[INDEX]
- Abbey, Edwin A., [128]
- Adams, John, [84], [87]
- Adams, Samuel, [124]
- Alameda, [240]
- Allegheny, [182], [184]
- Allegheny River, [171], [172], [182]
- Baldwin, Matthias W., [71]
- Baldwin Locomotive Works, [71]
- Baltimore, [155–170]
- railroad center, [155]
- harbor, [155]
- industries, [155], [156]
- exports, [155]
- fire of 1904, [156]
- public markets, [160]
- settlement of, [167]
- Baltimore, Lord, [168]
- Barge canal, [212]
- Belleville, [98]
- Berkeley, [240]
- Bienville, Governor, [245]
- Blackstone, William, [105]
- Boston, [105–136]
- capital of Massachusetts, [105]
- settlement of, [105]
- divisions of, [107]
- harbor, [108]
- trade center, [119]
- foreign commerce, [121]
- industries, [121]
- Boston Tea Party, [84], [122]
- Braddock, [173]
- Bradford, William, [73]
- Brockton, [119]
- Brooklyn, [11], [24], [28], [30]
- Brooks, Phillips, [127]
- Bruceton, [178]
- Buffalo, [207–226]
- settlement of, [207], [208]
- named, [209]
- Erie Canal, [210]
- lake port, [211]
- importance of location, [212]
- trade with Canada, [212]
- manufacturing center, [213]
- Niagara power, [213], [216], [224–225]
- iron industry, [214]
- flour mills, [216]
- important live-stock market, [217]
- important lumber market, [217]
- harbor, [221]
- Buffalo River, [207], [221]
- Bulfinch, Charles, [111]
- Cadillac, Antoine de la Mothe, [191]
- Calumet River, [56]
- Cambridge, [116], [117], [131], [133]
- Carnegie, Andrew, [184]
- Carnegie Steel Company, [175]
- Centennial Exhibition, [75]
- Charles River, [116]
- Chicago, [41–66], [180]
- fire of 1871, [41]
- settlement of, [43]
- harbor, [45], [56], [57]
- becomes a city, [46]
- important railroad center, [54]
- greatest lake port, [54]
- grain market, [55]
- steel industry, [56]
- largest lumber market, [57]
- exports, [57]
- center of packing industry, [61]
- Pullman, [62]
- Chicago drainage and ship canal, [54]
- Chicago River, [41], [43], [45], [53], [54], [57]
- Civil War, [247]
- Cleaveland, General Moses, [137]
- Cleveland, [137–154], [180]
- settlement of, [137]
- harbor, [141]
- becomes a city, [142]
- industries, [142], [143], [148]
- importance of location, [148]
- manufacturing center, [148]
- largest ore market in the world, [148]
- center of shipbuilding, [148]
- important lake port, [153]
- Cleveland, Grover, [224]
- Clinton, De Witt, [209]
- Coal, [56], [70], [100], [142], [172], [175], [213], [214], [215], [257]
- Coal mines, [175]
- Commerce, foreign, [35], [57], [121], [231], [259]
- Cotton, [257], [258], [261]
- Croton River, [18]
- Custis, Martha, [294]
- Cuyahoga River, [137], [138], [140], [141], [145]
- Declaration of Independence, [8], [85]
- Delaware River, [67], [68], [69]
- de Portolá, Don Gaspar, [227]
- Des Plaines River, [53]
- Detroit, [139], [189–206]
- leading port on Canadian shore, [189], [199]
- founded, [191]
- early history, [191]
- growth, [192]
- trade center, [194]
- harbor, [195]
- shipbuilding industry, [195]
- becomes industrial city, [196]
- center of automobile trade, [196]
- industries, [197]
- immense wholesale trade, [198]
- railroad center, [200]
- Detroit River, [191], [200], [205]
- District of Columbia, [267], [288], [289]
- Doan, Nathaniel, [139]
- Dutch West India Company, [5]
- East River, [27], [36]
- East St. Louis, [98]
- Erie Canal, [9], [193], [209], [210], [212]
- Exports, value of, [301]
- Fall River, [121]
- Farragut, David, [248]
- Fillmore, Millard, [224]
- Fish industry, [121], [239]
- Fitch, John, [72]
- Fort Dearborn, [44]
- Fort McHenry, [169]
- Fort Myer, [294]
- Fort Pitt, [171]
- Foreign-born population, [300]
- Franklin, Benjamin, [73], [84]
- French and Indian War, [171], [191], [245]
- Fulton, Robert, [72]
- Girard, Stephen, [79]
- Gold, [227]
- Golden Gate, [231], [241]
- Grain industry, [55], [102]
- Granite City, [98]
- Gunpowder River, [163]
- Hale, Edward Everett, [130]
- Half Moon, [3]
- Hancock, John, [124]
- Homestead, [173]
- Hudson, Henry, [4]
- Hudson River, [4], [30], [35], [36], [207], [209], [210]
- Hull, General William, [192]
- Illinois and Michigan Canal, [47]
- Illinois River, [47], [53], [93]
- Imports, value of, [302]
- Increase in population of our great cities, [299]
- Iron industry, [171], [172], [214], [233]
- Jackson, Andrew, [246]
- Jefferson, Thomas, [89]
- Key, Francis Scott, [169]
- Kingsbury, James, [138]
- Kinzie, John, [43]
- Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, [215]
- Largest cities in the world, [299]
- Lawrence, [121]
- Lee, Robert E., [294]
- Lewis and Clark expedition, [90]
- Louisiana Purchase, [89], [245]
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition, [96]
- Lowell, [121]
- Lumber, [57], [100], [217], [257]
- Lynn, [119]
- Madison, [98]
- Manhattan, [4], [11]
- McCall Ferry dam, [163]
- McKeesport, [173]
- McKinley, William, [224]
- Mexican War, [227]
- Mints, [81], [82], [237]
- Minuit, Peter, [5]
- Mississippi River, [47], [89], [91], [96], [97], [171], [245], [248], [249]
- Missouri River, [90], [93]
- Mohawk River, [207], [209]
- Monongahela River, [171], [172], [182]
- Morris, Robert, [75]
- Mt. Vernon, [267], [294]
- Natural gas, [151], [181], [185], [213]
- New Amsterdam, [6], [14]
- New Bedford, [121]
- New Orleans, [171], [245–264]
- early history, [245]
- in the War of 1812, [246]
- in the Civil War, [247]
- building the city, [249]
- the French quarter, [251], [252]
- the American quarter, [251], [255]
- important lumber market, [257]
- important cotton market, [258], [261]
- Gulf port, [261]
- second export port in America, [261]
- exports, [261]
- important sugar market, [257], [261]
- Mardi Gras, [263]
- New York, [3–40]
- settlement of, [4]
- surrendered to English, [7]
- named, [8]
- capital city, [9]
- harbor, [9], [36]
- becomes Greater New York, [11]
- boroughs, [11]
- nation's chief market place, [32]
- imports, [32]
- exports, [32]
- nation's greatest workshop, [32]
- industries, [32]
- Niagara Falls, [213], [224]
- Niagara River, [190], [191], [209], [212], [219], [224]
- Oakland, [240]
- Ohio Canal, [140]
- Ohio River, [93], [137], [139], [140], [171], [172]
- Ore, [56], [142], [214]
- Packing industry, [59], [61], [101], [217], [233]
- Panama Canal, [233], [242]
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition, [242]
- Pan-American Exposition, [224]
- Patapsco River, [168]
- Penn, William, [67], [74], [75], [76]
- Perry, Oliver Hazard, [192]
- Petroleum, [180], [213], [257]
- Philadelphia, [67–88], [167]
- settlement of, [67]
- manufacturing city, [69]
- commercial center, [70]
- industries, [70]
- United States mint, [81]
- Continental Congress, [84], [85]
- Declaration of Independence signed at, [85]
- capital of the nation, [87]
- Pitt, William, [171]
- Pittsburgh, [148], [171–188]
- workshop of the world, [171]
- named, [171]
- trade center, [172]
- manufacturing city, [172]
- center of steel industry, [173]
- industries, [173]
- Pittsburgh district, [173]
- mines, [175], [177]
- petroleum, [180]
- natural gas, [181]
- Pontiac's conspiracy, [192]
- Population of our great cities, [299]
- Potomac River, [267], [272], [292]
- Pullman, [62]
- Puritans, [105]
- Quakers, [67]
- Railroads, [9], [49], [58], [70], [93], [110], [142], [150], [200], [211], [213], [238]
- Pennsylvania, [30], [150]
- New York Central, [32], [110], [150]
- Michigan Southern, [49]
- Michigan Central, [49], [200]
- Missouri Pacific, [93]
- Boston & Albany, [110]
- Boston & Maine, [110]
- New York, New Haven & Hartford, [110]
- Nickel Plate, [150]
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, [150]
- Erie Railroad, [150]
- Baltimore & Ohio, [150]
- Wheeling & Lake Erie, [150]
- Southern Pacific, [238]
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, [239]
- Union Pacific, [239]
- Western Pacific, [239]
- Revere, Paul, [124]
- Revolution, War of the, [8], [75], [111], [112], [119], [122], [192], [207], [266]
- Richmond, [240]
- Rogers, Major Robert, [191], [193]
- Roosevelt, Theodore, [224]
- Ross, Betsy, [86]
- Sacramento River, [230]
- St. Gaudens, [113], [127]
- St. Lawrence River, [190]
- St. Louis, [89–104]
- frontier village, [89]
- trade center, [93]
- railroad center, [94]
- favorable location, [98]
- industries, [100]
- distributing center, [102]
- fur, grain, and live-stock market, [102], [103]
- San Francisco, [227–244]
- early history, [227]
- growth of, [227], [228]
- “child of the mines,” [228]
- San Francisco Bay, [230]
- trade center, [231]
- exports, [231]
- imports, [231]
- industries, [233]
- United States mint, [237]
- leading salmon port, [239]
- San Joaquin River, [230]
- Sargent, John S., [128]
- Sault Ste. Marie, [190]
- Saur, Christopher, [73]
- Schuylkill River, [68], [75]
- Scioto River, [140]
- Shaw, Colonel, [113]
- Shortest railway routes from Chicago, [301]
- Shortest railway routes from New York, [300]
- Silver, [228]
- Standard Oil Company, [143]
- Steel, [56], [71], [173], [180]
- Straits of Mackinac, [190]
- Stuyvesant, Peter, [6]
- Sugar, [32], [257], [261]
- Susquehanna River, [163]
- Thevis, Father, [255]
- Tonawanda, [219]
- Touro, Judah, [257]
- Trumbull, John, [275]
- Union Stockyards, [59]
- University City, [96]
- Venice, [98]
- War of 1812, [44], [192], [209], [246], [268]
- Washington, [202], [265–298]
- the capital city, [265]
- location, [265]
- story of, [266]
- District of Columbia, [267], [288], [289]
- plan of the city, [268]
- capitol, [272]
- House of Representatives, [277], [289]
- Supreme Court, [279]
- Senate, [279], [289]
- Library of Congress, [280]
- White House, [282]
- National Treasury, [284], [286]
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing, [285]
- Washington Monument, [291]
- Post Office Department, [294]
- Arlington National Cemetery, [294]
- Washington, George, [8], [84], [87], [119], [171], [267], [282], [294]
- Westinghouse, George, [185]
- Westinghouse Electric Company, [185]
- Winne, Cornelius, [207], [208]
- Winthrop, John, [105]
- Woodward, Augustus B., [202]
- World's Columbian Exposition, [63]
- York, Duke of, [7]
Transcriber's Notes:
The original spelling and minor inconsistencies in the spelling and formatting have been maintained.
Inconsistent hyphenation and accents are as in the original if not marked as a misprint.
Captions have been added to the maps on page 69 and 268 as listed in the "List of Maps" at the beginning of the book.
| The table below lists all corrections applied to the original text. |
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| frontpage: BOOKS I AND II → BOOKS I AND II, |
| p. 160: here small craft → crafts |
| p. 225: Important center for. → Important center for |
| p. 227: Pacific coast, and Don Gasper → Gaspar |
| p. 239: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe → Fé |
| p. 248: forces land and take → takes |
| p. 306: de Portolá, Don Gasper → Gaspar |