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Jefferson, Thomas, 93, 105, 114, 268; conception of democracy, 250, 251; on England and the Mississippi, 186; on the pioneer in Congress, 253; on the importance of the Mississippi Valley, 188

"Jim River" Valley, 145

Johnson, R. M., 192

Johnson, Sir William, 81, 104

Justice, direct forms in the West, 212

Kansas, 142, 144, 146, 151; Populists, 238; settlers, 237

Kansas City, 151

Kentucky, 19, 122, 162, 167, 168, 169, 192, 225, 253; slavery, 174

King Philip's War 40, 46, 69

Kipling, Rudyard, "Foreloper," 270; "Son of the English," 262

Labor, combinations, 245; composition of laboring class, 316

Labor theorists, 303, 326

Lamar, L. Q. C. (1825-1893), 25

Lancaster, Mass., 48, 57, 61

Land, 328-329; abundance, 274; abundance, as basis of democracy, 191, 192; alien tenure, 110; free, exhausted, 244-245; free Western, 211, 259; fundamental fact in Western society, 211; "mongering," 61; see also Public lands

Land companies, 123, 347

Land grants, 9; for schools and colleges, 74; to railroads, 276

Land Ordinance of 1785, 132

Land policies, 10

Land system, "equality" principle in New England, 61, 62, 63; Georgia, 97; later federal, 123; New England, 54; New England conflicts, 75; New York State, 80; North Carolina, 95; Old West, 122; Pennsylvania, 101; Virginia, 91; Virginia grants to societies, 85

La Salle, 180

Laurentide glacier, 129

Law and order, 298, 344

Leadership, 213, 291, 292, 307; educated, 286

Lease, Mary Ellen, 240

Legislation, 277, 307; frontier and, 24;

Leicester, 59

Leigh, B. W., 115

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