arriet, 214, 303, 339

Massachusetts, attempt to locate frontier line, 39;
frontier, 65;
frontier towns, 42, 45, 53, 70;
locating towns before settlement, 76

Mather, Cotton, attitude as to advancing frontier, 63

Mesabi mines, 152, 234

Mendon, 57

Methodists, 238

Mexico, 295

Michigan, 135-136, 137;
development and resources, 233;
settlement, 226, 228

Middle region, 27;
in formation of the Old West, 79;
typical American, 28

Middle West, agriculture, 150;
Canada and, 128;
Civil War and, 142;
early society, 153-154;
education, 282;
elements of settlement--Northern and Southern, 346, 351;
Europe and, 282;
flow of population into, 132-133;
forests, 130;
Germans and, 137-138;
Germans and Scandinavians, 146;
idealism, 153;
immigrants of varied nationalities, 349;
importance, 126, 128;
increase of settlement in the fifties, 142-143;
industrial organism, 149;
meaning of term, 126;
nationalism, 142;
natural resources, 129;
New England element, 137;
peculiarity and influence, 347;
pioneer democracy, 335;
settlement, 135, 342;
slavery question and, 139;
southern zone, 138

Migration, 21, 237, 337;
communal vs. individual, 125;
crops, 149;
interstate, 224;
labor, 62;
New England, and land policy, 77

Militant expansive movement, 105

Military frontier, 41, 47;
early form, 47;
Old West, significance, 106-107;
Virginia in later 17th century, 83, 84

Milwaukee, 137, 227, 236, 350

Miner's frontier, 12

Mining camps, 9

Mining laws, 10

Minneapolis, 137, 151, 234

Minnesota, 143, 144, 237;
economic development, 234;
Historical Society, 335, 338-339

Missions to the Indians, 79

Mississippi Company, 123, 182

Mississippi River, 7, 9, 142, 185, 194, 345

Mississippi Valley, 10, 139, 166-167, 324;
beginning of stratification, 197;
Civil War and, 201;
democracy and, 190;
early population, 183;
economic progress after 1812, 194;
England's efforts to control, 180-181;
extent, 179;
French explorers in, 180;
frontiersmen's allegiance, 186-187;
idealism, social order, 203-204;
industrial growth after the Civil War, 201-202;
political power and growth from 1810 to 1840, 193;
primitive history, 179;
question of severance from the Union, 187;
significance in American history, 177, 185;
slavery struggle and, 201;
social forces, early, 183

Missouri, 192

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