PREFACE 



THIS volume covers the period which followed 

 the checkered but finally successful war waged 

 by the United States Government against the North- 

 western Indians, and deals with the acquisition and 

 exploration of the vast region that lay beyond the 

 Mississippi. It was during this period that the 

 West rose to real power in the Union. The boun- 

 daries of the old West were at last made certain, 

 and the new West, the Far West, the country be- 

 tween the Mississippi and the Pacific, was added 

 to the national domain. The steady stream of in- 

 coming settlers broadened and deepened year by 

 year; Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio became 

 States, Louisiana, Indiana, and Mississippi Territo- 

 ries. The population in the newly settled regions 

 increased with a rapidity hitherto unexampled; and 

 this rapidity, alike in growth of population and in 

 territorial expansion, gave the West full weight 

 in the national councils. 



The victorious campaigns of Wayne in the North, 

 and the innumerable obscure forays and reprisals 

 of the Tennesseeans and Georgians in the South, 

 so cowed the Indians that they all, North and South 

 alike, made peace; the first peace the border had 



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