Spaniards;
starts across continent with Lewis;
their voyage up the Missouri;
their wonder at the strange animals;
their good qualities as explorers;
their attitude towards the Indians;
they halt at Mandan for the winter;
start west in the spring;
travel through vast hunting grounds;
cross the Rocky Mountains;
their return voyage;
adventures and accidents;
their return;
their after-fates.
Clay, Henry, and Burr.
Cocke, William, "the mulberry man".
Collins, envoy of De Lemos.
Colter.
Connecticut Reserve.
County, the unit of organization.
Creeks,
make treaties;
raid on Georgians;
bad faith of;
(_See_ Indians.)
Cumberland District,
ravaged by Indians;
the settlers retaliate;
rapid growth of.
Currency in the backwoods.
Darke, Colonel,
gallantry of, at St. Clair's defeat.
Daveiss, Joseph H.,
Burr's most formidable foe;
ingratitude, shown to, by Jefferson.
Defiance, Fort, built by Wayne.
Democratic societies, seditious conduct of.
Denny, St. Clair's aide,
at St. Clair's defeat;
carries the news to Washington.
Disunionists, folly and treachery of.
Doak, founds a college.
Dorchester, Lord,
his speech;
correspondence with land speculators.
Dunlop's Station, attack on.
Education, in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Elliott, British partisan.
Ellicott, Andrew, Surveyor-General at Natchez.
Explorers, of the Far West.
Fallen Timbers, battle of.
Federalist party, wrong in its attitude
towards West.
Filibusters at New Orleans.
Flat boatmen.
Folch, Spanish Governor.
Frontiersmen,
tend to retrograde;
importance of;
hatred of Indians;
some of them profit by Indian wars;
characteristics of;
fondness for a lonely life;
engage in river trade;
but fundamentally farmers;
build few and small towns;
capacity for self-help;
traits of those who became permanent settlers;
their political organization;
join together for common objects;
hardness of life;
existence in a log cabin;
Americans the pioneers;
failure of old-world immigrants on frontier;
pioneers suspicious of merchants;
sometimes repudiate debts;
viciousness of their military system;
their individualism in religious matters;
they strain against Spanish boundaries;
hated and feared by Spaniards;
the