regulation of, 139-145
Little Crow, 68, 116, 117, 132, 155
Little Falls (Minnesota), 6, 81
Little Thunder, 118
Lockwood, Judge, 170
Log cabins, erection of, 25
Log village for Indians, 149
Long, Stephen H., site for fort approved by, 19;
reference to, 95;
expedition of, to upper Mississippi, 160-163
Longfellow, Henry W., 62
Lookout platform, 74
Loomis, Gustavus, 36, 156, 166;
punishment inflicted by, 90
Loras, Mathias, 127, 231;
activities of, at Mendota, 158
Lords of the North, 54-72
Louisiana, transfer of, 7
Louisiana Purchase, effect of, 4
Louisville (Kentucky), 169
Lover's rock, 172
Lower Red Cedar Lake, trading post on, 6
"Loyal Hanna" (steamboat), 169
Lumber, making of, 27, 28, 82

McCain, H. P., acknowledgments to, ix
M'Gillis, Hugh, 6
McGregor, John R., 196
McKenny, T. L., 17
McKenzie, Kenneth, trading house bought by, 79;
reference to, 138
McLean, Nathaniel, 71, 220
McMahon, Doctor, 121
McNeil, Colonel, 117
Mackinac, capture of, by British, 9, 10;
reference to, 11, 12, 18, 118, 146, 201, 209;
transfer of, to Americans, 18
Madison, James, 12

Magazine, 74;
contents of, 76, 77
Ma-ghe-ga-bo, 182, 183
Magruder, William T., 63, 186
Mahoney, Sergeant, purchases made by, 89
Mail, carrying of, to Fort Snelling, 97-99, 101
Maize, raising of, 95
"Malta" (steamboat), 169
Man-of-the-sky, 133
Mandan (North Dakota), 5
Mandan Indians, Lewis and Clark among, 5;
reference to, 206
Maple sugar, 120
March, preparations for, 93-95
Marengo (Iowa), difficulties with Indians near, 42, 43
Marion (Iowa), 42
Marquette, Jacques, 3, 146
Marryat, Frederick, visit of, to Fort Snelling, 168, 229
Marsh, John, letter from, 33;
service of, as tutor, 100, 101
Marston, Major, 22
Massacre of 1862, 118
Massy, Louis, 192
Mather, William Williams, visit of, to Fort Snelling, 165
Mdewakanton Sioux Indians, treaty with, 247
Meals, character of, 85-87
Medals, giving up of, by Indians, 6;
giving of, by English, 112;
giving of, by United States, 113, 114;
slur against, 145
Mendota, treaty of, 49, 247;
settlement at, 80, 81;
headquarters of fur trade at, 135, 136;
factor at, 139;
reference to, 142, 212, 223, 245;
religious activities at, 157, 158;
traders at, 188
Menominee Indians, unwillingness of, to make treaty, 13;
reference to