territorial advances of the people of the;
the Southwest won by the people themselves;
the Northwest won by the nation;
the boundaries of, II;
Vigo, Francis, a St. Louis trader, II;
bears news from Vincennes to Clark;
a public-spirited patriot;
loans silver to the Virginian government;
Vincennes, situation of, I;
confusion at, II;
proceedings of the rebels at;
Virginia, French, Irish, and German mixture in, I;
makes a treaty with the Cherokee Indians;
boundaries claimed by;
border ravaged by Indians;
Virginians, Lord Dunmore's war fought wholly by them, I;
the only foes dreaded by the Indians;
styled by the Indians "Long Knives,";
gather at the Great Island of the Holston;
march against;
the Cherokees;
reach the Big Island of the French Broad;
ravage the Cherokee towns;
return home;
Walton, Major Jesse, serves under Sevier, II;
Ward, Nancy, brings overtures of peace, II;
her family respected;
Warfare, ferocious individual, II;
Washington College founded by Doak, II;
Washington District. See Holston settlements;
Washington, Gen. Geo., unable to help Clark, II;
Watauga Commonwealth, 1769, date of first permanent settlement, I;
supposed by settlers to form part of Virginia;
discovered to be part of North Carolina;
immigration from North Carolina to;
character of the settlers;
palisaded villages in;
life of the settlers;
their amusements;
settlers organize a government;
articles of the Watauga Association;
their first convention held at Robertson's Station;
plan of civil government;
endures for six years;
settlers ordered to leave their lands;
settlers successfully solve the problem of self-government;
makes a treaty with Cherokees;
attacked by the Cherokees;
Watauga Fort, the, commanded by Sevier and Robertson, I;
attacked by the Indians;
the Indians beaten back;
Watauga River, a feeder of the Tennessee River, I;
first settlement on the banks of the;
Watts, John, Sevier's guide against the Chickamauga towns, II
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, threatens the Indians, II;
Weas, the, living with the Miamis, I;
Wells, his noble deed, II;
West, the, the winning of, II;
actually conquered;
definitely secured by diplomacy;
West Florida, its boundaries, I;
Wetzel, Lewis, a formidable hunter, II;
his adventur