INDEX 



ADAMS, EDWARD F., quoted, 130. 



Africa, 13. 



Agua Fria River, Arizona, 239. 



Anaheim, founding and character 

 of, 94. 



Ancient Canals in Arizona, 35. 



Anderson, R.A., 291. 



Auimas River, New Mexico, 229. 



Antelope Valley of California, 140. 



Aridity: Effect on settlement of 

 Middle West, 17 ; key to institu- 

 tions of the West, 30. 



Arizona : Likeness to region of the 

 Nile, 237 ; northern part of terri- 

 tory, 238 ; Sfclt River Valley, 238 ; 

 its irrigation systems, 239 ; im- 

 portance of storage plans, 239- 

 240 ; climate and orange culture, 

 241; a great fig orchard, 242; 

 largo farms of the present and 

 small ones of the future, 242- 

 243 ; the people of the territory, 

 243. 



Arkansas Valley, 155. 



Asia Minor, 32. 



Austin, Nevada, 195. 



Australasia, 13. 



Australia, Village Settlement in, 288. 



Aztecs in Mexico, 34. 



BAILEY, Professor L. II., quoted, 



177. 



Baldwin, Historian, 34. 

 Bear Flag, California's day of, 94. 

 Beuverhead Valley, Montana, 2i>3. 



Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, 213. 



Billings, Montana, 227. 



"Billy the Kid," 231. 



Bitter Root Valley, Montana, 225. 



Blue Grass Region of Kentucky 



compared with arid region as to 



fertility, 39. 



Boise City, capital of Idaho, 183. 

 Boone, Daniel, 15. 

 Boyd, David, historian of the Gree- 



ley Colony, 88. 

 Bozeman, Montana, 225. 

 Brisbane, Albert, 77. 

 Brook Farm, 78-257. 

 Bruneau River, Nevada, 199. 

 Budd, Governor, 131. 

 Bully Creek Valley, Oregon, 192. 

 Butte, Montana, 226. 



CACIIK LA POUDRE Valley, Colorado, 

 155. 



Caldwell, Idaho, 183. 



California : Why so little under- 

 stood, 121 ; influence of former 

 literature on the subject, 123 ; 

 speculative tendencies of the past, 

 128 ; burdens of fruit-growers be- 

 fore co-operation was employed, 

 130 ; valuable lessons of the last 

 twenty years, 131; compared with 

 France, 131 ; agricultural settle- 

 ment in 1880-90, 132; profitable 

 lines of production, 133 ; future 

 of the olive industry, 134; com- 

 petitors in fruit-growing, 135 ; 



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