Historic Towns of the Western States

by Unknown

• M
• Macallister College, [294]
• McArthur, Lieut.-Gov., [249], [250]
• McCoy, J.C., [395]
• McCoy, Rev. Isaac, [382]
• McDougal, [540], [542], [543]
• McDowell, [360]
• McGee, Fry P., [395]
• McGee, James H., [394]
• Mackinac, Sara Andrew Shafer on, [121]-[145];
• situation, [121]-[124];
• description of, [124]-[128];
• first explorers and missionaries, [128]-[130];
• Marquette and La Salle, [130]-[134];
• Pontiac's conspiracy, [136]-[140];
• comes into possession of United States, [140];
• War of 1812, [140]-[142];
• the fur trade, [142];
• Rev. Eleazar Williams, [144]
• Mackinaw, [90]
• McKinley, Pres't Wm., [52], [422]
• McLean at Cincinnati, [74]
• McLeon, Gen., [469]
• McLoughlin, Dr. John, in Oregon, [544]-[553]
• McTavish, [543]
• Madison, President James, [116]
• Madison, R.G. Thwaites on, [235]-[264];
• before the settlement, [235]-[238];
• choosing a State capital, [238];
• laying out the town, [240];
• the first dwelling, [240];
• coming of the Legislature, [242];
• early description of, [242];
• slow growth, [243];
• attempts to remove the capital, [245];
• early legislative sessions, [246];
• the Barstow-Bashford case, [248]-[250];
• the State House, [250];
• the State university, [252]-[260];
• the city to-day, [260]-[264]
• Madrid, [626], [629]
• Majorca, [635]
• Malden in War of 1812, [114]
• Manderson, C.F., [420]
• Marcy, march of, [432]
• Marcy, Secretary Wm. L., [472]
• Mare Island, [592]
• Margane, François, [163]
• Marie Antoinette, [8]
• Marietta, [58], [71];
• Muriel Campbell Dyar on, [1]-[30];
• Ohio Company formed, [2];
• the colony, [4]-[6];
• the journey, [7];
• the first summer on the Ohio, [8];
• the first governor, [10];
• the coming of the Frenchmen, [11]-[13];
• hardships, [13];
• Indian wars, [14]-[18];
• material prosperity, [18];
• the Blennerhassett tragedy, [20]-[22];
• the modern Marietta, [22];
• the College, [24]-[26];
• the Mound Cemetery, [26]-[28];
• relics, [28] ff.
• Marin del Valle, [454]
• Markham, Edwin, on San Francisco, [569]-[616]
• Marquette, [132]-[134], [302], [333]
• Marsh's trading post, [214]
• Martineau, Harriet, [78]
• Mary Institute, St. Louis, [360]
• Maryland, the, [558]
• Mason, Gov., [670]
• Mason, Stevens T., [238]
• Mayflower, the, [88], [620]
• Mayflower, the new, [1], [7]
• Meigs, Gov. R.J., [6], [28]
• Ménard, Pierre, [205]
• Merrill, Samuel, [152]
• Methodists on the Willamette, [550]
• Meurin, Father, [193]
• Mexico, and California, [572], [578], [626], [633], [658];
• and Kansas City trade, [385];
• war with, [27], [362], [432]
• Miami and Erie Canal, [82]
• Micheltorena, [664], [665]
• Michigan Territory, [235]
• Michilimackinac, [124], [136]
• Michsawgyenan, [122]
• Miles, Gen., [517]
• Millard, Joseph H., [420]
• Miller, Joaquin, [614]
• Miller's Hill, Nebraska, [406]
• Milwaukee, [202], [214], [238], [239], [245]
• Mineral Point, [236], [238]
• Minisink, massacre of, [61]
• Minneapolis—St. Paul, C.B. Elliott on, [265]-[300];
• Falls of St. Anthony discovered, [265];
• title to the region passes from the Indians, [267];
• Fort Snelling established, [268];
• first settler on site of St. Paul, [270];
• St. Paul becomes State capital, [271];
• growth of the rival town, [272]-[276];
• the two cities compared, [276]-[300]
• Minnehaha, falls of, [290]
• Mission Dolores, [574]-[579], [632]
• Missouri, see St. Louis and Kansas City
• Missouri Compromise, [353]
• Missouri Pacific Railroad, [386], [398]
• Mobile, [90]
• Montcalm, [338]
• Monterey, [450], [574], [581], [669];
• Harold Bolce on, [617]-[644];
• historic background, [617]-[620];
• Vizcaino finds the harbor, [620];
• rediscovered by Junípero Serra, [622]-[626];
• his great services, [626]-[628];
• Spain sends relief, [629];
• the Spanish capital, [630]-[634];
• a visit to, [635]-[644]
• Montezuma, [450]
• Montgomery, Capt., [581]
• Mormon, Book of, quoted, [490]
• Mormons, in Nebraska, [406]-[409];
• in Colorado, [425], [432];
• in Utah, [435];
• see also Salt Lake City
• Morrison, Wm., [466]
• Morse, S.F.B., [125]
• Morton, Oliver P., [158], [167]
• Moultons, the, at Marietta, [16]
• Mound Builders, [26], [63], [169], [302]
• Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, [82]
• Mullanphy, John, [360]
• Munford, Munford & Hasbrook, [392]

• N
• Napoleon Bonaparte, [617], [635]
• Natalia, the, [635]
• Nebraska & Council Bluffs Ferry Co., [401]
• Nebraska Territory, [403]
• Nelson, W.R., [392]
• Néve, Gov., [652]
• New Albion, [572]
• Newburyport, Mass., [558]
• New Mexican, the, [474]
• New Mexico, see Santa Fé
• New Orleans, [76], [333], [340], [344], [346], [347]
• New Spain, [572]
• New York, [43], [71], [75], [514]
• News, The Kansas City, [392]
• News, The Rocky Mountain, [437], [439]
• Niagara, [108], [528]
• Nichols, Gregg, [674]
• Nichols, Col. J.G., [674]
• Nicolet, Jean, visits Mackinac, [128]
• Nicollet, [302]
• Nito, Manuel, [654]
• North American Fur Company, [350]
• North Bend, settling of, [58]
• Northrup, H.M., [394]
• Northwest Company, [540]
• Northwest Fur Company, [510], [538]
• Northwest Territory, [1], [10]
• Northwestern University, [229], [230]
• Nye, [6]

• O
• Oakinagen, [542]
• Oakland, California, [610]
• Observer, The St. Louis, [362]
• O'Fallon Park, [369]
• Ohio Company, the, [2]-[4], [27], [101]
• Oliphant, Laurence, quoted, [273]
• Omaha, [462];
• Victor Rosewater on, [401]-[423];
• origin, [401]-[403];
• location, [404];
• visit of Lewis and Clark, [404]-[406];
• Mormon encampment at, [406]-[409];
• early government, [409]-[412];
• the Pacific Telegraph, [412]-[414];
• the Union Pacific Railway, [414]-[418];
• recent history, [418]-[420];
• the Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898, [420]-[423]
• Oñate founds Santa Fé, [449]-[453]
• Ordinance of 1787, [2], [4], [10], [101], [191]
• Oregon, see Portland
• Oregon City, [535], [549]-[554]
• Oregonian, The, [558], [566]
• O'Reilly, Don Alexander, [338]
• O'Rourke, Phil., [532]
• Osceola, [221]
• Osio, Antonio, [661]
• Otermin, Gov., [459]
• Oumetz, Padre, [654]
• Outre Mer quoted, [278]
• "Overland Mail Express Company," [385]
• Overland Monthly, [614]
• Overland Telegraph Line, [499]
• Overton, A.M., [535], [554]

• P
• Pacific Fur Company, [538]
• Pacific Railway, [414]
• Pacific Telegraph, [412]
• Parke, Benjamin, [196]
• Parkman, Francis, [129];
• quoted, [280]
• Parrant, [270]
• Parraquia, [464]
• Parson, Samuel H., [6]
• Parton, James, quoted, [81]
• Paty, Capt., [660]
• Payne, U.S. Senator, [31]
• Peck, Eben, [240]
• Peck, P.F.W., [209]
• Peoria, [206]
• Peralta, Gov. Pedro, [453]
• Perez, Gov. Albino, [468]
• Pérouse, Count, [627], [629]
• Perrot, [129], [132]
• Perry, first settler at St. Paul, [270]
• Perry, President Alfred Tyler, [26]
• Perry's victory, Commodore, [116]
• Pettygrove, F.W., [554]
• Phelan, Mayor James D., [610]
• Philadelphia, [90], [193]
• Philippines, the, [195], [572], [649]
• Pico, Don Pio, [655], [660], [664] ff.
• Pico, Jesus, [669]
• Piernas, [340], [342]
• "Pig's Eye," see Parrant
• Pike, Lieut. Zebulon M., [267], [348], [430], [434], [467]
• Pike's Peak, [436], [437], [442]
• Pillsbury, Chas. A., [283]
• Pillsbury, Gov. John S., [285], [288]
• Pińa, Maxima, [658]
• Pioneer Day, [483]
• Pirates on the Mississippi, [346]
• Pittsburg, [196]
• Platteville, [238]
• Plymouth, [2], [5], [88]
• Plymouth Rock, [620]
• Plympton, Major, [272]
• Polk, President, [552]
• Pontiac, conspiracy of, [106]-[109], [136]-[140], [175];
• death of, [337]-[339]
• Pool, Lieut., [111]
• Popé, conspiracy of, [458]-[461]
• Portalá, [622], [623], [650]
• Portland, Thos. L. Cole on, [535]-[568];
• origin of, [535];
• Astoria, [536]-[544];
• Vancouver, [544]-[549];
• Oregon City, [549]-[556];
• massacre of Whitman, [556];
• California gold fever, [556];
• situation of, [557];
• a great seaport, [558];
• Henry Villard's contribution to growth of, [560];
• character of, [562]-[568]
• Portsmouth, the, [581]
• Potosi, academy at, [352]
• "Prairie Schooner," [384]
• Pratt, Orson, [483], [486]
• Prentice, Samuel, [660]
• Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles, [646] ff.
• Pursley, [468]
• Putnam, Herbert, [285]
• Putnam, Israel, at Detroit, [109]
• Putnam, Rufus, [2], [4]-[7], [26], [28]

• Q
• Quebec, [91], [134], [198], [338]

• R
• Racine, [238]
• Radisson, [129]
• Ragan, Jacob, [395]
• Raleigh Tavern, [628]
• Ralston, A., [147]
• Ramsey, Gov. A., [271]
• Rantoul, Robert, [273]
• Reavis, L.U., [331]
• Recollets, [129], [134], [266]
• Red Jacket, [338]
• Reedy, William Marion, on St. Louis, [331]-[373]
• Reid, Hugo, [672]
• Relations, [129], [130]
• Republic, The St. Louis, [349]
• Republican, The Missouri, [362]
• Republican, The Santa Fé, [474]
• Revolution, the American, [82], [95], [109]-[112], [177], [266], [342];
• officers in, buried at Marietta, [27]
• Revolution of 1848, [364]
• Rezanoff visits San Francisco Bay, [579]
• Rhode Island, battle of, [5]
• Rhodes, J.F., [50]
• Richelieu, Cardinal, [88];
• quoted, [225]
• Ridgely, N.H., [220]
• Rivet, M., [193]
• Roberts, Capt., [141]
• Rockefeller, John D., founds Chicago University, [229]
• Rocky Mountain Fur Company, [431]
• Rosas, Gov. Luis, [458]
• Rosewater, Edward, [420]
• Rosewater, Victor, on Omaha, [401]-[423]
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques, [309]
• Roux, Father, [381]
• Russian Fur Company, [543]
• Rutland and the Ohio Company, [7]

• S
• Sacramento, [608]
• Saengerbund, the Cincinnati, [74]
• St. Ange, [174], [176], [177]
• St. Ann's, Mackinac, [125]
• St. Anthony City, [273]
• St. Anthony, Falls of, [265], [267], [272]
• St. Augustine, Fla., [449]
• St. Charles, Col., [436]
• St. Clair, Gen., at Marietta, [10];
• defeat of, [60]-[62], [64]-[68];
• and Vincennes, [191]
• St. Clair, Louisa, [15]
• St. Cyr, Father, [205]
• St. Francis, [569], [574], [620]
• St. Ignace, [133], [136], [141]
• St. Joseph, [385]
• St. Louis, W.M. Reedy on, [331]-[373];
• situation, [331];
• founding of, [333]-[335];
• Spanish rule, [335]-[346];
• coming of Pontiac, [337]-[340];
• trade of, [346]-[348];
• early description of, [348]-[353];
• and the slavery question, [353]-[357];
• growing Americanism, [357]-[362];
• ante-bellum days, [362]-[366];
• in the Civil War, [366];
• recent history, [366]-[373]
• St. Paul, see Minneapolis
• St. Petersburg, [351]
• Ste. Geneviève, [344]
• Salazar, Don José, [669]
• Salt Lake City, [684];
• J.E. Talmage on, [479]-[508];
• motive of settlement, [479]-[482];
• the coming of the Mormons, [482]-[488];
• the cricket scourge, [488];
• creation of the Territory, [489]-[493];
• trouble with the Federal government, [494]-[499];
• educational development, [500]-[502];
• the present city, [502]-[508]
• San Blas, harbor of, [626]
• San Carlos Mission, [632], [650]
• Sanchez, [651], [661]
• San Diego, [627], [648], [649], [666]
• Sand Lot Agitation, [598]
• San Francisco, [197], [515], [528], [632];
• Edwin Markham on, [569]-[616];
• situation, [569];
• early visitors to the region, [570]-[572];
• Spanish colonization plans, [572]-[574];
• the Mission Dolores, [574]-[579];
• Yerba Buena, [579]-[581];
• California ceded to United States, [582];
• the gold fever, [582]-[586];
• the Vigilance Committee, [587]-[594];
• in the Civil War, [596];
• the Comstock Lode, [597];
• the Sand Lot Agitation, [598]-[601];
• the Chinese problem, [601]-[606];
• architecture of, [606];
• streets of, [607];
• parks of, [608]-[610];
• education in, [610];
• libraries of, [612];
• distinguished citizens, [613]-[616]
• San Gabriel, [452], [453], [454], [648], [650] ff.
• San Miguel Chapel, [454], [459], [460], [463], [464]
• San Pedro, [648], [674]
• Santa Anna, [385]
• Santa Cruz, [622]
• Santa Fé, [384], [386], [431], [432], [660];
• F.W. Hodge on, [449]-[478];
• founding of, [449]-[453];
• infancy of, [453]-[458];
• conspiracy of Popé, [458]-[461];
• the Pueblo régime, [461];
• Spanish restoration, [462]-[468];
• rebellion of 1837, [468];
• American occupancy, [469]-[476];
• in the Civil War, [476];
• recent years, [476]-[478]
• Santo Domingo, [466]
• Sargent, Winthrop, [6], [191]
• Schmidt, Bruno, [162]
• Schoolcraft, Henry, [125], [202];
• quoted, [140]
• Scott, Dred, [270]
• Scott, Harvey W., [566]
• Scott, Judge J.R., [672]
• Scott, Gen. Winfield, [268], [305], [306]
• Seattle, [363]
• Senator, the, [674]
• Serra, see Junípero Serra
• Shafer, Sara Andrew, on Mackinac, [121]-[145]
• Shaw, Henry, [369]
• Shawbonee quoted, [206], [208]
• Shelby, Gen. Isaac, [114], note
• Shepard, Elihu, [354];
• quoted, [341]
• Sheridan, Phil, [517]
• Sherman, John, [31]
• Sherman, Gen. W.T., [593]
• Sia, [466]
• Sibley at Valverde, [476]
• Sibley, Hiram, [413]
• Sibley, Solomon, [202]
• Sill, E.R., [51]
• Sloat, Commodore, [581], [635]
• Slough, Col., [476]
• Smith, Robert, [274], [275]
• Smith, W.H., on Vincennes, [169]-[196]
• Snelling, Col., [268], [270]
• Snelling, Joseph, [270]
• Snow, Erastus, [483]
• Sola, [655]
• Spain, and the Southwest, [67], [180], [343];
• Louisiana ceded to, [335]-[337];
• in Colorado, [428];
• in Kansas, [428];
• in New Mexico, see Santa Fé;
• on the Pacific, [572], [573], [620], [630]-[634];
• our war with, [422]
• Speelyai, [512], [513], [517], [533]
• Spencer, Dr. Kirby, [284]
• Spokane, Harold Bolce on, [509]-[533];
• the situation, [509]-[512], [528];
• the falls, [512]-[515];
• troubles with the Indians, [516]-[521];
• genesis of, [521];
• discovery of galena mines, [522];
• the boom, [523]-[525];
• character of, [526]-[528];
• the Spokane ass, [530]-[532];
• climate, [532]
• Spokane Gary, [520]
• Spokesman-Review, The Spokane, [524]
• Sproat, [6], [10], [15]
• Stanford, Jane, [612], [639]
• Stanford, Leland, [612]
• Stanford University, [612]
• Star, The, [582]
• Star, The Kansas City, [392]
• Stark, B., [554]
• State Register, [319]
• Stearns, Abel, [665]
• Steele, Franklin, [272]
• Steptoe, Col., [518]
• Stevens, John H., [274], [275]
• Stevenson, Col., [670]
• Stevenson, R.L., in San Francisco, [609];
• in Monterey, [619], [639]
• Stillwater, Minn., [271]
• Stockton, Commodore, [665] ff.
• Stoddard, Charles Warren, [615]
• Stoddard, Maj. Amos, [348]
• Story preaches at Marietta, [16]
• Stout, J. Kennedy, drafts charter for Spokane, [522]
• Strong, W.A., [389]
• Stuart, David, [542]
• Stuart, John T., quoted, [214]
• Sublette, [431], [468]
• Sullivan claims, [532]
• Sulpicians at Mackinac, [129]
• Sumrill's Ferry, [7]
• Sutro, Adolph, [613]
• Sutter's Mill, [401]
• Swing, David, [232]
• Symmes, John Cleves, [58], [71]

• T
• Taboada, Padre Gil, [656]
• Taliafero, Major, [270]
• Talmage, J.E., on Salt Lake City, [479]-[508]
• Tanos of Galisteo, the, [461], [462]
• Taylor, Bayard, cited, [243]
• Taylor, Zachary, [305]
• Tecumseh, [61], [70], [192], [201], [206], [521]
• Teesdale, John, [319]
• Terry and Broderick, [593], [596]
• Texas, annexation of, [195];
• troubles with, [469];
• in New Mexico, [469], [476]
• Tewa pueblo, [452]
• Thames, battle of the, [206]
• Thayendanegea defeats St. Clair, [61]
• Thiery, M., [12]
• Thompson, David, [540]
• Thompson, James, [208]
• Thwaites, R.G., on Madison, [235]-[264]
• Thwing, C.F., on Cleveland, [31]-[53]
• Times, The Kansas City, [392]
• Tippecanoe, [70], [350], [513]
• Tlascalan, [459]
• Todd, Col. John, [191]
• Tomlinson, Daniel, [157]
• Tonquin, the, [539], [542]
• Tonty, Madame, [91]
• Topinebee, [204]
• Trail, Navajo, [427];
• Santa Fé, [428], [467]
• Trans-Mississippi Exposition, [420]-[423]
• Trappist monks, [302]
• Treaty, of Paris, [140];
• of Greenville, [201];
• of Ghent, [544];
• of 1832, [305];
• of 1842, [306];
• of 1846, [552];
• of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, [489], [595]
• Tribune, The New York, [243], [438]
• Troost, B., [380]
• Tupper, Benjamin, [2], [6]
• Twain, Mark, [615]

• U
• Ugarte, Gov., [466]
• "Underground Railroad," [92,][318]
• Union Pacific Railway, [388], [415], [442], [500]
• United States, and the Northwest Territory, [140], [178], [191], [267];
• Keokuk reserve ceded to, [305];
• and Salt Lake City, [490];
• and California, [580]
• University of Southern California, [682]
• Utah, see Salt Lake City

• V
• Valverde, fight at, [476]
• Vancouver, history of, [546]-[549]
• Vancouver the explorer, [537], [627]
• Van Horn, Col. R.T., [389], [390]
• Vargas, Gov., [462]-[464]
• Varnum, James M., [6]
• Vasouver, Lieut., [552]
• Victoria, Gov., [662]
• Vigil, Gov. Juan B., [472]
• Vigilance Committee, see San Francisco
• Vigo, Francis, [185], [186], [190]
• Villard, Henry, [560]
• Vincennes, [150], [152];
• W.H. Smith on, [169]-[196];
• prehistoric times, [169]-[171];
• early explorers, [171];
• French settlement of, [173]-[175];
• English rule, [175]-[178];
• captured by George Rogers Clark, [178]-[191];
• Indiana Territory organized, [191];
• later history, [193]-[196]
• Vineyard, James R., [246]
• Virginia cedes western territory to United States, [191]
• Vizcaino, [572], [574], [620], [622], [643], [648]