177.SanFrancisco:256.SanJacinto:182.SantaAnna: marches on San Antonio,174;his peons march toward the Alamo,179.Santa Férailway:279-280.“Santa FéTrail, Old”:270.Santa Fétrail: not a transcontinental trail,262;extent of,276;distances and directions of,276-280;a fate finger pointing to Mexico,285.“SawBuck,” 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.Sevierand Robertson: riflemen of,58.“Shakes,” The:157.ShawneeIndians capture Daniel Boone:111.Shelby, Captain Evan:128.Shenandoah—Kentucky stock:73.Shiells, Dr. Hugh:79.Shiells, Kitty:79.SierraNevada mountains:243-4.SiouxIndians, The:195.SixNations: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.“Snuffingthe candle”:16.Socialism: captains of industry likely to cause the spread of,398.“Societyof Friends”: records of,77.South, The: mother of the West,40;opens Western territory,189;is to-day American,356;little understood,366.“SouthSeas, The”:129.SouthernPacific Railway, The:365.Southernriflemen: 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.Stagelines:207.Stagetrip: description of,213.Starof 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.Sumptermule: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.Timberlands: 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.TransylvaniaUniversity:79.Travel: difficulties of in the West,212.Travis:177.Travois, The:196.Tucker, Benjamin:41.TwoMedicine: The valley of,341.Ulster, Ireland:84.UlsterScots:83-86.UnionPacific 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.VictoriaCross:115.Villard, Henry:368.VirginiaCity, 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.Wagontrain: 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, Spainand England,59.WashingtonCollege:132.WashingtonDistrict: 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.WataugaArticles of Association:130.Watertrail: 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-boundman: The American,51.Westernman, The: his reliance and development,67.Westwardmovement: 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.Whitepeople: portion of country inhabited by them in 1800,45.“Whoa-haw”:299.“Widowand 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.Willsof Bucks countians:80.Women: two go West along Oregon trail,297.Wyeth, Nathaniel J.:289.Yazoo:140.YellowstoneNational Park:335.Young, Ewing:230.
177.SanFrancisco:256.SanJacinto:182.SantaAnna: marches on San Antonio,174;his peons march toward the Alamo,179.Santa Férailway:279-280.“Santa FéTrail, Old”:270.Santa Fétrail: not a transcontinental trail,262;extent of,276;distances and directions of,276-280;a fate finger pointing to Mexico,285.“SawBuck,” 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.Sevierand Robertson: riflemen of,58.“Shakes,” The:157.ShawneeIndians capture Daniel Boone:111.Shelby, Captain Evan:128.Shenandoah—Kentucky stock:73.Shiells, Dr. Hugh:79.Shiells, Kitty:79.SierraNevada mountains:243-4.SiouxIndians, The:195.SixNations: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.“Snuffingthe candle”:16.Socialism: captains of industry likely to cause the spread of,398.“Societyof Friends”: records of,77.South, The: mother of the West,40;opens Western territory,189;is to-day American,356;little understood,366.“SouthSeas, The”:129.SouthernPacific Railway, The:365.Southernriflemen: 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.Stagelines:207.Stagetrip: description of,213.Starof 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.Sumptermule: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.Timberlands: 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.TransylvaniaUniversity:79.Travel: difficulties of in the West,212.Travis:177.Travois, The:196.Tucker, Benjamin:41.TwoMedicine: The valley of,341.Ulster, Ireland:84.UlsterScots:83-86.UnionPacific 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.VictoriaCross:115.Villard, Henry:368.VirginiaCity, 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.Wagontrain: 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, Spainand England,59.WashingtonCollege:132.WashingtonDistrict: 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.WataugaArticles of Association:130.Watertrail: 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-boundman: The American,51.Westernman, The: his reliance and development,67.Westwardmovement: 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.Whitepeople: portion of country inhabited by them in 1800,45.“Whoa-haw”:299.“Widowand 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.Willsof Bucks countians:80.Women: two go West along Oregon trail,297.Wyeth, Nathaniel J.:289.Yazoo:140.YellowstoneNational Park:335.Young, Ewing:230.
177.SanFrancisco:256.SanJacinto:182.SantaAnna: marches on San Antonio,174;his peons march toward the Alamo,179.Santa Férailway:279-280.“Santa FéTrail, Old”:270.Santa Fétrail: not a transcontinental trail,262;extent of,276;distances and directions of,276-280;a fate finger pointing to Mexico,285.“SawBuck,” 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.Sevierand Robertson: riflemen of,58.“Shakes,” The:157.ShawneeIndians capture Daniel Boone:111.Shelby, Captain Evan:128.Shenandoah—Kentucky stock:73.Shiells, Dr. Hugh:79.Shiells, Kitty:79.SierraNevada mountains:243-4.SiouxIndians, The:195.SixNations: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.“Snuffingthe candle”:16.Socialism: captains of industry likely to cause the spread of,398.“Societyof Friends”: records of,77.South, The: mother of the West,40;opens Western territory,189;is to-day American,356;little understood,366.“SouthSeas, The”:129.SouthernPacific Railway, The:365.Southernriflemen: 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.Stagelines:207.Stagetrip: description of,213.Starof 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.Sumptermule: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.Timberlands: 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.TransylvaniaUniversity:79.Travel: difficulties of in the West,212.Travis:177.Travois, The:196.Tucker, Benjamin:41.TwoMedicine: The valley of,341.Ulster, Ireland:84.UlsterScots:83-86.UnionPacific 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.VictoriaCross:115.Villard, Henry:368.VirginiaCity, 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.Wagontrain: 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, Spainand England,59.WashingtonCollege:132.WashingtonDistrict: 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.WataugaArticles of Association:130.Watertrail: 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-boundman: The American,51.Westernman, The: his reliance and development,67.Westwardmovement: 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.Whitepeople: portion of country inhabited by them in 1800,45.“Whoa-haw”:299.“Widowand 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.Willsof Bucks countians:80.Women: two go West along Oregon trail,297.Wyeth, Nathaniel J.:289.Yazoo:140.YellowstoneNational Park:335.Young, Ewing:230.