Part 43

"Mark colonies," 70

Marquette, Jacques, 180

Martineau, Harriet, 214, 303, 339

Massachusetts, attempt to locate frontier line, 39; frontier, 65; frontier towns, 42, 45, 53, 70; locating towns before settlement, 76

Mather, Cotton, attitude as to advancing frontier, 63

Mesabi mines, 152, 234

Mendon, 57

Methodists, 238

Mexico, 295

Michigan, 135-136, 137; development and resources, 233; settlement, 226, 228

Middle region, 27; in formation of the Old West, 79; typical American, 28

Middle West, agriculture, 150; Canada and, 128; Civil War and, 142; early society, 153-154; education, 282; elements of settlement--Northern and Southern, 346, 351; Europe and, 282; flow of population into, 132-133; forests, 130; Germans and, 137-138; Germans and Scandinavians, 146; idealism, 153; immigrants of varied nationalities, 349; importance, 126, 128; increase of settlement in the fifties, 142-143; industrial organism, 149; meaning of term, 126; nationalism, 142; natural resources, 129; New England element, 137; peculiarity and influence, 347; pioneer democracy, 335; settlement, 135, 342; slavery question and, 139; southern zone, 138

Migration, 21, 237, 337; communal vs. individual, 125; crops, 149; interstate, 224; labor, 62; New England, and land policy, 77

Militant expansive movement, 105

Military frontier, 41, 47; early form, 47; Old West, significance, 106-107; Virginia in later 17th century, 83, 84

Milwaukee, 137, 227, 236, 350

Miner's frontier, 12

Mining camps, 9

Mining laws, 10

Minneapolis, 137, 151, 234

Minnesota, 143, 144, 237; economic development, 234; Historical Society, 335, 338-339

Missions to the Indians, 79

Mississippi Company, 123, 182

Mississippi River, 7, 9, 142, 185, 194, 345

Mississippi Valley, 10, 139, 166-167, 324; beginning of stratification, 197; Civil War and, 201; democracy and, 190; early population, 183; economic progress after 1812, 194; England's efforts to control, 180-181; extent, 179; French explorers in, 180; frontiersmen's allegiance, 186-187; idealism, social order, 203-204; industrial growth after the Civil War, 201-202; political power and growth from 1810 to 1840, 193; primitive history, 179; question of severance from the Union, 187; significance in American history, 177, 185; slavery struggle and, 201; social forces, early, 183

Missouri, 192

Missouri Compromise, 140, 174, 226

Missouri Valley, 135