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page 118, footnote 118:2--N. C.[original has N .C.]

page 123--Preemption and preemptions are hyphenated across line breaks in the original. The diaresis has been reinserted in the rejoined words.

page 163--American backwoodsmen[original has backswoodsmen]

page 167--to add the settlements[original has setlements]

page 171--social conditions of the people whose[original has who] needs

page 236--stronghold of resistance[original has resistence]

page 254--formal law and the subtleties[original has subleties]

page 268--that dwarf [original has extraneous word of] those of the Old World

page 310--to pause, to make an end,[original has period]

page 348--to his own business.[original has extraneous quotation mark]

page 353--at least before [original has extraneous word at] the present day

page 362--Bryan, W. J., 204, 236, 237, 246, 281, 327, 330[original has 329]

page 363, under Democracy--Godkin[original has Gookin] on, 307

page 363--Democratic party, 327, 330[original has 329]

page 363--Discovery, 271[original has 270], 293, 301, 306

page 363--Douglas[original has Douglass], William, 109

page 364--Forest[original has Foreign] Service, 320

page 364, under Germans--Palatine, 5, 82, 100, 109, 124[original also lists page 32 in error]

page 366--Henry, Patrick, 94[original has 95]

page 366, under Indians: hunting Indians with dogs, 45[original has 95]

page 367--Kipling, Rudyard, "Foreloper[original has Toreloper]," 270

page 368--Marietta, 124, 133[original has 132], 223, 257

page 368, under Michigan--development and resources, 233[original has 232]

page 371--Pynchon[original has Pyrichon], John, 51, 52

page 373--Spangenburg[original has Spangenberg], A. G.

Spelling and punctuation errors in quoted material have been left as in the original.

The index entry for James Glenn was after the entry for E. L. Godkin. The two entries were reversed to maintain alphabetical order. Index entries for Leicester and Leigh, B. W., were combined with the Legislation entry. Entries were moved as appropriate.

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