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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