Part 48

Prussianism, 337, 356

Public lands, 25, 132, 303; policy of America, 26, 170; Western lands, first debates on, 191

Public schools, 266, 282

Puget Sound, 298

Puritan ideals, 73, 75, 78; German conflict with, 138

Puritanism, 27

Puritans and Indians, 44

Purrysburg, 97

Pynchon, John, 51, 52

Quakers, 105, 112, 164; in settlement of Indiana, 224

Quebec, Province of, 131

Quincy, Josiah, 208

Radisson, Sieur de, 180

Railroads, administration by regions, 322; Chicago and, 150; continental, 247; in early fifties, 137; land grants to, 276; Mississippi Valley, 304; northwestern, 145; origin, 14; speculative movement, 276; statistics, 314; western, 218

Rancher's frontier, 12, 16

Ranches, 9, 16; Virginia, 88

Rappahannock River, 84, 90; settlement, 93

Reclamation, 298

Reclamation Service, 320

Red Cloud (Indian), 144

Red River valley, 145

Redemptioners, 22, 90, 97, 100

Reformers, 281, 324; social, 262-263

Regulation, War of the, 248

Regulators, 116, 119, 120, 212

Religion of the Middle West, 345

Religious freedom of the Old West, 121

Religious spirit, Ohio Valley, 164, 165; Upland South, 164, 165