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.“Alamobaby”:180.Alarcon:328.Alaska:387.Alexander, Colonel: defeats Crockett for Congress,165.Alleghenymountains: 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.Americanfrontiersmen: dress of,18.AmericanFur 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.Bakerand Company, I. G.:210.Balanceof trade:393.Baltimore:45,168.Baltimoreand Ohio Railroad Co. organized:349.Bankexaminer: distance traveled by one,208.Batts, Thomas:101.Beale, Lieutenant:250.Bear, black:163.Beaver, skin: price of,190.Becknell, William:270-272.BeeHunter, The:176,181.Benton, Thomas:300.Benton, Fort:209.BeringSea:387.Berkeley, Bishop:38.Bicknell, William:270.BigMen: America rich in,126-7.Birch-bark: absence of in Montana,197.Birch-bark canoe: description of,19-24.Blackfeet, The:341-2.BlueRidge 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.Breadriot: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’sStation, fight at:113.Buchanan, Mrs. Sally:56.BuenaVentura:243.Buffaloes: first seen by Boone,103.“Bullboats”:197.Bullitt’sLick: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.Callowayfamily: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.Cañonof the Colorado:231,328.Canotdu Maître:23.Canotdu Nord:22,195,197.Caravantrade: 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. 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S.,45.Centerof population in 1860:220.CentralPacific 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.Civilgovernment: first written compact of,130.CivilWar, The: causes and results,354.Clark:71,287.Cleveland: founded,70.Cleveland, Moses:70.Coahuila:174.Coaloil: price of,214.CoastIndians:331.Cocke, General William:134.College: first in the West,126.Colorado, Grand Cañon of:231,328.Colter, John:335.Commerce, Western:191.“Commerceof the Prairies, The”:268.CommercialWest: 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.Coureursdu bois:194.Coole, William:103.Cooley, William:103.Cooper, Braxton:271.Cooper, Fennimore:45.Corn: price of in early days,189.Coronado:339.Costof living: greater to-day than in 1899,392.Courts: follow swiftly into Kentucky,112.Crittenden: orator at Boone’s burial in Kentucky,120.CreekWar: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.Dangerof a stage trip:213.“Darkand Bloody Ground,” The:114.Davis, Cushman K.:361.Day:333.Dechard:13.Dechert:13.De Munn:266.Dequelo, The:179.Detroit:111.Developmentof the West: influenced by difficult route of entry,49-50.“Diamondhitch”:205.“DiamondR” Transportation Company, The:210.Difficultiesof Western travel:212.Doan, Reverend Samuel:131.Dogs: use of in packing,196.Donelson, Rachel:55.Doylestown, Pennsylvania:385.Drake, Joseph:100.Dressof American frontiersmen:18.“Drivingthe 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.Emigrationto 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.Explorationsby men of Kentucky and Tennessee:43-44.Fannin:177.Fare, from Atchison to Helena:214.Farms: not wanted West of the Mississippi,193.“Fatherof 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.Finleyfamily, 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.FreeState of Franklin:124-5.Freightrates: 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.Furtrade: its home in the West,194;end of,200;end of the beginning of a new day, foot-note,238.“Furtrade, 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,
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.“Alamobaby”:180.Alarcon:328.Alaska:387.Alexander, Colonel: defeats Crockett for Congress,165.Alleghenymountains: 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.Americanfrontiersmen: dress of,18.AmericanFur 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.Bakerand Company, I. G.:210.Balanceof trade:393.Baltimore:45,168.Baltimoreand Ohio Railroad Co. organized:349.Bankexaminer: distance traveled by one,208.Batts, Thomas:101.Beale, Lieutenant:250.Bear, black:163.Beaver, skin: price of,190.Becknell, William:270-272.BeeHunter, The:176,181.Benton, Thomas:300.Benton, Fort:209.BeringSea:387.Berkeley, Bishop:38.Bicknell, William:270.BigMen: America rich in,126-7.Birch-bark: absence of in Montana,197.Birch-bark canoe: description of,19-24.Blackfeet, The:341-2.BlueRidge 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.Breadriot: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’sStation, fight at:113.Buchanan, Mrs. Sally:56.BuenaVentura:243.Buffaloes: first seen by Boone,103.“Bullboats”:197.Bullitt’sLick: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.Callowayfamily: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.Cañonof the Colorado:231,328.Canotdu Maître:23.Canotdu Nord:22,195,197.Caravantrade: 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. 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S.,45.Centerof population in 1860:220.CentralPacific 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.Civilgovernment: first written compact of,130.CivilWar, The: causes and results,354.Clark:71,287.Cleveland: founded,70.Cleveland, Moses:70.Coahuila:174.Coaloil: price of,214.CoastIndians:331.Cocke, General William:134.College: first in the West,126.Colorado, Grand Cañon of:231,328.Colter, John:335.Commerce, Western:191.“Commerceof the Prairies, The”:268.CommercialWest: 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.Coureursdu bois:194.Coole, William:103.Cooley, William:103.Cooper, Braxton:271.Cooper, Fennimore:45.Corn: price of in early days,189.Coronado:339.Costof living: greater to-day than in 1899,392.Courts: follow swiftly into Kentucky,112.Crittenden: orator at Boone’s burial in Kentucky,120.CreekWar: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.Dangerof a stage trip:213.“Darkand Bloody Ground,” The:114.Davis, Cushman K.:361.Day:333.Dechard:13.Dechert:13.De Munn:266.Dequelo, The:179.Detroit:111.Developmentof the West: influenced by difficult route of entry,49-50.“Diamondhitch”:205.“DiamondR” Transportation Company, The:210.Difficultiesof Western travel:212.Doan, Reverend Samuel:131.Dogs: use of in packing,196.Donelson, Rachel:55.Doylestown, Pennsylvania:385.Drake, Joseph:100.Dressof American frontiersmen:18.“Drivingthe 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.Emigrationto 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.Explorationsby men of Kentucky and Tennessee:43-44.Fannin:177.Fare, from Atchison to Helena:214.Farms: not wanted West of the Mississippi,193.“Fatherof 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.Finleyfamily, 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.FreeState of Franklin:124-5.Freightrates: 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.Furtrade: its home in the West,194;end of,200;end of the beginning of a new day, foot-note,238.“Furtrade, 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,
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.“Alamobaby”:180.Alarcon:328.Alaska:387.Alexander, Colonel: defeats Crockett for Congress,165.Alleghenymountains: 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.Americanfrontiersmen: dress of,18.AmericanFur 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.Bakerand Company, I. G.:210.Balanceof trade:393.Baltimore:45,168.Baltimoreand Ohio Railroad Co. organized:349.Bankexaminer: distance traveled by one,208.Batts, Thomas:101.Beale, Lieutenant:250.Bear, black:163.Beaver, skin: price of,190.Becknell, William:270-272.BeeHunter, The:176,181.Benton, Thomas:300.Benton, Fort:209.BeringSea:387.Berkeley, Bishop:38.Bicknell, William:270.BigMen: America rich in,126-7.Birch-bark: absence of in Montana,197.Birch-bark canoe: description of,19-24.Blackfeet, The:341-2.BlueRidge 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.Breadriot: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’sStation, fight at:113.Buchanan, Mrs. Sally:56.BuenaVentura:243.Buffaloes: first seen by Boone,103.“Bullboats”:197.Bullitt’sLick: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.Callowayfamily: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.Cañonof the Colorado:231,328.Canotdu Maître:23.Canotdu Nord:22,195,197.Caravantrade: 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.Caucasianpopulation: largest is that of America,374.Cavalier:37,53,75.Census: second of the U. S.,45.Centerof population in 1860:220.CentralPacific 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.Civilgovernment: first written compact of,130.CivilWar, The: causes and results,354.Clark:71,287.Cleveland: founded,70.Cleveland, Moses:70.Coahuila:174.Coaloil: price of,214.CoastIndians:331.Cocke, General William:134.College: first in the West,126.Colorado, Grand Cañon of:231,328.Colter, John:335.Commerce, Western:191.“Commerceof the Prairies, The”:268.CommercialWest: 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.Coureursdu bois:194.Coole, William:103.Cooley, William:103.Cooper, Braxton:271.Cooper, Fennimore:45.Corn: price of in early days,189.Coronado:339.Costof living: greater to-day than in 1899,392.Courts: follow swiftly into Kentucky,112.Crittenden: orator at Boone’s burial in Kentucky,120.CreekWar: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.Dangerof a stage trip:213.“Darkand Bloody Ground,” The:114.Davis, Cushman K.:361.Day:333.Dechard:13.Dechert:13.De Munn:266.Dequelo, The:179.Detroit:111.Developmentof the West: influenced by difficult route of entry,49-50.“Diamondhitch”:205.“DiamondR” Transportation Company, The:210.Difficultiesof Western travel:212.Doan, Reverend Samuel:131.Dogs: use of in packing,196.Donelson, Rachel:55.Doylestown, Pennsylvania:385.Drake, Joseph:100.Dressof American frontiersmen:18.“Drivingthe 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.Emigrationto 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.Explorationsby men of Kentucky and Tennessee:43-44.Fannin:177.Fare, from Atchison to Helena:214.Farms: not wanted West of the Mississippi,193.“Fatherof 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.Finleyfamily, 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.FreeState of Franklin:124-5.Freightrates: 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.Furtrade: its home in the West,194;end of,200;end of the beginning of a new day, foot-note,238.“Furtrade, 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,