Part 36

Far East, 315

Far West, 315, 341

Farm lands, 297

Farm machinery, 276

Farmers, 238, 239

Farmer's frontier, 12, 16, 18

Federal colonial system, 168, 169

Federal Reserve districts, 322

Fertility, 129

Field, Marshall, 265

Finance, 318, 325; pioneer ideas, 148

Fire-arms and Indians, 13

Firmin, Giles, 56

Food supply, 279, 294, 314

Foreign parentage, Indiana and Illinois, 232; Michigan, 233; Western States, 237; Wisconsin, 233-234

Foreign policy, 168, 219

Forest Service, 320

Forest philosophy, 207

"Foresters," 63

Forests, 270, 293; Middle West, 130

Fortified houses, 71

Fourierists, 263

France, efforts to revive empire in America, 167; Middle West and, 131; Mississippi Valley and, 180, 186; western exploration, 163;

Franchise, 249-250, 252

Franklin, Benjamin, Mississippi Valley and, 182; on the Germans, 109

Free Soil party, 141, 173, 217

French explorers, 163

French frontier, 125