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INDEX

embodiment of pioneer period, 255-256; Ohio Valley, influence of, 175

Lincoln, C. H , 113

Litchfield, 71, 76, 124

Livingston manor, 81, 82

Locofocos, 303, 326, 348

Log cabin, 338

" Log cabin campaign," 173

London Company, 301

Loria, Achille, 11

Louisiana, 180, 208

Louisiana Purchase, 25, 34, 140,

    167, 213, 251; effect on Mississippi Valley, 189-190

Louisville, 162

Lowell, J. R., on Lincoln, 255

Loyal Land Co., 123, 182

Lumber industry, 152; Wisconsin, 234-235

Lumbermen, 272, 273

Lynch law, 212, 272; New England, 78

McKinley, William, 236, 237, 241

Magnitude, 258, 260, 276

Maine, 52-53

Maine coast, 79

Mallet brothers, 180

Manila, battle of, 247

Manorial practice in New York, 83

Marietta, 124, 132, 223, 257

" Mark colonies," 70

Marquette, Jacques, 180

Martineau, Harriet, 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, 232; 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