucky, [112].
Crittenden: orator at Boone’s burial in Kentucky, [120].
Creek War: [154].
Crockett, Davy: [145];
compared with Boone, [145]-4;
his rapid change after going to Congress, [147];
birth, [149];
leaves home, [151];
works for his freedom, [152];
goes to school, [153];
marriage, [153];
moves toward the West, [153]-4;
serves in the Creek War, [154]-5;
wife dies and he marries a second time, [156];
elected to the legislature, [157];
moves to the Mississippi, [157];
electioneering stories, [159]-163;
skill as a bear hunter, [163]-4;
defeated by Alexander for Congress, [165];
elected to Congress, [166];
changes from bear hunter to politician, [166]-7;
opposes Jackson, [167];
motto, [167];
makes a trip through the North and East, [168]-9;
result of northern trip, [169];
open animosity toward Jackson, [170];
his experience with the political machine, [171]-2;
determines to move to Texas, [172];
“autobiography,” [175];
route of journey to Texas, [176];
accuses Houston, [178];
death, [180];
alleged diary, [181].
Crockett, John: [150];
opens a tavern, [151].
Crooks: [333].
Cutler, Manasseh: [41].
Cutthroat: sign for, [195].
Danger of a stage trip: [213].
“Dark and Bloody Ground,” The: [114].
Davis, Cushman K.: [361].
Day: [333].
Dechard: [13].
Dechert: [13].
De Munn: [266].
Dequelo, The: [179].
Detroit: [111].
Development of the West: influenced by difficult route of entry, [49]-50.
“Diamond hitch”: [205].
“Diamond R” Transportation Company, The: [210].
Difficulties of Western travel: [212].
Doan, Reverend Samuel: [131].
Dogs: use of in packing, [196].
Donelson, Rachel: [55].
Doylestown, Pennsylvania: [385].
Drake, Joseph: [100].
Dress of American frontiersmen: [18].
“Driving the nail”: [16].
Dugout, The: [23].
East, The: occupies Western territory the South opens, [189].
Easterner, The: his idea of the Westerner, [67].
Ely, Warren S.: [76].
Emigration to Canada: cause, [391], [416]-418.
Empire, Westward the course of, takes its way: [38].
England: [61], [72];
transfers trading posts to United States, [196];
fears Canada will be Americanized, [418]-422;
answer to Russia, [421];
wished division of China, [423].
Europe: must combat the West, [373].
Expansion, geographical: how it proceeds, [46].
Explorations by men of Kentucky and Tennessee: [43]-44.
Fannin: [177].
Fare, from Atchison to Helena: [214].
Farms: not wanted West of the Mississippi, [193].
“Father of the Santa Fé trail”: [272].
Fergusons, The: [79].
Finley, Alexander: [79].
Finley, Archibald: [79].
Finley, Henry: [79].
Finley, John: [79], [81];
president of Log College, [85];
traded with Indians on Red River, [99];
on the Ohio River, [101];
goes West with Boone, [103].
Finley family, members of: [79].
Fitch, John: [385]-6.
Fitzpatrick, noted fur trader: [233].
Flack, Ann (Baxter): [81].
Flack, Benjamin: [82].
Flack, James: [81].
Flack, William: birth, [81];
marriage, [82].
Flack, W. W.: [81].
Flat-boat: its use carried men away from the East, [66].
Flour, price of: [215].
Forbes, John Murray: [368].
Fowler, Jacob: [271].
France: [61], [72];
cedes trading posts to England, [196].
Frankfort, Kentucky: Boone erects palisades near present site of, [108];
Boone buried here, [120].
Frankland: [134].
Franklin, Benjamin: [134].
Franklin, Free State of: beginnings of, [124]-5;
legal tender in, [135];
salaries of officers, [136];
clings to standards of North Carolina, [136];
ceases to exist, [138];
looked southward for an alliance, [139].
Free State of Franklin: [124]-5.
Freight rates: comparative costs in Europe and America, [390].
Frémont: [224];
first expedition, [241];
second expedition, [242]-245;
hunts a more direct trail to California, [247]-9;
last expedition, [257]-8;
shall he share honors with Carson, [312].
Frémont, Jessie Benton: [251].
French, The: [47]-8;
expedition of 1735, [101].
Friends, Society of: [77].
Frontier, Western: question of gradually solves itself, [141]-2;
in 1810, [185].
Frontiersman, American: outline of his westward progress, [87].
Fur trade: its home in the West, [194];
end of, [200];
end of the beginning of a new day, foot-note, [238].
“Fur trade, The American”: [337].
Fur-traders: find a way to the Rockies, [186];
many in the trans-Missouri before 1840, [339].
Garces, Father: [327].
Gardoquoi: Spanish minister, [139], [140].
Geography, a lost art: [260].
Georgia: few whites there in 1800, [46];
part included in Free State of Franklin, [125];
refuses to interfere in North Carolina-Franklin controversy,
[137]-8;
sells a portion of its territory, [140].
Germans, The: [76].
Germany: emigration from to the United States, [408];
wished division of China, [423].
Gibson House, Helena: [216].
Gillespie, Lieutenant: [248].
Girty: [113].
Gist, Christopher: [98], [101].
Glenn, Hugh: [271].
Gold: discovery of in California and its effect on the West, [200], [381]-383.
Governor of Louisiana: grants Daniel Boone a commission, [117].
Grape vine: use of by Daniel Boone, [106].
Great Britain: arms savages below the Great Lakes, [110];
emigration to the United States, [408].
Great Meadows: [96].
Green River: exploration of by Ashley and Henry, [336].
Greenbacks: value of in the West, [214].
Greene, Jonathan H.: [176].
Gregg, Josiah: [268], [275], [326].
Hall, Fort: [289].
Hall, John: [128].
Hamilton: commandant of Detroit, [111].
“Harrington”: [176].
Harris, Ann: [79].
Harris, Hannah: [78].
Harrod, James: [99].
Harrodsburg: [42], [99].
Harvard College: [169].
Hawkins, Joseph: [150].
Helplessness of trapper without a horse: [28].
Henderson, Colonel: [108].
Henry, Fort: [332], [334].
Henry, Major Andrew: builds Fort Henry, [334];
undertakes exploration of Green River, [336].
Hill, James J.: [390].
Holden, Joseph: [103].
Horse, The American: aid r=endered Western explorer, [25]-31.
Horse stealing: a serious crime, [28].
Houston, Sam: [174], [177].
Howard, John: [101].
Howe, Henry: [352].
Huger, Isaac: [140].
Hunt: [333].
Hunt, Wilson Price: [294].
Hunter, John D.: [340].
Hunter, Mary: [78].
Hynds, Alexander: [130].
Illinois Central Railroad: [369]-371.
Illinois, Governor of: [189].
Immigration: caused by Civil War, [356];
its effect on the West, [357];
an argument against unrestricted immigration, [401]-412;
restriction contemplated by Great Britain, [404];
statistics for, [407]-411.
Independence: starting point of Santa Fé trail, [276].
Indians: could not occupy trans-Alleghany ground, [49].
Individual, The: losing his grip in America to-day, [399].
Industrial revolution of the West: [355].
Ingles, Mary Draper: [99].
Inman: [270].
Iroquois, The: trafficked with the English, [43];
allied with New York, [47].
Irrigation of the West: [413]-416.
Italy: emigration to the United States, [409], [410].
Jackson, General Andrew: [55];
serves in Creek War, [154];
opposed by Crockett, [167];
denounced by Crockett, [170];
favors annexation of Texas, [178];
opposed by Crockett because of veto for Maysville road, [183].
Jamison, Robert: [79].
Jefferson, Thomas: [68], [300].
Jews, Russian: [405].
Johnston, General Albert Sidney: [298].
Johnson, Sir William: Indian agent, [48];
foot-note, [83].
Jonesboro, meeting at: [133];
courts held at by Franklin, [137].
Joy, James F.: [367].
Kaskaskia: [45]; visited by General Lafayette, [189].
Kearney, General: [249].
Keel-boat, The: [185].
Kenton, Simon: [114].
Kentucky: fights for a highway over the Appalachians, [41];
occupied by dangerous Indian tribes, [43];
outpost of civilization, [50];
saved to the Union, [58];
pioneers of, [80];
by whom settled, [88];
explored by Salling and Walker, [98];
recapitulation of explorations, [100]-101;
separated from Virginia and set up as a state, [116];
pays debt to Daniel Boone and his wife, [120];
part included in Free State of Franklin, [125].
Kentucky settlements: [58].
Kephart, Horace: [44].
Kin Cade: [230].
Kincaid: [229].
Kootenai trail, The: [341].
Labor unions: [399].
Lafayette, General: [189].
Lafitte: [173].
Lajeunesse Basil: [241], [248].
La Lande: [263].
Langford, N. P.: [134], [140], [210].
Laramie, Fort: [295].
Law: position of the West in regard to, [127]-128.
“Leatherstocking Tales”: [45].
Lederer, John: [101].
Lee, Captain U. S. A.: [236].
Lee’s army: [215].
Lewis, Meriwether: [76].
Lewis and Clark: [71], [287].
Linseed oil: price of in Montana, [214].
Liza, Manuel: [335].
Log College: [85].
Long, Major: report of his Platte expedition, [193];
seeks the Red River, [287].
“Long Hunters”: [100].
Louis the Grand Monarch: [194].
Louisiana: settled after Canada, [46];
evils likely to arise from its incorporation into the Union, [63];
dispute with Spain over Sabine as boundary of, [173].
Louisiana Purchase: [60]-61;
significance of, [61].
Luther, Martin: [88].
McBride, James: [100].
McComb, H. S.: [371].
McCullough, John: [101].
McGary fight: [113].
McKee: [113].
Mackenzie: [333].
Mackinaw boats: [198].
McKnight, John: [271].
McKnight, Robert: [230].
McKnight, Baird and Chambers: [268]-271.
McLaughlin, Doctor: [324].
McLellan: [333].
Malgres: [266].
Mallet brothers, The: [263].
Man, The West-bound American: [51].
Mansco, Kasper: [99].
Mansker, Kasper: [99].
Maritime supremacy: struggle for, with Great Britain, [424].
Markets of the world: a struggle for to-day, [388].
Martin, Governor of North Carolina: [136]-137.
Martin Academy: [132].
Maryland Canal: [348].
Massachusetts: part played in the development of the West, [347].
“Mayflower,” The: [42].
Maxwell: establishes ranch with Carson, [253].
Maysville road: bill for, [183].
Merriwether: [267].
Metropotamia: [69].
Mexican capital: in western trade, [274].
Michigan, Lake: [188].
Militia, The Pennsylvania: [96].
Mills: improvement of rifle by, [13].
Minneapolis: emigration offices in, [418].
Mississippi: few whites there in 1800, [46].
“Mississippi Territory”: [70].
Mississippi River: why explored from the North, [46];
control of secured, [60];
little understood by statesmen a hundred years ago, [61];
as a boundary of civilization, [68];
a boundary of states in “Ordinance of Northwest,” [68];
descended by John McCullough, [101];
first explorers, [73].
Missouri: becomes outpost of civilization, [50];
first steamboat on, [188].
Missouri Fur Company: [197].
Monay, James: [103].
Montana, routes to: [211].
“Montana Post”: [210].
Mooney, James: [103].
Morgan, Colonel George: foot-note, [82]-83.
Morgan, J. Pierpont: [369].
Mormons, The: [296].
Morrison, William: merchant of Kaskaskia, [282], [335].
Morton, Paul: [388].
Mother of the West: [40].
Moultrie, Alexander: [140].
Murphy wagons: [211].
Murray, John Dormer: [78].
Napoleon Bonaparte: [61], [212].
Nashville, Tennessee: settlement, [54]-57;
in touch with the Ohio River, [58].
National road: [64], [183].
Neeley, Alexander: [104].
Neshaminy Church: [85].
New England: not the mother of the West, [39];
realization of the West, [40];
character of population compared to that of western Pennsylvania, [44];
explanation of her part in discovery of the West, [44];
chances in favor of it in western movement, [49];
gives a cordial reception to Crockett, [169].
Newfoundland: emigration to the United States, [407].
New Madrid earthquakes: [157].
New Orleans: easy to reach from Kentucky, [58];
visited by John McCullough, [101];
the steamer, [187].
“New Purchase”: [156].
Newspaper: first in the West, [126].
New York, parent of the West: [40];
her policy toward the Indians, [47];
spared by Six Nations, [47];
influence with Indians due to Sir William Johnson, [48];
gains lands from the Iroquois, [48];
chances in favor of it in westward movement, [49].
Nicollet: [265].
North, The: occupies Western territory;
the South opens, [189].
North Carolina: men from, built Harrodsburg and Boonesborough, [42].
Northern Pacific Railway, The: [365].
Northwest, The: its rapid settlement to-day, [299].
Northwest Company: extends posts along our Northern border, [196];
rival of Hudson Bay Company, [329].
Northwestern Company, The: [333].
Northwest Territory, The: [124].
Norway: emigration to the United States, [408].
Occupation of the West: a study of transportation, [36].
Ohio: receives first population from New England, [70].
“Ohio Land Company”: [41].
Ohio River: known in early days, [38];
center of population on, [220].
Ojibways: [22].
“Old Betsy”: [168].
“Ordinance of the Northwest”: [68].
Oregon: density of population in 1870, [220];
should extend to Alaska, [289]-290.
Oregon trail: greatest of all American roads, [262];
early need for, [289];
early makers, [291];
its beginning, [293];
early adventurers along, [294];
a second stage begins, [297];
first agricultural invasion along, [298];
distance and direction, [305]-310.
“Oregon Trail,” Parkman’s: [303].
Osborn, William Henry: [368]-372.
Oxen: used as pack animals, [206].
Pacific: first man to reach it by land trail, [318].
Pacific Fur Company: [197].
Pacific railway: delayed by the Civil War, [354].
Pack horse: [202].
Packing, flexibility of charges for: [204].
Paine, Justice of Wisconsin: [377].
Panniers: [30].
Parkman, Francis: [275], [300]-304.
Pastimes of frontiersmen: [16].
Pathfinder, The Great: [224].
Pawnees, The: wear Spanish medals, [338].
Pax Jacksonii: [178].
Pelesipia: [69], [124].
Penn, William: [76].
Pennsylvania: starting point of the westward movement, [13];
chances against it in westward movement, [49];
first trail from, [73];
migrations from in last half of eighteenth century, [77].
Peters, Doctor: [228].
Petition of Robertson and Sevier’s men: [59].
Phenicia: [36].
Philadelphia: [76], [168].
Phillibert: [266]-7.
Physical strength: its importance in the West, [192].
Piano taken to a mining camp: [204].
Pike, Lieutenant Zebulon: marches to the Colorado, [71];
theory of straight lines, [262];
seeks headwaters of Red River, [264];
opposed by the Spaniards, [266];
selects route of Santa Fé trail, [270];
mistakes Rio Grande for Red River, [287];
journeys of, [337]-339.
Pioneers of Kentucky: [80].
Pirate, The: [176], [181].
Plains, Indians: [340].
Platt River: ancient road of the Indians, [293].
Poland: emigration to the United States, [410].
Polk, Colonel: [159].
Population: center of in 1860, [220];
of America, [221].
Post, The: [215]-216.
Potatoes: price of in San Juan mining camp in 1875, [203];
in Montana, [215];
in Chicago in 1902, [393].
Powell, Major: [336].
Prices: high in the Rockies, [203];
in Virginia City, Montana, [214]-216.
Princeton: [85], [131].
“Proceedings of Sundry Citizens of Baltimore”: [349].
Prosperity: a false condition of to-day, [395]-401.
Protestant, The: [53].
Purcell, James: [263].
Puritans: [42]-3.
Putnam, Rufus: [41].
Quakers: [53]; stem of pioneer stock, [76];
find homes west of the Alleghanies, [77].
Quicksilver: hard to pack in the mountains, [205].
Railroads: wooden-railed road from Chicago to Galena, [346];
idea of Philip Evans Thomas, [348]-9;
routes suggested to the Pacific, [351]-2;
prophecy of what a road to the Pacific would do, [353];
to the Pacific delayed by Civil War, [354];
part played by them in the development of the West, [362]-367;
changes wrought by them, [385];
their growth in America, [386];
formerly owned largely outside the U. S., [389];
an overgrowth to-day, [391];
will settle future of the West, [420].
Ramsey: [134].
Receipt-book of William Flack: [81].
Red River carts: [345].
Reed: [333].
“Remember the Alamo”: [182].
Rifle, The American: description, [11]-18.
Rio Grande: [173].
Robertson: rebellion of his men against Washington, [59];
formulates first written compact of civil government, [130].
Robertson, Charles: [128].
Robertson, James: [53]-4.
Rocky Mountain Fur Company: [197].
Roosevelt, Mr.: of New York, [187].
Roundhead: [37].
Routes suggested to the Pacific: [351]-2.
Routes to Montana: [211].
Rush: [177].
Russia: emigration to the U. S., [410];
England’s answer to, [421].
Sabine River: [173].
St. Clair: defeat of, [114].
St. Louis: became great by reason of her situation, [51];
depot for fur trade, [70];
a city of location, [364].
St. Paul: emigration offices in, [418].
St. Vrain, Colonel: [257].
Salem Presbyterian Church: [131].
Salling, John Peter: [98]-9, [101].
Salt: its importance in early days, [100].
San Antonio: Texans at, [175];
Crockett inside the gates of,
[177].
San Francisco: [256].
San Jacinto: [182].
Santa Anna: marches on San Antonio, [174];
his peons march toward the Alamo, [179].
Santa Fé railway: [279]-280.
“Santa Fé Trail, Old”: [270].
Santa Fé trail: not a transcontinental trail, [262];
extent of, [276];
distances and directions of, [276]-280;
a fate finger pointing to Mexico, [285].
“Saw Buck,” The: [30].
School-building: first one in Tennessee, [131].
Scotch-Irish: stem of pioneer stock, [76].
Scott, General: [114].
Secession: position of the West in regard to, in early days, [123]-4.
Settlement: advanced toward the Mississippi in the shape of a wedge, [45].
Sevier, John: rebellion of his men against Washington, [59];
honored by Tennessee, [125];
friend of Washington, [128];
a member of the North Carolina legislature, [128]-9;
formulates first written compact of civil government, [130];
part taken in annexation of Watauga to North Carolina, [131];
presides at Jonesboro meeting, [133];
elected governor, [134];
arrested on charge of treason, [138];
elected to Congress, [138].
Sevier and Robertson: riflemen of, [58].
“Shakes,” The: [157].
Shawnee Indians capture Daniel Boone: [111].
Shelby, Captain Evan: [128].
Shenandoah—Kentucky stock: [73].
Shiells, Dr. Hugh: [79].
Shiells, Kitty: [79].
Sierra Nevada mountains: [243]-4.
Sioux Indians, The: [195].
Six Nations: [47].
Skaggs, Henry: [101].
Smet, Father de: [297].
Smith, Henry: [174].
Smith, James: [101].
Smith, Jedediah: meets his fate on Sante Fé trail, [273];
goes to the Pacific by land trail, [318]-327.
Snipes, Major William: [140].
“Snuffing the candle”: [16].
Socialism: captains of industry likely to cause the spread of, [398].
“Society of Friends”: records of, [77].
South, The: mother of the West, [40];
opens Western territory, [189];
is to-day American, [356];
little understood, [366].
“South Seas, The”: [129].
Southern Pacific Railway, The: [365].
Southern riflemen: their skill, [14].
Spain: league with the Cherokees, [59];
claims portion of Georgia, [140];
claims Sabine as a boundary, [173].
Spaniards: result of letting their horses struggle over the plain, [27];
interfere with Jedediah Smith, [321].
Spencer, Judge: [138].
Stage lines: [207].
Stage trip: description of, [213].
Star of empire: [38].
Steam, era of: causes great change in America, [362].
Steamboat: first one built on the Ohio River, [187];
run regularly on western rivers, [201].
Steiner, Michael: [99], [108].
Stewart, John: [103];
killed by Indians, [104].
Stewart, William: [78].
Stone, Uriah: [101].
Stoner, Michael: [99], [108].
Streams: their appeal to explorers, [292].
Strode, Martha: [80].
Stuart, John: [103].
Stuart, Robert: [294].
Sturges, Jonathan: [369], [370].
Sublette, William: [295].
Sugar: price of in running camps, [203].
Sumpter mule: [202].
Supplies: how received by outlying posts, [198];
taken to Montana mining camps, [211].
Sweden: emigration to the United States, [408].
Sylvania: [69].
Taylor, Colonel: foot-note, [83].
Tennessee: saved to the Union, [58];
by whom peopled, [88];
part included in Free State of Franklin, [125];
honors John Sevier, [125];
early form of government, [130];
first literary institution in, [131].
Tennent: [85].
Texans: harass western commerce, [273].
Texas: size, [172];
population, [174];
declared independent, [174];
situation in after declaration of independence, [177].
Thermopylæ: [149].
Thimblerig: [176], [181].
Thomas, Philip Evans: [347]-349.
Thorne, captain of the Tonquin: [330]-331.
Timber lands: being abandoned, [375].
Tonquin: ship of Astor, [330]-331.
Trade, caravan: its extent, [281];
goods carried, [282];
carried on by southern-western men, [282].
Trail: the Iroquois, [47];
the Santa Fé, [260];
the Oregon, [287].
Tramell, Colonel: [230].
Transportation: in its infancy, [64];
difficulty of, leads to attempts of secession, [124];
its importance in early days, [191];
means employed in early times, [328].
Transylvania University: [79].
Travel: difficulties of in the West, [212].
Travis: [177].
Travois, The: [196].
Tucker, Benjamin: [41].
Two Medicine: The valley of, [341].
Ulster, Ireland: [84].
Ulster Scots: [83]-86.
Union Pacific Railroad: [209], [365].
Van Buren: [183].
Verendrye, Sieur de la: explores the West in 1742, [265];
one of the first to tread the Oregon trail, [294].
Victoria Cross: [115].
Villard, Henry: [368].
Virginia City, Montana: market reports, [214].
Virginia: noted as a breeding ground for horses, [26];
men from built Harrodsburg and Boonesborough, [42];
part included in Free State of Franklin, [125].
Virginia, West: part included in Free State of Franklin, [125].
Von Humboldt, Baron: [287].
Wagon train: description of, [209].
Walker, J. R.: goes to the Pacific, [315]-318.
Walker, Doctor Thomas: [98], [101].
Wallace, John: [80].
Wallace, Rev. J. W.: [80].
Washington, George: canal, [67];
birth, [94];
defeated at Great Meadows, [96];
on the Ohio River, [101];
friend of Sevier, [128], [140].
Washington: authorities at, unable to be firm with France, Spain
and England, [59].
Washington College: [132].
Washington District: men of offer their services in the Revolution, [128];
becomes part of North Carolina, [131];
given to the United States, [132];
takes steps to establish a government, [133].
Washington, government at: Wilkinson stirs up dissatisfaction against, [141].
Watauga: [130];
annexed to North Carolina, [131].
Watauga Articles of Association: [130].
Water trail: from Green Bay to the Mississippi, [70].
“Wautap”: [20].
Webster, Daniel: [64], [300].
Welsh: [76].
West, The: indebted to southern states for its inhabitants, [184];
either old or new, [302];
a prediction of its development, [375]-377;
little difference between it and the East, [379].
West-bound man: The American, [51].
Western man, The: his reliance and development, [67].
Westward movement: starting point, [13];
compared to flock of wild pigeons, [143];
one of angles, [144].
Wharton, Samuel: foot-note, [83].
Whartons, The: [177].
Wheat: cost of moving a ton in 1800, [389].
White, James: opinion on future of Louisiana after its purchase, [62].
White people: portion of country inhabited by them in 1800, [45].
“Whoa-haw”: [299].
“Widow and orphan makers”: rifle so called, [14].
Wilkinson, General James: plans to hand over the West to Spain, [59]-60, [124];
continues his intrigues, [139].
Williams, Bill: guide for Frémont, [258].
Williams, Ezekiel, [294].
Wills of Bucks countians: [80].
Women: two go West along Oregon trail, [297].
Wyeth, Nathaniel J.: [289].
Yazoo: [140].
Yellowstone National Park: [335].
Young, Ewing: [230].
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