INDEX

319

Trumball County, Ohio, created,

Tupper, Rufus, 105

Umatilla river, 238 Uniontown, Pennsylvania, S3 TJtica, New York, 147, 156

Van Dyke, Henry, quoted, 38 Venable, William H., quoted, 153 Vicksburg, Mississippi, 118 Virginia, 17

Wabash river, 77, 126

Wagon of Marcus Whitman, 209,

212, 214, 216 Wagoner, bills of, 71 Waiilatpu, Oregon, 213, 216, 223,

228

Walk-in-the-Water,   first steamboat on Great Lakes, 153 Walla Walla, Fort, 223 Warren, Ohio, 150 Warrior's Path, Kentucky, 21 Washington, District of, 19 Washington, George, 52, 57, 66 Washington, Pennsylvania, 53, 75 Washington's Bottoms, 66 Washington, Whitman goes to, in

behalf of Oregon, 223 Washington State, 207 Watson, Elkanah, 144 Wayne County, Pennsylvania, 141 Watauga Association, 19, 28 Watauga river, 19, 20 Weber Canon, 257 Wellington, Ohio, 172

Western Reserve, origin of, 143

Westport (Kansas City), Missouri, 188, 218

Wheelbarrow, going to California with a, 241

Wheeling, Virginia, 53, 56, 97, 99, US, 294

Whitman, Dr. Marcus, 208, 222, 223, 224, 225, 238; Mrs. Marcus,

208

Whitman, Walt, quoted, 13, 197 Whittier, John G., quoted, 283 Wilderness Road, 22, 26, 27, 28, 33 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 141 Willamette river, 208 Wills Creek Road, 51, 54 Wilson, Alexander, on the Ohio

river, 121 Wisconsin made a state, 178 Wisconsin   river transportation,

170

Wislizenus, F. A., on Oregon Trail, 218

Woods, John, length of his journey from England to Illinois, 127

Wyoming, Pennsylvania, 142

Yankton, Dakota, 299 Yellowstone river, 280, 302 Yadkin river, North Carolina, 20 Yough, Forks of, 66 Youghiogheny river, 51, 106

Zane's Road opened, 111 Zanesville, Ohio, 75

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