ketch, 19

Pittsburgh, 104, 127, 136, 154-155, 161, 265, 299, 314, 324

Plain people, 256, 267

Political institutions, 243;
frontier and, 24

Political parties, 249, 324

Polk, J. K., 105, 192, 255

Pontiac, 131, 144

Poor whites, 224

Population center, 222

Populists, 32, 127, 147, 155, 203, 220, 247, 277, 281, 305;
Kansas, 238

Prairie Plains, 129

Prairie states, 239

Prairies, 218, 236, 276, 348;
settlement, 145, 147

Presbyterians, 105, 106, 109, 164

Presidency, 254;
Mississippi Valley and, 192;
Ohio Valley and, 175;
Old Northwest and, 222

Prices, 313

Princeton college, 106

Pritchett, H. S., 282

Privilege, 192;
conflict against, 120, 121

Proclamation of 1763, 181

Progressive Republican movement, 321

Prohibitionists, 240

"Proletariat," 285

Property, 210;
as basis of suffrage, 249

Prosperity, 281

Protection. _See_ Tariff

Provinces, geographic, 158

Provincialism, desirable, 157, 159

Prussianism, 337, 356

Public lands, 25, 132, 303;
policy of America, 26, 170;
Western lands, first debates on, 191

Public schools, 266, 282

Puget Sound, 298

Puritan ideals, 73, 75, 78;
German conflict with, 138

Puritanism, 27

Puritans and Indians, 44

Purrysburg, 97

Pynchon, John, 51, 52

Quakers, 105, 112, 164;
in settlement of Indiana, 224

Quebec, Province of, 131

Quincy, Josiah, 208

Radisson, Sieur de, 180

Railroads, administration by regions, 322;
Chicago and, 150;
continental, 247;
in early fifties, 137;
land grants to, 276;
Mississippi Valley, 304;
northwestern, 145;
origin, 14;
speculative movement, 276;
statistics, 314;
western, 218

Rancher's frontier, 12, 16

Ranches, 9, 16;
Virginia, 88

Rappahannock River, 84, 90;
settlement, 93

Reclamation, 298

Reclamation Service, 320

Red Cloud (Indian), 144

Red River valley, 145

Redemptioners, 22, 90, 97, 100

Reformers, 281, 324;
social, 262-263

Regulation, War of the, 248

Regulators, 116, 119, 120, 212

Religion of the Middle West, 345

Religious freedom of the Old West, 121

Religious spirit, Ohio Valley, 164, 165;
Upland South, 164, 165

Rensselaerswyck, 80

Representation, 114, 117, 120

Republican party, 327

Research, 284, 287, 331

Revolution, American, 30

Rhodes, J. F., 24

Richmond, Va., 108

Rights, equal, 326-327, 338;
of man, 192

Ripley, W. Z., 316

Robertson, James,