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Duel, 253

Duluth, 150, 151, 234

Dunkards, 263

Dunstable, 48, 56

Duquesne, Abraham, 14

Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817), 63; fears of pioneer class, 251

East, efforts to restrict advance of frontier, 33, 34; fears of the West, 208; out of touch with West, 18

Economic forces and political institutions, 243

Economic historian, 332

Economic legislation and Ohio Valley, 170

Education, 282; Middle West, 156

Edwards, Jonathan, 63

Egleston, Melville, 55

Eliot, C. W., on corporation, 265; on democracy and slavery, 256

Emerson, R. W., 353; on Lincoln, 256

England, decrease of dependence on, 23; Mississippi Valley and, 180, 186; Old Northwest and, 131, 134

English pioneers, 270

English settlers in Michigan and Wisconsin, 226

English stock and English speech, 23

Equality, 274; New England, 61, 62, 63; Western settlers, 212

Erie Canal, 7, 136, 195, 197

Europe, American democracy and, 282; how America reacted on, 3; Southeastern, 294, 295, 316

Europeans, 267

Evolution, American, as key to history, 11

Expansion, 206, 219, 304, 345; Ohio Valley and, 166; world politics, 246

Experts, 284, 285, 286

"Fall line," 4, 9, 68; efforts to establish military frontier on, 84

Fairfax, Lord, 92, 123

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