EARLY HISTORY OF OHIO.-Settlement at Marietta-Character of the Early
Settlers-The Miami Country-French Settlement of Gallipolis-Other Set-
tlements-Adventures-Voyaging-Wild Scenery,..............
PIONEERS OF TENNESSEE.-Settlements on the Holsten-Attacks of the Indians
-Military Expeditions-Treaties-Incidents,..
INDIAN ANTIQUITIES.--Mounds of Mississippi-Explorations-Mounds of Illi-
nois,.....
THE MISSISSIPPI.-Schoolcraft's Discovery of its Source-Lake Pepin-The
Maiden's Rock, a Legend-St. Peters-Falls of St. Anthony-Brown's Falls
-Scenery of the Mississippi-Squatter Life-Commerce of the River-
Navigation, Floods, Floating Timber, Snags, Sawyers-Keelboats, Flatboats,
Rafts-Characteristics of the Boatmen-Incidents-Robber Bands-Earth-
quakes-First Steamboat-Floating Palaces-Cosmopolitanism of the Pas-
sengers,
MISSOURI.-Early History-Settled by the French-St. Louis founded, 1764-
Attacked by the British and Indians, 1778—Cession of the Territory-Rapid
Increase Natural Resources-Mineral Wealth-Lead Mines-Iron Moun-
tain-Soil and Productions,..
WESTERN SCENERY.-Forests-Prairie Landscape, its Verdure, Flowers, Pio-
turesque Groves-Prairie on Fire-Winter Scene-Oak-openings-Rolling
Prairie-Table Lands-Flint Knobs-Salt Plains-Perpendicular Rocks
Region of the Buffalo-Salt Licks-Habits of the Bison-Hunting-Indian
Method-Hunting Wild Horses The Prairie Dog-Indian Village,........ 112
THE OREGON REGION.-Discovery of the Columbia-Government Expedition-
Astoria and the Fur Trade-Fur-bearing Animals-The Pacific Fur Compa
ny, its History-Fate of the Settlement-Missionaries' journey to Oregon-