Chapter XIII: The Captains of "the American System" 339

INDEX 363

LIST OF PORTRAITS

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ZEISBERGER Preaching to the Indians at Coshocton,
Ohio, in 1773 _Frontispiece_

DANIEL BOONE 30

GEORGE WASHINGTON 68

RUFUS PUTNAM, Leader of the Founders of Marietta, Ohio 106

REV. MANASSEH CUTLER, Ohio Pioneer 113

JOHN HECKEWELDER, Missionary to the Indians 142

REV. DAVID JONES, Companion of George Rogers Clark 165

HENRY CLAY, Statesman and Abolitionist 184

ALBERT GALLATIN, Promoter of the Cumberland Road 190

GENERAL ARTHUR ST. CLAIR, Appointed Governor of
Ohio by Congress 205

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, Promoter of the Erie Canal 212

DE WITT CLINTON, Friend of the Erie Canal Project 230

MERIWETHER LEWIS, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 262

WILLIAM CLARK, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 274

JOHN JACOB ASTOR, Founder of Astoria 288

PRESIDENT JAMES K. POLK 344