-State Constitution and amendments,
-Its prominent part in the Civil War,
376.
King's Mountain, in North Carolina.
Defeat of the British in 1780, 229.
Kings, Their office among the primitive
-Norman Kings of England trespass on
English usages and liberties, 727.
-The later Kings of England lose ar-
bitrary power, 729, 732.
Knoxville, Tenn., When founded, 235.
-It was the first capital of Tennessee,
Labrador, The northeastern part of
North America, 38, 642, 696
Lakes, The "Plains" once formed a Lake
-The Lakes of the Champlain Era after
the Ice Age, 52.
-The deep rich Bluff soil gathered by
lakes, 53.
-How the deep soil of the Prairies was
produced, 84, 85.
-They are numerous where the oldest
rocks are near the surface, 700.
-The Basins and Parks of the Rocky
Mountains were once beds of lakes,
Great Lakes between the U. S. and
Canada-How they are thought to
have been formed, 51.
-Their basin naturally associated with
the Mississippi Valley, 82, 97, 484, 702.
-Metals found about Lake Superior, 90.
-The most Ancient Mountains, (the
Laurentides) highest near Lakes
Huron and Superior, 703.
-The value of the connected chain to
interior Commerce, 97, 597, 600.
-They were early visited by the
French, 176, 180, 194, 682.
-The long line of Canadian navigation
on them, 686.
-Their natural significance realized in
part, 457.
-Beginning and growth of commerce
on them, 180. 459.
-The St. Lawrence River and Lakes in
the future of Canada, 717.
-Close connection of Canada with the
United States by their means, 695.
Lake St. John, in the Province of
Quebec, 703.
-Champlain, during the Champlain Era,
702.
Lancaster, Pa. The early Indian treaty
made there, 188.
LaSalle, Robert Cavalier de, The great
Explorer, is inspired by the report
of Marquette and Joliet, 179.
-He descends the Mississippi to its
Mouth, 180.
--His misfortunes and death, 180.
-His character contrasted with that of
De Soto, 265.
Laughery, Col., defeated by the In-
dians in Kentucky, 230.
Law in nature has been the same in the
past as now, 31.
-A law not fully understood deter-
mined the outlines and general feat-
ures of the Continents, 36.
-The laws of Evolution do not explain
all known facts, 59, 60, 61.
-The law of animal development, 70,
71, 73.
-The law of introduction of life on the
earth, 59, 75, 76, 77.
-The laws of business are self-regu-
lating, 446, 495, 506, 714.
-All human events are the expression
of a Law of Progress, 442, 446.
-American institutions are a return to
First Principles or Natural Law, 334,
429, 487, 492, 506.
-The law of interest centralizes or con-
solidates the sections and States
without injury and without appeal,
446, 499, 500.
-The law of Equilibrium in business,
506, 714.
Lee, Gen., the most distinguished Con-
federate officer in the Civil War, 375,
384.
Lenni-Lenapes, Believed the original
stock of the Algonquin tribes of In-
dians, 161.
Lexington, Ky., when it was settled,
228.
Libraries in the U. S. and in the Mis-
sissippi Valley, 472, 473.
Licking River, in Ky. The British
and Indians reach the settlements by
it, 228.
Licks, The Salt Springs of Ky. were
Life, or the vital building process. Its
origin and forms, 42, 55.
-How long ago it was introduced on
the earth, 544, 545.
-Man is at the head of the System of
Life, 60, 79.
-Origin, progress and forms of Vegeta-
ble Life from the earliest Geological
Times to the present, 63.
-The progress, step by step, of animal
life from the very lowest forms,
through all the ages to man, 70.
-The law governing the introduction
of living things, 59, 64, 76.
Loess, The European name of a deep
fertile deposit produced by the grind-
ing flow of ice, as along the Missouri
River, 53.
Logan, an Indian Chief of the Mingoes
in Ohio, 204, 239.
Logan, Col. An early Kentucky pioneer.
His defense of his Block-house, 225.
"Long Knives," A name given by
the Indians to pioneer Kentuckians,
326.
Loudon, Fort, Among the Cherokees
built in 1756, destroyed in 1758, 195,
208.
Louisiana, Named by LaSalle in 1682,
180.
-Upper Louisiana, 182, 229.
-Settled by D'Iberville in 1669, 181.
-French settlers in Louisiana, 342, 346.
-Acquired by the Government of the
U. S., 241, 244, 295, 299, 301, 497.
-Its organization as a Territory and
State, 295.
-Its Constitution and Amendments,
296.
-Increase of population, 242, 244, 245,
255, 256, 262.
Lungs, Why the air was unfit for air-
breathing animals before the Great
Coal Age, 76.
Lower Canada, the French Province,
now Quebec. see Canada, 680, 684, 689.
Language as a guide to the early ex-
periences of nations and races, 164.
Land, The value of all the lands in
Great Britain and Ireland, 749.
-Personal Interest in America tends
to discourage land monopoly, 453, 613.
-Land laws in France, 452.
Los Angeles, A plain and city of
Southern California, 604, 611.
Louisville, Ky. Its settlement, 224,
228, 377, 380, 448, 662.
Lower Mississippi—See Mississippi
Valley.
Main Ridge, Main Divide of Rocky
Mts., 592, 597. (See Great Divide.)
--In the Dominion of Canada, 705.
Maize, or Indian Corn among the Mound
Builders, 125, 140, 144,
-Cultivated by the Indians, 149, 152,
-Its production in 1875 in the U. S. and
and the Mississippi Valley, 445, 449.
McClellan, Gen., an officer of the Fed-
eral army in the Civil War, 379.
McGillivray, Gen., Chief of the
Creeks, 235.
McIntosh, a Fort at the mouth of the
Miami, 232.
Mackenzie River, Canada, 705.
Mackinaw, Mich., settled by the
French, 180.
-Captured by British and Indians in
1812, 212, 677.
Man is the ideal Animal, 58, 70, 71.
-His higher faculties intimate that he
is the end and purpose of the system
of nature, 60.
-The mysterious and suggestive rela-
tions of man to the lower animal
world, 60, 71.
-The first traces of man in America
and Europe, 112, 724.
--The suggestion that his first appear-
ance was in Canada, 697, 698.
-He was first a savage and progressed
slowly toward civilization, 113, 724.
Manitoba made a Province of the
Dominion of Canada, 690.
-Its situation and natural resources,
701, 715, 718, 722.
Manufactures in the Mississippi Val-
ley promoted by natural resources
and waterways, 98.
-Compared with agriculture, 99, 456,
483.
-Traces of these industries by Mound
Builders, 142, 144.
-Early manufactures on the Atlantic
Slope, 648.
-The progress of manufactures near
the Ohio up to 1860, 362, 365.
-Facts and statistics of manufac-
tures in U. S. and Mississippi Valley
to 1870, 428.
--Growth and transfer of manufactures,
483.
-These industries and their progress
in England, 736, 738.
Maricopas, Agricultural Indians of
Arizona, 559.
Marietta, Ohio, The first New England
settlement in the Northwest Terri-
tory, 234, 235.
Martin's Block-house, near Licking
River, Ky., 228.
Maryland, The character of the sur-
face and soil, 659, 660.
Massachusetts organizes the first
settlement of Ohio, 233.
-Its people represent an important
element in American character, 334,
502, 642.
-Its expenditures for schools in 1860
and 1870, 475.
-Its manufactures compared with
western States, 483, 658.
Mason and Dixon's Line, Boundary
between free and slave States, 291,
308, 496.
Maubila, An Indian town in Alabama
where De Soto was attacked, 172, 214.
Maumee River, Gen. Wayne defeats
the Indians there in 1794, 207, 236.
Maysville, Ky. A crop of corn raised
in 1775, 224.
---Indian depredations, 235.
Memphis, Tennessee, De Soto crossed
the Mississippi near it, 173.
-That city as a railroad point during
the Civil War, 377.
Mesozoic means middle forms of life,
i. e., between the ancient and the
recent-The rocks containing the re-
mains of such animals and plants are
called MESOZOIC ROCKS, and the time
when they were made, Mesozoic
Time or Mesozoic Period, 43, 45.
--What rocks of the Mississippi Valley
were made in Mesozoic Time, 45.
-Why the animals and plants of this
period were different from those that
preceded, 66.
-Plants and animals most abundant
in the "Middle Period," 68, 75, 77.
-What part of the Mississippi Valley
was raised and ceased to make new
rock near the beginning of the Meso-
zoic, 45, 100.
Mexico, The effect of its elevations on
the Climate of Mississippi Valley, 87,
103.
-The resemblance of its Toltec monu-
ments to those of Mound Builders,
127, 138, 145.
-The traditions of Mexican Toltecs
and Aztecs, 149, 153, 662.
-The Natchez Indians probably a Mex-
ican race, 131, 163.
-The Spanish conquest of Mexico, 167,
169, 558, 560.
-The relations of the United States to
Mexico, 530.
-The Mexican Republic and its people,
626.
Miami River, Ohio, Works of Mound
-Its mouth a boundary of Ohio, 280.
-British trading post on it about 1750,
189.
-Indians invaded by pioneers, 207, 229,
231.
Michigan, Its mineral wealth, 90, 94,
-The Lake, Early visits to it by the
French, 178, 180.
-Education in 1837, 357.
-The increase of the State in Popula-
tion, 242, 255, 256, 262.
-Contest over boundaries of the pro-
posed State, 304.
-The Constitutions of 1835 and 1850, 305.
Mims, Fort, Dreadful massacre there
by the Creeks, 214.
Mingoes, Indians of Ohio, 201, 204, 239.
Mining, Statistics, 425, 427, 580.
-On the Pacific Slope, 484, 580, 589.
-Quartz mining, 580, 621.
-Placer mining, 580, 588, 601, 620.
-Various mining regions, 624.
-Its products in Canada, 709.
-Mineral resources of Great Britain,
723, 737, 738, 749.
Minnesota, Its geological history, 38,
45, 100, 103, 701.
-Its relation to the rest of the Great
Valley, 83, 97, 466.
-Early explorations in it by the
French, 180.
-Progress of American Settlement, 260,
262, 306.
-Its Constitutional history, 306.
-Its agricultural production, 449.
Miocene means less recent, i. e., the
forms of animals and plants in these
rocks were less recent than those of
the Pliocene, 48, 545.
Mississippi River and its branches,
83, 97.
-Discovery and exploration of the
River, 173, 177, 180.
-Progress of transportation on the
rivers, 246, 250, 457.
Mississippi Valley, Its geological
formation, 32, 38, 45, 50.
-Its area and surface features, 81.
-Its Mineral resources, 89.
Mississippi Valley [continued].
-Its agricultural capacities, 97.
-Its industrial and political relations,
489, 495.
-Its direct foreign commerce in the
future, 464.
Mississippi, The State, Its early set-
tlement, 223, 237, 244.
-Its Constitutional history, 296, 403.
-The State in the Civil War, 378, 380.
-Cotton is its staple product, 449.
-Its growth in population, 242, 242, 255,
256.
Missouri River, 82, 578, 585.
Missouri, The State in geological times,
38, 45, 47, 53.
-Its mineral resources, 91, 94.
-Sources of agricultural wealth, 101.
-Early man left traces in it, 113, 122.
-Growth of population, 229, 242, 244,
255, 256, 262.
-Railroad beginnings in it, 258, 260.
-Constitutional history, 299.
-The Civil War in this State, 376, 384,
403.
-Industrial progress in the New Era,
425, 431, 435, 436, 449.
"Mistress of the Seas," England has
been so called, 94, 253, 673, 734.
Mobile, Ala., 181, 223, 377, 384.
Mobilians, Indian tribes near the Gulf
coast, 156, 163.
Mojave, Fort, on the Colorado River in
Arizona, 605.
Mollusks, A class of animals without
an internal skeleton or back bone,
-invertebrates, 72
Monroe, President of the United States,
528.
"Monroe Doctrine," that "America
belongs to Americans," 528.
Montana, Its condition during the first
part of Recent Time, before the Rocky
Mountains were raised, 49, 67, 78.
-Its situation and surface, 577.
-Its minerals and soil, 580.
-Its Indian races in early times, 581.
-The great future awaiting it, 583, 586,
588, 589.
Montezuma, the ruler of Mexico when
invaded by Cortez, 146.
Montgomery, Alabama, in the Civil
War, 375. 377.
Montreal, The largest city in Canada,
112, 679, 682, 702.
Moravians, Their Mission in Ohio de-
stroyed, 230.
Mormons of Utah, Their successful Ag-
riculture, 587, 592, 617.
Moors, Moorish, Saracens in Spain, 167,
628.
Moquis, a semi-civilized tribe of Indians
in New Mexico, 558, 562, 567.
Mother Country (England in relation
to her Colonies), 94, 646, 693, 732.
Mounds of the Mississippi Valley, their
number, 115.
-The Various classes of the Mounds, 118.
Mound Builders, Their numbers, 138.
-Their character as inferred from their
works, 116, 134, 146.
-The quality of their civilization, 121,
141, 143, 146, 152
-Their skill in certain arts, 141, 143.
-Their institutions, 135, 137, 141, 145, 147.
-Their probable origin, 115, 149, 567.
-What became of them, 149, 151.
Mountains, How they were raised, 26,
543.
-The first mountains were low, 38, 700,
702.
-The three Mountain-making Periods, 38,
544, 700.
-The Alleghanies are the oldest large
mountains, 38, 78.
-The Rocky Mountains are the youngest
of all, 38, 544.
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