Bonanza farms, 194 Bull, Ole, 184 Bonar, 1 Bonner, Henry, publisher, 21 Bottgher, 53 Bourses, or European Exchanges, 222 Bowyer, Col. John, 40 Braila, Roumania, 216 Bradshaw, Prof., 40 Brains, John, 59 Bread, making of, 237, 238; record time from standing grain to, 238; cheapness of, 238 Bread tax, 240, 241 Brokers, wheat, 219, 222, 224 Brooks, Absalom, 58 Brown, A. C., 66 Brown, Senator, of Miss., 93 Bryant, 76 Buckle, 204 Budapest, Bourse in, 222; "new process" mills in, 235, 236 Buenos Ayres, 218, 222, 229 Buffalo, N. Y., 69, 216 Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton, 130 Burson, W. W., 115 Bushnell, Reaper manufacturer, 103, 120 Butler, E. K., 143, 148 Butler, Gen., 36 C Cablegrams, 233 Calhoun, 164, 178 California, 51, 82, 190, 243 Calvin, John, 156, 157, 168 Canada, grain inspectors in, 222; grain speculation in, 225 Canada (western), wheat crop of, 209; railways of, 212, 213; development of, 227, 229 Canadian Pacific Railway, 227 Canal, first, in Chicago, 75 Carlyle, 155 Carnegie, Andrew, 56 Carpenter, "Pump," 114, 115, 117 Carson, Miss Polly, 40, 41 Carthage, ruins of, 242 Cash, John, 35 Cavaliers of Virginia, 20 Châlons, Emperor Napoleon's estate, 134 Chautauqua idea, originator of, 120 Chicago, 4, 30, 31, 37, 50, 67, 68, 70-78, 83, 85, 97, 106, 137, 144, 146, 151-153, 162, 166, 188, 189, 192, 196, 201, 214, 215, 218, 219, 222, 223 Chicago fire of 1871, 30, 151-153, 182 China, opium traffic of, 204; future use of wheat in, 232, 243 Chopin, 1, 51 Christian, Minneapolis miller, 236 Cincinnati Democratic Convention, 171 Circus, first, in Chicago, 71 City and town dwellers, proportion of, 195, 196 Civil War, _see_ Secession, War of Clay, Henry, 15, 164 _Clermont_, Fulton's steamboat, 7 Cleveland, Ohio, 73 Collins Line, 131 Colt's pistol, 130, 131 Columbus, Reaper traced back to, 17 Congress, first recognition of Chicago by, 72; Lincoln elected to, 72; patent suits carried to, 91, 92; how inventors have been treated by, 95 Cooper, Peter, 11, 155 Corn stored at Chicago, 215 Corn Trade Association, London, 221 _Corn Trade News_, of Liverpool, 221 Corners in wheat, 226 Cort, 53 Cotton-gin, 52, 97, 191 Covenanters, Scotch, 19, 23, 157 Cradle, 5, 27, 45 Crichton-Browne, Sir James, 204 Crimean War, 190 Criminals in period of 1809, 8 Cromwell, 173, 185 Crosby, Minneapolis miller, 236 Cross of the Legion of Honor given Cyrus H. McCormick by Emperor Napoleon III., 135 Crystal Palace, London, 127 D Dalrymple, Oliver, 193, 194 Darwin, 1, 51 Davis, H. Winter, 99 Davy, 131 Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 100 Deere, John, 49, 131 Deering, William, 115, 116, 118, 121, 150 De Lesseps, 70 Denmark, 241 Department store, free trial given by, 80