Railroads, 9, 49, 58, 70, 93, 110, 142, 150, 200, 211, 213, 238 Pennsylvania, 30, 150 New York Central, 32, 110, 150 Michigan Southern, 49 Michigan Central, 49, 200 Missouri Pacific, 93 Boston & Albany, 110 Boston & Maine, 110 New York, New Haven & Hartford, 110 Nickel Plate, 150 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, 150 Erie Railroad, 150 Baltimore & Ohio, 150 Wheeling & Lake Erie, 150 Southern Pacific, 238 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, 239 Union Pacific, 239 Western Pacific, 239 Revere, Paul, 124 Revolution, War of the, 8, 75, 111, 112, 119, 122, 192, 207, 266 Richmond, 240 Rogers, Major Robert, 191, 193 Roosevelt, Theodore, 224 Ross, Betsy, 86 Sacramento River, 230 St. Gaudens, 113, 127 St. Lawrence River, 190 St. Louis, 89-104 frontier village, 89 trade center, 93 railroad center, 94 favorable location, 98 industries, 100 distributing center, 102 fur, grain, and live-stock market, 102, 103 San Francisco, 227-244 early history, 227 growth of, 227, 228 "child of the mines," 228 San Francisco Bay, 230 trade center, 231 exports, 231 imports, 231 industries, 233 United States mint, 237 leading salmon port, 239 San Joaquin River, 230 Sargent, John S., 128 Sault Ste. Marie, 190 Saur, Christopher, 73 Schuylkill River, 68, 75 Scioto River, 140 Shaw, Colonel, 113 Shortest railway routes from Chicago, 301 Shortest railway routes from New York, 300 Silver, 228 Standard Oil Company, 143 Steel, 56, 71, 173, 180 Straits of Mackinac, 190 Stuyvesant, Peter, 6 Sugar, 32, 257, 261 Susquehanna River, 163 Thevis, Father, 255 Tonawanda, 219 Touro, Judah, 257 Trumbull, John, 275 Union Stockyards, 59 University City, 96 Venice, 98 War of 1812, 44, 192, 209, 246, 268 Washington, 202, 265-298 the capital city, 265 location, 265 story of, 266 District of Columbia, 267, 288, 289 plan of the city, 268 capitol, 272 House of Representatives, 277, 289 Supreme Court, 279 Senate, 279, 289 Library of Congress, 280 White House, 282 National Treasury, 284, 286 Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 285 Washington Monument, 291 Post Office Department, 294 Arlington National Cemetery, 294 Washington, George, 8, 84, 87, 119, 171, 267, 282, 294 Westinghouse, George, 185 Westinghouse Electric Company, 185 Winne, Cornelius, 207, 208 Winthrop, John, 105 Woodward, Augustus B., 202 World's Columbian Exposition, 63 York, Duke of, 7 * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: The original spelling and minor inconsistencies in the spelling and formatting have been maintained. Inconsistent hyphenation and accents are as in the original if not marked as a misprint.