edom and independence, 183

"Western World," 161, 166, 206, 302;
basis of its civilization, 177

Wheat, 329;
areas, 149

Whig party, 27, 173, 304, 351

White, Abraham, 240

White, Hugh, 192

Whitman, Walt, 336

Wilderness, 262, 269, 270, 279

Wilkinson, James, 169, 187

Williams, John (1664-1729), 70

Williams, Roger, 262

Windsor, 76

Winthrop, John, 62

Wisconsin, 137, 138, 218, 294, 341;
development and elements, 233-234;
German element, 227, 228, 236;
New England element, 228;
settlement, 226, 227

Wood, Abraham, 98

Woodstock, 59

World's fairs, 156

World-politics, 246, 315

Wyoming Valley, 79, 124

Yemassee War, 95

"Young America" doctrine, 140

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Transcriber's Notes:

The following words appear in the text with and without hyphens.
They have been left as in the original.

battle-field battlefield
coast-wise coastwise
cow-pens cowpens
head-rights headrights
iron-master ironmaster
new-comers newcomers
non-sectional nonsectional
out-vote outvote
rail-splitter railsplitters
sea-board seaboard
slave-holding slaveholding
tide-water tidewater
un-won unwon

The following corrections have been made to the text:

page 25--as the nation marched westward.[period is missing in
original]

page 40, footnote 40:5--"American Colonies in the Seventeenth
Century,"[quotation mark missing in original]

page 48, footnote 48:4--Sheldon, "Deerfield,"[quotation mark
missing in original]

page 49--your honours [original has opening parenthesis]we
haue but litel laft

page 53--the frontier Towns.[original has extraneous quotation
mark]

page 68, footnote 68:1--Powell, "Physiographic
Regions[original has extraneous single quote]"

page 75, footnote 75:1--Egleston[original has Eggleston],
"Land System of the New England Colonies,"

page 86--at least three foot within the ground."[quotation
mark missing in original]

page 96, footnote 96:3--(N. Y., 1899)[closing parenthesis
missing in original], pp. 149, 151;

page 117, footnote 117:3--pp. 440-447[original has 440-437]

page 118--it was being exploited,[original has period]

page 118, footnote 118:2--N. C.[original has N .C.]