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e_226" class="pginternal">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
  • Colonial life, 11
  • Colonial system, 127
  • Colonization, 312;
  • English and French contrasted, 13-14;
  • peaceful, 169
  • Colony of free humanity, 337-338
  • Columbus, Ohio, 162, 229
  • Combinations of capital and of labor, 245
  • Commencement seasons, 290
  • Commons, J. R., 327
  • Community, "beloved community," 358;
  • life, 347;
  • type of settlement, 73, 74, 125
  • Competition, 154, 203, 277, 308, 312
  • Compromise, 174, 198, 230, 236;
  • slavery, 140, 142
  • Concentration of power and wealth, 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., 206, 219, 304, 345;
  • Ohio Valley and, 166;
  • world politics, 246
  • Experts, 284, 285, 286
  • "Fall line," 4, 9, 68;
  • efforts to establish military frontier on, 84
  • Fairfax, Lord, 92, 123
  • 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
  • Forest Service, 320
  • Forest philosophy, 207
  • "Foresters," 63
  • Forests, 270, 293;
  • Middle West, 130
  • Fortified houses, 71
  • Fourierists, 263
  • 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, 151;
  • Populists, 238;
  • settlers, 237
  • Kansas City, 151
  • Kentucky, 19, 122, 162, 167, 168, 169, 192, 225, 253;
  • slavery, 174
  • King Philip's War 40, 46, 69
  • Kipling, Rudyard, "Foreloper," 270;
  • "Son of the English," 262
  • Labor, combinations, 245;
  • composition of laboring class, 316
  • Labor theorists, 303, 326
  • Lamar, L. Q. C. (1825-1893), 25
  • Lancaster, Mass., 48, 57, 61
  • Land, 328-329;
  • abundance, 274;
  • abundance, as basis of democracy, 191, 192;
  • alien tenure, 110;
  • free, exhausted, 244-245;
  • free Western, 211, 259;
  • fundamental fact in Western society, 211;
  • "mongering," 61;
  • see also Public lands
  • Land companies, 123, 347
  • Land grants, 9;
  • for schools and colleges, 74;
  • to railroads, 276
  • Land Ordinance of 1785, 132
  • Land policies, 10
  • Land system, "equality" principle in New England, 61, 62, 63;
  • Georgia, 97;
  • later federal, 123;
  • New England, 54;
  • New England conflicts, 75;
  • New York State, 80;
  • North Carolina, 95;
  • Old West, 122;
  • Pennsylvania, 101;
  • Virginia, 91;
  • Virginia grants to societies, 85
  • La Salle, 180
  • Laurentide glacier, 129
  • Law and order, 298, 344
  • Leadership, 182
  • Mississippi River, 7, 180
  • Railroads, administration by regions, 322;
  • Ch ns>, A. G., 17
  • Spanish America 181, 182, 295
  • Spanish frontier, 125
  • Spanish War, 246
  • Speculation, 319
  • Spoils system, 32, 254
  • Spotswood, Alexander, 22, 88, 90, 91, 113, 247;
  • Mississippi Valley and, 180
  • Spotsylvania County, Va., 90
  • Spreckles, Claus, 265
  • Squatter-sovereignty, 140
  • Squatters, 272, 343;
  • doctrines, 273, 328;
  • ideal, 320;
  • Middle West, 137;
  • Ohio Valley, 170;
  • Pennsylvania in 1726, 101
  • Stark, John, 103-104
  • State historical societies, 340
  • State lines, 127
  • State universities, 221, 354;
  • as safeguard of democracy, 286;
  • Michigan, 233;
  • peculiar power, 283-284;
  • pioneer ideals and, 269, 281
  • States, checkerboard, 218;
  • frontier pioneers' demand for statehood, 248;
  • groups, 159;
  • new states vs. Atlantic States, 207;
  • System of, 168
  • Staunton, Va., 92
  • Steam navigation, 7, 135, 171
  • Steel, 313
  • Steel and iron industry, 152
  • Stockbridge, 79
  • Stoddard, Solomon, 45
  • Success, 288, 309
  • Sudbury, 39
  • Suffrage, 192, 216;
  • basis, 249;
  • frontier and extension, 30;
  • manhood, 250, 352
  • Superior, Lake, 180, 314;
  • iron mines, 152
  • Swedes, 233
  • Symmes Purchase,

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