105, 187

Rockefeller, J. D., 260, 264-265

Rocky Mountains, 8, 9, 10, 298

Roosevelt, Theodore, 202, 204, 281, 319, 327;
on the Mississippi Valley, 178;
"Winning of the West," 67

Root, Elihu, 159

Roxbury, 59

Royce, Josiah, 157, 358

Rush, Richard, 317

St. Louis, 151, 161, 229

St. Paul, 137, 234

Salisbury, Mass., 56

Salt, 17;
annual pilgrimage to coast for, 17

Salt springs, 17, 18

Salzburgers, 97

Sandys, Sir Edwin, 301

Sault Ste. Marie Canal, 149

Scalps, Massachusetts bounty for, 45

Scandinavians, 263, 350;
Middle West, 146;
Western life, 232-233, 234

Schools, early difficulties, 107;
_see also_ Public schools

Schurz, Carl, 337

Science, 284, 330-331

Scientific farming, 294

Scotch Highlanders, 104;
Georgia, 98

Scotch-Irish, 5, 22, 71;
migration in Great Valley and Piedmont, 103;
Pennsylvania, 104;
South Carolina, 97;
Virginia, 86, 91-92

Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, 105, 109, 164

Scovillites, 116

Seaboard cities, 194, 195, 196

Seattle, 298

"Section" of land, 123, 132

Sectionalism, 27, 28, 52, 157, 215, 220, 321

Sections, relation, 159

Self-government, 169, 190, 207, 248, 275

Self-made man, 219, 318

Servants, 60, 353

Service to the Union, 358

Settlement, community type, 73, 74

Settler, 20

Sevier, John, 105, 187

Seward, W. H., 141;
on the Northwest, 230;
on the slavery issue in the Mississippi Valley, 199, 200

Shays' Rebellion, 112, 119, 122, 249

Sheffield, 71

Sheldon, George, 58

Shenandoah Valley, 68, 90, 91, 92, 99, 105

Sherman, W. T., 142

Sibley, H. H. (1811-1891), 272, 273, 328

Silver movement, 238, 239, 329

Simsbury, 63

Singletary, Amos, 240

Sioux Indians, 130

Six Nations, 15, 83

Slavery question, 24, 29, 98, 111, 139, 304, 330;
compromise movement, 174;
democracy and, 256;
expansion, 174;
Middle West and, 139;
Mississippi Valley and, 198, 201;
Northwest and, 230;
slaves as property, 115;
Virginia and North Carolina, 122

Smith, Major Lawrence, 84

Social control, 277

Social forces, in American history, 311;
mode of investigating, 330;
on the Atlantic coast, 295;
political institutions and, 243

Social mobility, 355

Social order, Mississippi Valley, 203-204;
new, 263

Social reformers, 262-263

Socialism, 246, 277, 307, 321

Society, backwoods, 212;
rebirth of in the West, 205

Soils, 278, 279;
search for, 18