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Mississippi Valley.
For 121 years thereafter the flags of foreign na- tions waved above the evergreen slopes that had glad- dened the hearts of those men of deeds. But because a new race had been originated on the American con- tinent-a race of whom it could be said "The thing that is given it to do it can make itself do"-the period of foreign control was limited. With a "blinkard daz- zlement and staggerings to and fro" as "of a man sent on an errand he is too weak for by a path he cannot yet find," this race had reached out and grasped the mighty Valley from brim to brim.
THE END.
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INDEX.
Abenakis Indians, driven from New England, join La Salle, 40; persuaded to make war, 121.
Abercrombie defeated, 151.
Accau, Michael, heads an ex- ploring expedition, 37.
Adams, John, at peace treaty, 332.
Albany, N. Y., Dutch at, 33-34. Alibamons Indians, in Alaba- ma, 62.
Alleghanies crossed by British settlers, 124; Duquesne forti- fies, 133.
Alleghany region, French move into, 128.
Alleghany Co., N. Y,, and river shed visited, 8.
Allouez, Father, estab. Mission at La Pointe, 8.
Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, captures Louisburg, 151; in Pontiac's War, 175.
Animals of Miss. Valley, 18, 22; Beavers in, 24; abundant, 189. Armies, American, efficiency, 252. Aubry, succeeds D'Abbadie, 163;
permits British trade in New Orleans, 167.
Au Glaize river named, 349.
Badine, Iberville's ship, 53. Baker, John, 198.
Baker, Joshua, attack on Indi- ans, 215.
Bank, Louis ("Bar"), meets French at English Turn, 57. Barlow, Joel, speculator, 337.
Barre, La antagonizes La Salle, 45.
Baton Rouge, British take pos- session of, 205; named, 55.
Bean, William, on Boone's Creek, 200.
Battle Island, Ohio, named, 305. Bayou Manchac, na med, 55; British at, 288.
Bears as domestic cattle, 79. Beaubassion, Sieur de, leads raid, 121.
Beaujeu, Capt. Daniel Lienard de, attacks Braddock, 144.
Beavers, 120; eaten in feast, 5. Bernadotte, General Charles, to take Miss. Valley, 388.
Berthier, Alexander, gets Lou- isiana and Florida for Napol- eon, 384.
Big Bottom, Pa., attacked, 339. Big Lick, site of Boonesborough, 227.
Bienville, "Father of New Or- leans," 52; buys a letter of Indian, 55; meets English, 58; meets Tonti, 59; time in the Louisiana colony, 60; as to ri- valries, 61; Vente opposes, 62; opposes a marriage, 62; sends soldiers among Indians for food, 63; plans new fort, 72; founds New Orleans, 74; sends surveyors to lay out new cap- ital, 104; opposed, 106; builds first levee, 106; leaves country, 115; describes soldiers, 116.
Bigot, Francois, character of Intendant, 134; loves Madam Pean, 154.
Biloxi, Miss., settled, 56; Sioux Indians at, 79.
Bilboa, ship, carries commis- sioners, 398.
Bird, Colonel, builds fort, 150. Bird, Capt. Henry, raids, 289.
Bishop of New Orleans com- plains of tolerance to Protes- tants, 382.
Bledsoe, Anthony, surveys Va. line, 202.
Blount, William, Governor of Tennessee, etc., 363.
Blue Earth River, named, 60.
Blue Licks, Ky., Battle at, 310. Boisbriant, Major Pierre Hugue, falls in love, 62; builds Fort Chartres, 107.
Bonaparte, treaty, 385.
Lucien, makes
Boone, Daniel, with Braddock, 147; ancestry and early life, 196; story of, 197; crosses mountain wall, 198; Squire joins Daniel, 199; typical explorer, 200; warns of coming war, 212; in Tran- sylvania, 225; fights Indians, 226; brings wife to Boones- borough. 240; prepares game and horse laws, 244; daughter Jemima carried off, 259; at Blue Licks, 264, 310; sees chief need of the country, 327: cross- es the Mississippi, 381; ap- pointed to office, 382.
Boone, Squire, brother of Dan- iel, in Kentucky, 199.
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Index.
Boonesborough, Kentucky, 227; first woman at, 240; attacked, 264.
Boston Port closed, 248.
Bouquet, Col. Henry, commands Colonials, 177; wins Bushy Run fight, 179; forces peace, 181.
Bowman, John, first Kentucky Colonel, 259.
Braddock, Edward, sails for America, 142; attacked by French, 144; shot, 145; dies, 147. Brady, Samuel, borderer, 328. Bradstreet, Lieut. Col. John, takes Fort Frontenac, 151; General, sent against Indians, 181.
Brant, Joseph, 334; tells of British duplicity, 341.
Brazos river, Nolan on, 381.
Breckenridge, Senator John, 395; introduces bill to authorize Louisiana treaty, 396.
Bryan's Station, attack on, 308. British, civilization of, 250, et seq .; urge attack on Christian Indians, 295; welchers after the Rev., 333; object in Northwest, 334; urge Indians to war, 334; against peace, 341; idea of Wayne's work, 345; attitude toward U. S., 345; betray Indians, 351; impressed by good fighting, 352; plan to raid Mis- sissippi Valley, 367; get a rival from Napoleon, 393.
Brule, Etienne, First Coureur de Bois, 1; at Lake copper mines, 3; fate, 3.
Bryan, Rebecca, Boone's wife, 197.
Buffalo, wild cattle, 18; heard by Joliet, 22; 30,000 skins wast- ed. 63.
Bullies of the Miss. Valley, 377. Bullitt, Capt. Thomas, survey- or in Ohio Valley, 207.
Burgoyne's surrender, to whom credit is due, 268.
Burnet, Gov. Wm., founds Os- wego, 122.
Bushy Run, Penn., battle at, 178.
Butler, General Richard, robbed by desperadoes, 211; killed at St. Clair's defeat, 340.
Butler, trader, canoes attacked, 213.
Cabins, log, how built, 228.
Cadillac, Le Mothe, Gov. of De- troit & Louisiana, 64; com- plains of profligates, 66; tries to promote trade, 67; sends out expeditions, 68; views on trade, Indian policy and col- ony, 69; dismissed, 69.
Cahokia, (Kaoquias) 110; con- quered, 272.
Cairo, trading station near, 63. Caldwell, Capt. William, 305; attacks Bryan's Station, 308; at Fallen Timbers, 350.
Calk, Journal of, 230. Calloway, Betsey & Fanny, captured, 260.
Calumet, peace pipe given to Joliet, 19; brings peace, 22- 23; Indians accept Quakers', 153.
Calvo, Marquis de Casa, repre- sents Spanish at New Orleans transfer, 397.
Campbell, Colonel Archibald, takes Savannah, 313.
Campbell, Col. William, at Kings Mountain, 316; hangs a Tory, 328.
Campbell, Major, commands a British fort on Maumee, 352. Cameron with raiders, 255.
Canadians, in the South, 60; fought Braddock, 144, 148.
Canoes and dugouts described, 5, 22, 30.
Carheil, Father Etienne de, de- scribes missions, 116.
Carmichael, in Spain, 373.
Carleton, Sir Guy, see Lord Dorchester.
Carondelet, Baron de, com- mands at New Orleans, starts Indian raids, 371; opposes El- licott, 375; transferred, 376.
Catholic Church protected, 272; Children must join, 382.
Cat Island, named, 54; mutiny on, 116.
Cataraqui, (Kingston, Canada). 27; settlement grows at, 30. Caughnowagas, 121.
Celoron, (Monsieur de Bienville) takes possession of Ohio Val- ley, buries plates, etc., 128; meets Old Britain, Indian chief, 129.
Champlain, Samuel de, sends Brule to the Indians, 2; work in America, 2; influence of his gun over-rated, 28.
Champlain, Lake, discovered, fight, etc., 2.
Charleston, W. Va., laid out, 207. Chesne, Monsieur de, order for service among Hurons, 51.
Chicago River, La Salle's work on, 43; portage to Fox River, 111.
Chickasaws and English threat- en French, 57; hunted by Choc- taws, 62; see Indian summary, 76 et seq.
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Index.
Chickasaw Bluff, La Salle at, 44; Gayoso fortifies, 373; Elli- cott stopped at, 375; Spanish, 377.
Chillicothe, Ohio, raided by Clark, 290.
China, search for, 4-9.
Chine, La, rapids, described, 8, 9; origin of name, 10, 11; when Celoron left, 128.
Choctaw Indians encouraged to hunt other tribes, 62.
Choteau, August & Pierre, sons of Laclede, 162.
Christina, Indian woman, begs for life, 301.
Cincinnati, Ohio, named, 339. Civil Govt. West of Alleghanies, 202, 244.
Claiborne, W. C. C., American Governor of Miss., 398.
Claims, land entry, made with tomahawk, 204; cost of, 245; at Marietta, 338; French and British opposing, 124.
Clark, George Rogers, his work, 196; at Wheeling, 213; with Cresap, 214; carries petition, 258; kills Indian, 262; sends spies to Illinois, 263; method of defending Kentucky, 265; Illinois campaign, 267, et seq .; skill in handling French and Indians, 270, et. seq .; Vin- cennes taken, 274; when the British came to the Wabash, 275, et seq .; builds gun boat, 277; retakes Vincennes, 281; returns to Falls of Ohio, 284; ill-treatment of, 285; value of work, 332, 353; contemplates raid on Natchez, 364; to aid French schemes, 371.
Clerc, Leo (brother-in-law of Napoleon), in San Domingo, 384.
Clothing, frontier, 238, 241; Amer- ican and French compared, 241-242.
Cocquard, Father Godfrey, de- scribes French-Indian raids, 148.
Comet, La Salle's view of, com- pared with Mather's, 40.
Congress at Albany, 141; at Al- exandria, 142.
Congress, U. S. and Indians and Pirates, 341; accepts lands from States, 363; ratifies pur- chase of Louisiana Ter., 395- 396.
Connelly, Dr. John, makes trou- ble at Pittsburg, 211; tries to imprison friendly Indians, 217; back to Kentucky, 367.
Constitution, United States, adopted, 362.
Contractors, vile thieves, 343. Contrecoeur, Capt. Claude Pe- caudy de, takes a fort, 138; commands at Ft. Duquesne, 143; succeeded by Dumas, 148. Convicts in colonies, 104.
Cooley, William, explores Ken- tucky, 198.
Copper, found by Etienne Brule, 3; search for, 10, 14; Indian use of, 80.
Corn as a diet, 60, 61; food of the Indians, 79; on frontier, 242; price in Hard Winter, 321. Cornstalk attacks Virginians, 218; at the peace treaty, 221; favors Americans, 266; mur- dered, 266.
Cornwallis, Lord, whips Gates, 314; surrenders, 329.
Cotton, profitable, 380; cotton- gin, 380.
Coureurs de bois, first, 1; de- scribed, 3, 33, 34, 68; some en- terprising, 111.
Cowan, John, first house at Louisville, 207.
Crawford, Col. William, re- ceives ammunition, 288; in raid on Sandusky towns, 304; tor- tured by Indians, 306.
Creoles, described, 169; migra- tion, 169; and French Repub- lic, 170; untimely dancing of, 397.
Cresap, Michael, needless slaughters of Indians, 213; in Revolution, 248.
Cresap, Col. Thomas, on Poto- mac, 123; employed by Ohio company, 190.
Crevecoeur, Fort, 236.
Crozat, Anthony, controls Lou- isiana, 64; loses money, 68; surrenders Louisiana to King, 70.
Croghan, George, sent to Indi- ans, 191; warns against attack on Indians, 212; foils Connel- ly, 217.
Cumberland, Duke of, 124, 191. Cumberland River & Gap named, 124.
Cumberland, Md., trail from, 124. Cutbirth, Benjamin, 198.
Cutler, Rev. Manasseh, secures land grant from Congress, 336, 337.
D'Abbadie, M., sent to New Orleans, 163; permits British trade in New Orleans, 167.
Dablon, Father Claude, tells of Joliet, 15.
Daring, frigate, whipped by d'Iberville, 52.
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Index.
Dartmouth, ship, (tea party), 248.
Dauphine Island, named, 54; settled, 60.
Deckhard rifle, 237; used at King's Mountain, 315; Deck- hard rifle government, 203.
Delassus, Don Charles D., ap- points Boone to office, 382.
De Ligneris, leaves Duquesne, 154.
Denis, Juchereau de St., expe- ditions to Mexico, 67, 68.
De Noyant, arrested, 165.
Denton, Mrs., one of the first white women in Kentucky, 240.
De Soto, see chapter ix.
Desperadoes, 211.
D.s Plaines River, La Salle on, 11.
Detroit, Mich., Clark plans to take, 284.
Dieskau, Baron, in command of Canada, 142.
Dinwiddie, Gov. Robert, pro- tests to French, 135; King or- ders him to make war on the French, 137; sends troops to Redstone creek, 138.
Diplomacy, early Indian, 4.
Doak, Rev. Samuel, and his books, 319; labors successful, 362.
Doddridge's Notes, 232; opinion of Williamson, 299.
Donelson, Col. John, goes to
site of Nashville, 290.
Dorchester, Lord, (formerly Sir Guy Carleton) letter to, 334; misrepresentations by, 336; speaks to the Indians, 346; re- sponsible for Indian suffer- ings, 349.
Douay, Father Anastose, pres- ent at death of La Salle, 48, 49.
Douville's troops gave no quar- ter, 149.
Dragging Canoe, attacks whites, 256; refuses peace, 258.
Dubreuil, A. M., erects sugar mill, 168.
Duclos, commissary, describes women of Louisiana, 66; dis- missed, 69.
Duer, Col. William, speculator, 337.
Dug-out, a Sioux boat, 5.
Du Gay, assistant of Accau, 37. Dumas, Captain, succeeds Con- trecoeur, 148; gives written orders to prevent torture, 149; like Col. Hamilton, 255.
Dunlap Station, Ky., attacked, 339.
Dunmore, Lord, in Indian War, 218; makes peace, 221; pro- claims in vain, 243.
Dunmore's War, 209, et seq .; action of soldiers at end of, 247.
Duquesne, Marquis de Menne- ville, approves attack on Old Britain, 132; to keep British east of Alleghanies, 133.
Duquesne, Fort, prisoners burn- ed at, 146; evacuated, 171. Dutch, give guns and ideas to Indians, 100.
Eaton's Station, garrison at- tacks Indians, 256.
Ecuyer, Captain, deceives In- dians, 176.
Ellicott, Andrew, American Commissioner to survey line between United States and Spanish Florida, 375.
Ellinipsico, killed, 266.
Elliott, Matthew, Renegade, 305. English top the Alleghanies. 57, 75; claim the West, 76; cross the Alleghanies, 124; com- pared with French, 124; rights in the Mississippi Valley, 125- 126; gain Canada, 155; horri- fied by sight of Yorkshire habit of gouging out eyes, 327. English Turn in Mississippi River, named, 58.
Erie, (Presqu' Isle), French reach, 134.
Espiritu Santu, a name of Mis- sissippi River, 161.
Fallen Timbers, battle of, 350 et seq.
Fawcett, Thomas, kills Brad- dock, 145.
Feast of 120 beavers, 5; Immac- ulate Conception, 16; Fron- tier, 242.
Federalists and War, 390.
Femme Osage district, Missou- ri, 382.
Ferguson, Major Patrick, finds Patriots, 314; fights at King's Mountain, 315, 317.
Fillibustering, threatened, 364, 371; done, 381.
Filson, John, map, 228; with Symmes and Boone, 338.
Finley, John, tells Boone sto- ries, 197; with Boone, 198.
Florida, De Soto lands in, 158; British in West, 167, 288; Span- ish gain, 289; French gain, 384. Floyd, John, Kentucky Colonel, 325.
Food, frontier, 242; cost of, 324. Forbes, Gen. John, starts for Ft. Duquesne, 152; enters, 154.
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Index.
Forts .. Adams, 398; Bute, built, 206; British on Maumee, (Mi- ami), 347; Chartres, 107; French at Chartres, 154; Char- tres surrendered, 207; chain of built, 151; Defiance, 349; Du- quesne, built, 134, 138; Fred- erick, at Crown Point, 122; Frontenac, built, 30; the same pledged for debt, 31; seized, 33; captured by British, 151; Indian at Marietta, 85; Grand- ville, 150; Great Meadows, 139; La Boulaye, 159; La Boeuf, 13 .; Massac, 269, 272; Miami, built by La Salle, 36; Mata- gorda Bay, 46; same raided, 49; Natchitoches, 68-69; Ne- cessity, 140;
New Orleans, first built, 72, 74; Oswego, 122; Pitt, besieged, 175; Redstone, 138; St. Louis, 45; Starved Rock, 45; Venango, 135; Wash- ington, 340; Wayne, 352. See chapter on La Salle.
Fox River, Nicolet up, 5; De- scription of country at head, 17; Portage at, 111.
Frankfort, Ky., founded, 208.
Franklin, state set up, 362.
Franklin, Ben., leaves England, 250; makes peace treaty, 331, et seq .; his regard for the Mis- sissippi, 358.
French-Indian war, first gun, 132.
French spoliations, 383-384.
French, (see chapters vi, vii, viii,) treaties with Indians, 2, 4, 5; compared with other Na- tions, 6, 7, 11; peace with Ir- oquois, 28; jealousy of English, 53; dislike of Americans, 270. French Government, attitude toward U. S., 332, 351; plans to take New Orleans from Spanish, 371; buys Louisiana, 383, 384; warned by Jefferson, 386; sell Louisiana to U. S., 394.
Friendship, frontier test of, 290. Frontenac, Monsieur de, Gov. Canada, sends Joliet to Mis- sissippi, 15; described, 26; rec- ognizes La Salle's worth, 26; leaves Montreal to dazzle Iro- quois, 27; sends La Salle to France, 28; hates Jesuits, 29; coat of arms, 32; recalled, 45. Frontier life, 107, 108.
Fry, Joshua, made Colonel, 137; sent to Logstown, 191; death, 140.
Furniture frontier. 232.
Galena, Ill., founded, 108.
Galvez. Don Bernado de. Gov. of Louisiana, 287; confiscates
British ships, 287; loans U. S. $6,000,288; captures Natchez, 289, 359, 369; Miro succeeds, 363. Game laws, 244.
Gardoqui, Don Diego, Spanish treaty made by, 364; his bri- bery, 365; plans to draw off American settlers, 367; re- turns to Spain, 369.
Gates, Gen. Horatio, defeated, 314; Wilkinson, his aide, 360. Gayarre, Charles, historian, on burning of Indians, 114.
Gayoso, (Manuel Gayoso de
Lemos), and Wilkinson, 365;
Commandant at Chicksaw Bluffs, 373; wearisome dilly- ing-dallying, 375; dies after spree, 389.
Genet, "Citizen," Edmund Charles, comes to U. S., 371.
Georgia, movement to control Miss. Valley begun, 370; sells land (Yazoo fraud), 373.
Georgian Bay visited by Nico- let, 4; La Salle en route to, 43.
Germain, Lord, approved In- dian raids, 289.
German Coast of Miss. River, 104.
Germans in Miss. Valley, 104.
Gibault, Father Pierre, begs Clark for life, 271; helps Amer- icans secure Vincennes, 272. Gibson, Col., John, interpreter, 222; tries to protect Gnaden- hutten Indians, 277, 279.
Girty, Simon, and Moravians, 298; at Crawford's raid, 305; at- tacks Dunlap station, 339.
Gist, Christopher, with Wash- ington, 136, 139; employed by Ohio Company, 190; treats with Indians, 191.
Gnadenhutten, Ohio, 89; Indi- ans at, 188; building of, 216; the story of, 293; et seq .; ef- fect on Indians, 308-311; effect of, 329.
Gomer, Nancy, heroine, 291.
Gordon, Lieut., captured and killed, 175.
Government, frontier, 244; at Watauga, ough, 291. 201; at Nashbor- Grant, Major James, defeated, 153.
Grave Creek, W. Va., attack on Indians at, 214.
Gravier. Father, at Kaskaskia, 75: manner of curing disease, 115.
Grav. soldier, escapes, 175.
Greathouse, Daniel C., leads attack, on Indians at Yellow creek, 215.
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Index.
Green Bay, Mich., Nicolet at, 5; mentioned, 111.
Greenville, Ohio, named, 345.
Gridiron Flag covers the Na- tion, 378.
Griffin, first ship on Lake Erie, 32; sails on Lakes, 35; lost, 37-38.
Grosseilliers, Menard Chouart des, goes with Radisson, into region S. & W. of Lake Su- perior, 5; described, 5, 6, 7; into the Miss. Valley, 7; final word of, 400.
Guion, Captain Isaac, sent to Miss. Valley, 377.
Gulf of Mexico, La Salle reach- es, 44.
Half King, speaks to Gnaden- hutten Indians, 297.
Hamilton, Col. Henry, instruc- tions to, 251; sends raiders, 253; captured, 254; incites In- dians, 259; tries to ransom Boone, 264; goes hunting Clark, 275; takes Vincennes, 275; Clark sends him to Vir- ginia, 281.
Hammond, British Ambassador, describes Wayne, 342; justifies British aggression, 348.
Hampshire, ship sunk by Iber- ville, 52, 53.
"Hard Winter," described, 320, mentioned, 290.
Harmer, Gen. Josiah, raids In- dians, 335.
Harpe, Bernard de la, builds Fort St. Louis de Carlorette, 69.
Harrison, Benjamin, at battle of Point Pleasant, 221.
Harrod, James, founds Harrods- burg, 208.
Harrodsburg, Ky. becomes county seat, 259; under fire all summer, 261; force at, 263, 264; land office closed by Clark, 290; first court at, 325.
Heckwelder, John, Moravian Missionary, 216.
Helm, Capt. Leonard, at Vin- cennes, 275; bluffs Col. Hamil- ton, 276; joke on, by George Rogers Clark, 281.
Henderson, Col. Richard, Boone works for, 200; founds Tran- sylvania Co., 225; cause of failure, 245.
Henderson, Ky., named for Col. Henderson, 245.
Hennepin, La Salle's Chaplain, and historian of expedition to Miss. River, 33; tries to bribe St. Anthony, 33.
Henry, Patrick, call to arms, 248; approves Clark's expedi-
tion to Illinois, 268.
Hickman meets Indians, 219. Hill, William, with Boone, 198. Hillsborough, Lord, explains King's proclamation regarding Indian land, 186.
Hogan, Mrs., comes to Boones- borough, 240.
Homeseekers, fearless of dan- ger, 264.
House boat, first known on Miss., 167. House boatmen, first in Miss. Valley 205.
Hudson's Bay, (ship), captured by Iberville, 53.
Huron Indians, guides of Nico- let, 4; around Georgian Bay, 5; on Miss. River, 7.
Iberville, Le Moyne de, offers to plant colony in Louisiana, 52; captures British ships in Hudson's Bay, 52; sails from Brest, 53; into Miss. River, 54; names lakes, 55; meets Ton- ti, 59; moves colony to Mo- bile Bay, 60; builds Miss. fort, 72.
Ignace, St., (Village in Michi- gan), mission, Joliet at, 16. Illinois Indians, La Salle's peace with, 36.
Illinois, (state) first land war- rant in, 108; grain from, 110; early settlements, 110.
Illinois river, route of Joliet's return, 23, 24.
Independence, first idea of in U. S., 165; and Watauga Govt., 203.
Indians, (see chapter v.), trea- ty with Nicolet, 4; hostile to Joliet, 22; Fox implacably against the French, 111; in- ternal dissensions, 131; can- nibals, 148, 149; relative losses in wars with whites, 180; how wronged by whites, 187, 188; British and, 250; character shown in dealing with George Rogers Clark, 272, 273; most significant statement made in connection with, 295; faith of, 298; smallpox spread among, 291.
Indigo in Louisiana, 167, 168.
Innes, Judge Henry, a traitor, 366.
Iroquois, raids, 6; check com- merce of French, 6; Fronten- ac and, 27; enmity toward French, 28; sent by Jesuits to destroy fort, 39; see Indian summary, 79, et seq .; losing grip, 131.
Iroquet, Indian Chief, treats with Champlain, 2.
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Index.
Jackson, Andrew, backwoods
hero, dances, 236; his wife
Rachael, 290; member of Ten-
nessee Convention, 363.
Jaudenes, Spanish Minister, 373. Jay, John, peace treaty, 332; sent to make treaty, 353; to Spain, 358; in Spain, 372.
Jefferson, Thomas, approves Clark's plans, 269; favors war then bribery, 339; on policy of Bribery, 341; instructions to Spanish, Miss. affairs, 373; tells of Randolph's slaves, 380; porcupine policy, 385; our greatest politician, 385; warns France, 386; insincere, 387; in regard to Spanish aggression, 289, 290; his uppermost thought, 390.
Jesuits, quarrel with Fronten- ac, 29, 30; send Iroquois to de- stroy La Salle's fort, 39; in New Orleans, 106.
Johnson, Capt. George, to take possession of territory east of the Mississippi, 205.
Johnson, Sir William, treaty with Indians, 182.
Johnson, Sir John, letter to Jo- seph Brant, 334.
Joliet, Louis, sent to explore Miss. River, 14; Father Mar- quette was chaplain of the expedition, 15, 16; among Il- linois Indians, 18, 19; turns toward home, 23; route home, 24; loses papers, 24.
Joncaire, at post on Niagara River, 122; receives Washing- ton, 136.
Jones, John Paul, writes Rank, 322; as a fighter, 324.
Joutel tells of La Salle, 48.
Juchereau, a trader, at Cairo, Ill., 63.
Jumonville, Ensign Coulon de, fought by Washington, 139.
Justice, frontier, 202; to inferi- or race, 311; Deckhard-rifle kind, 356.
Kankakee River, La Salle at, 11.
Kaskaskia, Ill., established, 69; becomes parish, 108; college at, 108; Clark reaches, 270, 271.
Kentucky, first cargo from down Miss., 198; "dark and bloody ground," 204; settlers described, 207; early homes in described, 230; organizing set- tlers, 258; raided, 264; suffers at Blue Licks, 311; first Court House and Jail, 325; loyalty, 371; Spanish in, 373; popula- tion, (1790-1800), 380; Kentucky River settled, 208; first women
in, 240; first legislature in, 244; sporting blood, 244; first race course, 244; early life in, 245; cause of rapid growth, 250: divided into three coun- ties, 325; progress in, 325; raids after the war, 325; re- inforces Wayne, 349; restless- ness in, 356; to make a Govt., 359; Kentucky joins the Union, 361; history of, doleful read- ing, 367.
King's Mountain fight, 311; et seq.
Kingston, Canada, then Catara- qui, 27; a trading station, 27, 29; traffic of lakes begins at, 30; vessels at, 30; value to La Salle, 30; base of war, 30.
Knight, Dr. John, on Craw- ford's raid, 304; captured, 306; escapes, 307.
L'Anse de la Graisse, Missouri, 111.
La Beuf, Pa., attack on, 175. Laclede, Pierre Liqueste, founds St. Louis, 162.
Lafayette, Ind., site of, 111.
La Freniere, of New Orleans, arrested, 165; executed, 166.
Langlade, Charles, leads attack on Old Britains Indians, 132. La Mott, La Salle's assistant, fort builder, 31.
La Salle, Rene Robert Cavalier, Sieur de, origin, 8; establish- es frontier trading station, 8; hears about the Great River, 9; fails to find China, 10; into Great Valley, via lake Michi- gan, 11; Frontenac befriends, 26, 27; other traders hate, 30; builds fort at Niagara, 31; voyage on upper lakes, 32; et seq .; origin of troubles with coureurs de bois, 35; builds fort Crevecoeur, 36; sends Hennepin to Miss. River, 37; loss of ship Griffin, 38; enmity of Jesuits, 39; not afraid of a comet, 40; tells of profits in Indian trade, 41; down the Miss. River, 43; claims the Great Valley for France, 44; expedition to Gulf of Mexico, 45, et seq .; in Texas, 46, et seq .; murdered, 49.
Laussatt, Pierre Clement, civil governor at New Orleans, 397. Law, John, takes hold of Louis- iana, 70; described, 70; floats the Mississippi Co. 71; his Company begins work in Val- ley, 103.
Laws, first in Kentucky, 244.
Lead ore, a profit on, 63; found, 68.
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Index.
Lemos, see Gayoso.
Levee, first built to hold the Miss. River to course, 106.
Lewis, Gen. Andrew, his for- ces at battle of Point Pleas- ant, 218.
Lexington, Ky., named in stir- ring fashion, 246.
Limestone, Ky., (Maysville), when a tough town, 326.
Linn, Lieutenant, married, 263; voyage up the Miss., 288.
Little Turtle, whips St. Clair, 340. Livingston, Robert R., Jeffer- son writes to, 386; tries to pur- chase Louisiana, 388; said "only force can give us New Orleans," 393; buys Louisiana, 394. Lochry, Col. Archibald, com- mand destroyed, 322.
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