Part 37

French settlers in Michigan and Wisconsin, 226

Frontier, conservative attitude toward advance, 63; definition, 3, 41; demand for independent statehood, 248; efforts to check and restrict it, 33; evil effects, 32; extinction, 1, 9, 38, 39, 321; farmers, 239, 240; first official, 39, 54; French, 125; importance as a military training school, 15; influence toward democracy, 247, 249; kinds and modes of advance, 12; Massachusetts, 65; military, of Old West, 106-107; religious aspects, 36; Spanish, 125; towns in Massachusetts, 42, 45, 53, 70; various comparisons, 10

Frontiersmen, 206, 209, 212; in Congress, 252-253; Mississippi Valley, 182; Virginia idea, 86

Fulton, Robert, 171

Fur trade, 13; England after Revolution, 131; Hudson River, 80; Southern, Old West, 87

Gallatin, Albert, 191, 252, 317

Galveston, 202

Garfield, J. A., 241

Geographic factors, 329

Geographic provinces, 158

Georgia, 174, 196; restriction of land tenure, 97; settlement, 97

Germanic germs, 3, 4

Germans, 263; in New York in early times, 5; Middle West and, 137-138, 146; Palatine, 5, 82, 100, 109, 124; political exiles, 349; sectaries, 164; Wisconsin, 23, 227, 236; zone of settlement in Great Valley, 102

Glarus, 236

Glenn, James, 23, 108

Godkin, E. L., 307

Goochland County, Va., 93

Government, 321; paternal, 328; popular, 357

Government discipline, 356

Government expeditions, 17

Government intervention, 344

Government ownership, 148

Government powers, 307

Government regulation, 281

Granger movement, 148, 203, 218, 276, 281

Grant, U. S., 142

Granville, Lord, 95, 123

Great Lakes, 128, 149, 150, 173, 297