Chapter XIII: Middle Western Pioneer Democracy 335 (14)

"Western Waters," 161, 206, 302;
men of freedom and independence, 183

"Western World," 161, 166, 206, 302;
basis of its civilization, 177

Wheat, 329;
areas, 149

Whig party, 27, 173, 304, 351

White, Abraham, 240

White, Hugh, 192

Whitman, Walt, 336

Wilderness, 262, 269, 270, 279

Wilkinson, James, 169, 187

Williams, John (1664-1729), 70

Williams, Roger, 262

Windsor, 76

Winthrop, John, 62

Wisconsin, 137, 138, 218, 294, 341;
development and elements, 233-234;
German element, 227, 228, 236;
New England element, 228;
settlement, 226, 227

Wood, Abraham, 98

Woodstock, 59

World's fairs, 156

World-politics, 246, 315

Wyoming Valley, 79, 124

Yemassee War, 95

"Young America" doctrine, 140

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Transcriber's Notes:

The following words appear in the text with and without hyphens. They have been left as in the original.

battle-field battlefield
coast-wise coastwise
cow-pens cowpens
head-rights headrights
iron-master ironmaster
new-comers newcomers
non-sectional nonsectional
out-vote outvote
rail-splitter railsplitters
sea-board seaboard
slave-holding slaveholding
tide-water tidewater
un-won unwon

The following corrections have been made to the text:

page 25--as the nation marched westward.[period is missing in
original]

page 40, footnote 40:5--"American Colonies in the Seventeenth
Century,"[quotation mark missing in original]

page 48, footnote 48:4--Sheldon, "Deerfield,"[quotation mark
missing in original]

page 49--your honours [original has opening parenthesis]we
haue but litel laft

page 53--the frontier Towns.[original has extraneous quotation
mark]

page 68, footnote 68:1--Powell, "Physiographic
Regions[original has extraneous single quote]"

page 75, footnote 75:1--Egleston[original has Eggleston],
"Land System of the New England Colonies,"

page 86--at least three foot within the ground."[quotation
mark missing in original]

page 96, footnote 96:3--(N. Y., 1899)[closing parenthesis
missing in original], pp. 149, 151;

page 117, footnote 117:3--pp. 440-447[original has 440-437]

page 118--it was being exploited,[original has period]

page 118, footnote 118:2--N. C.[original has N .C.]

page 123--Preemption and preemptions are hyphenated across
line breaks in the original. The diaresis has been reinserted
in the rejoined words.

page 163--American backwoodsmen[original has backswoodsmen]

page 167--to add the settlements[original has setlements]

page 171--social conditions of the people whose[original has
who] needs

page 236--stronghold of resistance[original has resistence]

page 254--formal law and the subtleties[original has
subleties]

page 268--that dwarf [original has extraneous word of] those
of the Old World

page 310--to pause, to make an end,[original has period]

page 348--to his own business.[original has extraneous
quotation mark]

page 353--at least before [original has extraneous word at]
the present day

page 362--Bryan, W. J., 204, 236, 237, 246, 281, 327,
330[original has 329]

page 363, under Democracy--Godkin[original has Gookin] on, 307

page 363--Democratic party, 327, 330[original has 329]

page 363--Discovery, 271[original has 270], 293, 301, 306

page 363--Douglas[original has Douglass], William, 109

page 364--Forest[original has Foreign] Service, 320

page 364, under Germans--Palatine, 5, 82, 100, 109,
124[original also lists page 32 in error]

page 366--Henry, Patrick, 94[original has 95]

page 366, under Indians: hunting Indians with dogs,
45[original has 95]

page 367--Kipling, Rudyard, "Foreloper[original has
Toreloper]," 270

page 368--Marietta, 124, 133[original has 132], 223, 257

page 368, under Michigan--development and resources,
233[original has 232]

page 371--Pynchon[original has Pyrichon], John, 51, 52

page 373--Spangenburg[original has Spangenberg], A. G.

Spelling and punctuation errors in quoted material have been left as in the original.

The index entry for James Glenn was after the entry for E. L. Godkin. The two entries were reversed to maintain alphabetical order. Index entries for Leicester and Leigh, B. W., were combined with the Legislation entry. Entries were moved as appropriate.