Chapter V: Valverde, fight at, 476

Vancouver, history of, 546-549

Vancouver the explorer, 537, 627

Van Horn, Col. R.T., 389, 390

Vargas, Gov., 462-464

Varnum, James M., 6

Vasouver, Lieut., 552

Victoria, Gov., 662

Vigil, Gov. Juan B., 472

Vigilance Committee, _see_ San Francisco

Vigo, Francis, 185, 186, 190

Villard, Henry, 560

Vincennes, 150, 152;
W.H. Smith on, 169-196;
prehistoric times, 169-171;
early explorers, 171;
French settlement of, 173-175;
English rule, 175-178;
captured by George Rogers Clark, 178-191;
Indiana Territory organized, 191;
later history, 193-196

Vineyard, James R., 246

Virginia cedes western territory to United States, 191

Vizcaino, 572, 574, 620, 622, 643, 648

W

Wabache, _see_ Wabash

Wabash, place of the, in history, 169, 170, 171, 189

Wade, J.H., 413

Walker, Joel, 468

Walker, T.B., 287

Wallace, Col., relieves Cincinnati, 74

Wallace, Gen. Lew, at Cincinnati, 78;
at Santa Fé, 478

Walla Walla, 518;
massacre at, 556

Walrond, Madison, 380

War, _see_ Revolution;
of 1812, 27, 114-116, 140-142, 351;
Mexican, 432, 469, 580;
Civil, 476, 498, 521, 614;
with Spain, 422

Ward, Artemus, 50

Warre, Lieut., 552

Washburn Observatory, 256

Washington, Booker T., 233

Washington, George, 5, 58, 66-68, 197, 644

Washington, Indians visit, 350

Wayne, Gen. Anthony, defeats Indians, 15, 68-72, 152

Wea Town, 172, 175

Webster, Daniel, 84, 311, 312, 362, 479

Wentworth, John, 205

West, Judge E.P., quoted, 380

_Western Journal of Commerce_, 389

Western Reserve, the, 40

Western Reserve University, 39

Westport Landing, 382, 384

Wetherell, O.D., 213

Whaiama, 513

Whetzels, the, 152

Whininger, George, 420

Whipple, Abraham, 6

Whitman, massacre of, 556

Wicks, Rev. Dr., 674

Widney, Dr. J.P., 682

Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 615

Wilkinson, Gen. James, 349

Willamette, first settlers on the, 549-552

Willamette Falls, 552

Williams College, 37

Williams, Rev. Eleazar, 144, 145

Williams, Judge George H., 566

Williamsburg, Col. Henry Hamilton sent to, 190

Willis, N.P., 270

Wilson, B.D., 672

Winslow, Florence E., on Los Angeles, 645-684

Winter Quarters, Nebraska, 408, 409

Wisconsin State Historical Society, 258

Wisconsin Territory, 235

Wolfe at Quebec, 106

Wood, C.E.S., 566

Woodbridge, Dudley, 21

Woodward, Judge, at Detroit, 101-105

Wool, Gen., 592

Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 50

Woolworth, James M., 420

World's Fair of 1893, 228

Wright, Ed., 320

Wright, Col. George, 518, 520, 521

Wuerz, August, Sr., 390

Wyandotte, 376, 392

Wyeth, Capt., 544

Wyeth Expedition, 558

Wyoming Massacre, 61, 110