INDEX



Northwest Territory-Cont'd
   211-14; see also names of
   States
Ohio, settlement, 98 et seq.;
  routes to, 102, et seq.; formed
  from part of Northwest Terri-
  tory, 132; admitted as State
  (1802),  132, 165; means of
  transportation in, 157; fron-
  tier settlers in, 172; Southern-
  ers in, 174-75
Ohio Company, 39, 80--81
Ohio River, emigrants on, 106-09
Ordinance of 1787, 77-78, 131,
  180, 181, 182
Oswego, Pontiac surrenders at, 18
Ottawa (Ill.), French settlement
  near, 2
Ouiatanon, 35
Paine, R. D., The Fight for a
  Free Sea cited, 153 (note)
Paris, Treaty of (1783), 20, 22, 75
Parkman, Francis, quoted, 5-6,
  19, 32-33
Perry, Commodore O. H., 154
Pike, Lieutenant Z. M., 190
Pitt, Fort, 15, 16, 17, 34, 36
Pittman, Captain, 34
Pontiac, Indian chief, 3; con-
  spiracy, 9 et seq.; power
  broken, 17; further plots, 34;
  meets Croghan, 35
Presqu'isle (Erie), council with
  Indians at, 17
Proclamation of 1763, 24, 24
  (note), 41-42
"Prophet," see Laulewasikaw
Prophet's Town, 139
Putnam, General Rufus, 80, 81,
  82
Quebec, province provided under
  Proclamation of 1763, 24,
  24 (note)
Quebec Act (1774), 41-45

Radisson, Pierre, 189
Raisin River, 153



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Rayneval, secretary to French
   Foreign Minister, 74
 Recovery, Fort, 91
 Red Bird, Indian chief, 196, 197
 Revolution, effects on West, 45
 Rocheblave, commandant at
 Kaskaskia, 54
 Rogers, Major Robert, 8, 4
 Roosevelt, Theodore, quoted, 61,
   156

Sackville, Fort, 55
Saint Ange de Bellerive, 18, 19,
  33, 36
St. Anthony, Falls of, Henne-
  pin reaches, 190
St. Clair, General Arthur, 81,
  84, 85-87, 89
St. Joseph, Fort, 69-70
St. Louis, French settlement
  near, 2; French town, 18;
  established (1764), 32; Saint-
  Ange retires to, 36; under
  Spanish rule, 69; education in,
  171
St. Louis, Fort, i
Ste. Genevieve, 2
Schooleraft, Henry, 191
Scioto Company, 81
"Seven Ranges," 80, 99-100
Sheridan,  Lieutenant-General
  P. H., 100
Sherman, John, 100
Sherman, General W. T., 100
Sinclair, Lieutenant-Governor
  Patrick, 69
Slavery, 180-84
Snelling, Fort, 196
Spain, cessions to, 18, 28; ally
  of France, 69; seizes Fort
  St. Joseph, 69-70; American
  policy, 72-73; plan presented
  at peace negotiation, 73-74
Stanwix, Fort, Treaty of, 78
"Starved Rock," 2
Sterling, Captain Thomas, 36
Stillman, Major, 202O
Symmes, Judge J. C., of N. J.,
  82