Absentee proprietors, 55, 297
Achievement, 309
Adams, Henry, 213
Adams, J. Q., 26, 192, 230
Agriculture, 314, 329; Middle
West, 149, 150
Agriculture, Department of, 320
Alamance, 119, 120
Alaska, 296
Albany congress of 1754, 15
Algonquin Indians, 130
Aliens, land tenure by, 110
Alleghany Mountains, 9, 18, 67;
as barrier to be overcome, 195
Allen, Ethan, 54
Allen, W. V., 220
American Historical Assoc., 159
American history, social forces,
311; survey of recent, 311
American life, distinguishing fea-
ture, 2
American people, 339
American spirit, 306, 336, 337
American System," 171, 172
Americanization, effective, 4
Arid lands, 9, 147, 219, 239, 245,
278
Aristocracy, 250, 254, 257, 275
Army posts, frontier, 16; proto-
types, 47
Asia, 296
Association, voluntary, 343, 344,
358
Astor's American Fur Co., 6, 143
Atlantic coast, as early frontier, 4;
Mississippi Valley and, 190, 191;
Northern, History, 295
Atlantic frontier, composition, 12
Atlantic states, 207, 208
Augusta, Ga., 98
Autocracy, 344
Back country, 68, 70; democracy
of, 248; New England, 75
Backwoods society, 212
Backwoodsmen, 163, 164
Bacon, Francis, 286
Bacon's Rebellion, 84, 247, 251, 301
Baltimore, trade, 108
Bancroft, George, 168
Bank, 171, 254, 325
Bedford, Pa., 5
Beecher, Lyman, 35
Bell, John, 192
Benton, T. H., 26, 35, 192, 325, 328
Berkshires, 60, 71, 77
Beverley, Robert, 85, 91; manor,
"Birch seal," 78
Black Hills, 145
Blackmar, F. W., 238
Blank patents, 95
Blood-feud, 253
Blount, William, 187
Blue Ridge, 90, 99
Boone, A. J., 19
Boone, Daniel, 18, 105, 124, 165,
206
Boston, trade, 108
Boutmy, E. G., 211
Braddock, Edward, 181, 324
Brattle, Thomas, 56
British and Middle West, 350
Chicago, 137, 150, 151, 180, 350;
character, 232
Chillicothe, 133, 223
Cincinnati, 133, 151, 162, 223, 231,
232
Cincinnati and Charleston R. R.,
174
Cities, 297, 316–317; northeastern,
294-295; seaboard, 194, 195,
196; three periods of develop-
ment, 195
Civil War, 356; Middle West and,
142; Mississippi Valley and, 201;
Northwest and, 217
Clark, G. R., 131, 167, 186
Clark, J. B., 332
Class distinctions, 280, 285
Clay, Henry, 26, 168, 171, 172, 173,
174, 192, 197, 206, 213, 216, 226,
241, 304, 325
Cleaveland, Gen. Moses, 133, 222,
257
Cleveland, 133, 150, 223, 231, 232
Clinton, De Witt, 195, 196
Coal supply, 313
Coast, Atlantic, 206; destiny, 295;
interior and, antagonisms, 110
Coeducation, 353
Colden, Cadwallader, 80
Cattle raising in Virginia, 88, 89, 92 Colony of free humanity, 337–338
Compromise, 174, 198, 230, 236;
Concentration of power and wealth, Deerfield, 48, 52, 58, 70
245, 261, 266, 280
Concord, Mass., 39
Concurrent majority, 118
Congregational church, 74, 112
Congress and frontiersmen, 252-
253
Connecticut, frontier towns, 42, 45,
53; land policy, 76
Connecticut River, 52, 53, 72
Connecticut Valley, 63, 73
Conquest, 269
Conscience, American, 328
Constitution, U. S., 209, 244
Constitutional convention of 1787,
249
Constitutions, state, 121, 252, 352;
reconstruction, 192
Coöperation, voluntary, 165, 257,
258
Corn, areas, 149; belt, 151
Corporations, 265, 328
Cotton culture, 28, 139, 255; early
extension, 7; transfer from the
East to Mississippi Valley, 194
Cotton Kingdom," 174, 189, 194,
198
Coureurs de bois, 182
Cow pens, 16, 88
Crockett, Davy, 105
Crops, migration, 149
Currency, 148; evil, 32; expansion,
210
Cutler, Manasseh, 141
Dairy interests in Wisconsin, 234,
236
Dakotas, settlement, 145, 146
Darien, Ga., 98
Davis, Jefferson, 105, 139, 174
De Bow, J. D. B., 197
De Bow's Review, 217
Democracy, 32, 54, 306; doubts of,
280; established in Old West,
107; free land and, 274; frontier,
early, 106; frontier and, 30, 31,
247, 249; Gookin on, 307; in
early 18th century, 98; Jack-
sonian, 192, 302, 342-343; Jeffer-
sonian, 250, 251; magnitude of
achievement in the West, 258;
Middle West, 154; Mississippi
Valley, 183; neighborhood, 346;
new type in West, 210, 216; Ohio
Valley, influence, 172; Ohio Val-
ley and, 175; organized, 357;
origin, 293; outcome of Ameri-
can experiences, 266; pressure
on the universities, 283; signifi-
cance of Mississippi Valley in
promoting, 190; Upland South,
165; Western contributions, 243;
Western ideals, 261; see also Pio-
neer democracy
Democratic party, 327, 329; basis,
248; Middle Western wing, 352
Democratic-Republican party, 250
Denver, Colo., 19
De Tocqueville. See Tocqueville
Detroit, 135, 150
Development, American, 205, 221;
four changes, 244; personal, 271;
significant decade, 246-247;
study of, 10; true point of view,
3; Western, 218
D'Iberville. See Iberville
Discovery, 270, 293, 301, 306
Doddridge, Joseph, 115
Dogs for hunting Indians, 45
Douglas, S. A., 140; Lincoln de-
bates, 230
Douglass, William, 109
Down east, 79
Dracut, 111
Dreams, 301, 339
Duel, 253
Duluth, 150, 151, 234
Dunkards, 263
Expansion, 206, 219, 304, 345; Ohio
Valley and, 166; world politics,
"Fall line," 4, 9, 68; efforts to
establish military frontier on, 84
Dwight, Timothy (1752–1817), 63; Fairfax, Lord, 92, 123
fears of pioneer class, 251
East, efforts to restrict advance of
frontier, 33, 34; fears of the
West, 208; out of touch with
West, 18
Economic forces and political in-
stitutions, 243
Economic historian, 332
Economic legislation and Ohio Val-
ley, 170
Education, 282; Middle West, 156
Edwards, Jonathan, 63
Egleston, Melville, 55
Eliot, C. W., on corporation, 265;
on democracy and slavery, 256
Emerson, R. W., 353; on Lincoln,
256
England, decrease of dependence
on, 23; Mississippi Valley and,
180, 186; Old Northwest and,
131, 134
English pioneers, 270
Far East, 315
Far West, 315, 341
Farm lands, 297
Farm machinery, 276
Farmers, 238, 239
Farmer's frontier, 12, 16, 18
Federal colonial system, 168, 169
Federal Reserve districts, 322
Fertility, 129
Field, Marshall, 265
Finance, 318, 325; pioneer ideas,
148
Fire-arms and Indians, 13
Firmin, Giles, 56
Food supply, 279, 294, 314
Foreign parentage, Indiana and
Illinois, 232; Michigan, 233;
Western States, 237; Wisconsin,
233-234
Foreign policy, 168, 219
Foreign Service, 320
Forest philosophy, 207
"Foresters," 63
English settlers in Michigan and Forests, 270, 293; Middle West,
English stock and English speech, Fortified houses, 71
Equality, 274; New England, 61,
62, 63; Western settlers, 212
Erie Canal, 7, 136, 195, 197
Europe, American democracy and,
282; how America reacted on,
3; Southeastern, 294, 295, 316
Europeans, 267
Evolution, American, as key to his-
tory, 11
France, efforts to revive empire in
America, 167; Middle West and,
131; Mississippi Valley and, 180,
186; western exploration, 163;
Franchise, 249–250, 252
Franklin, Benjamin, Mississippi
Valley and, 182; on the Germans,
109
Free Soil party, 141, 173, 217
French explorers, 163
French frontier, 125
French Huguenots, 105
French settlers in Michigan and
Wisconsin, 226
Frontier, conservative attitude to-
ward advance, 63; definition, 3,
41; demand for independent
statehood, 248; efforts to check
and restrict it, 33; evil effects,
32; extinction, 1, 9, 38, 39, 321;
farmers, 239, 240; first official,
39, 54; French, 125; importance
as a military training school, 15;
influence toward democracy, 247,
249; kinds and modes of ad-
vance, 12; Massachusetts, 65;
military, of Old West, 106-107;
religious aspects, 36; Spanish,
125; towns in Massachusetts, 42,
45, 53, 70; various comparisons,
10
Frontiersmen, 206, 209, 212; in
Congress, 252-253; Mississippi
Valley, 182; Virginia idea, 86
Fulton, Robert, 171
Fur trade, 13; England after Revo-
lution, 131; Hudson River, 80;
Southern, Old West, 87
Gallatin, Albert, 191, 252, 317
Galveston, 202
Garfield, J. A., 241
Geographic factors, 329
Geographic provinces, 158
Georgia, 174, 196; restriction of
land tenure, 97; settlement, 97
Germanic germs, 3, 4
Germans, 263; in New York in
early times, 5; Middle West and,
137-138, 146; Palatine, 5, 32, 82,
100, 109, 124; political exiles,
349; sectaries, 164; Wisconsin,
Grant, U. S., 142
Granville, Lord, 95, 123
Great Lakes, 128, 149, 150, 173, 297
Great Plains, 8, 128, 147; Indian
trade and war, 144
Great Valley, 100; colonization,
100-101
Greater South, 174
Greeley, Horace, 101
Green Mountain Boys, 78
Greenback movement, 148, 203,
218, 276
Greenway manor, 92
Groseilliers, 180
Groton, 48, 57
Grund, F. J., 7
Grundy, Felix, 192
Gulf coast, 295
Gulf States, 141; occupation, 139
Hammond, J. H., on slavery prob-
lem in the Mississippi Valley, 198
Hanna, Marcus, 265
Harriman, E. H., 280, 318
Harrison, W. H., 168, 173, 189, 192,
213, 255
Hart, A. B., 177
Hartford, 76
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