  - 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,
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- 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, 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, 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. | | 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 | |
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