Since with this volume the series is brought to a close, the editor trusts that the publishers, Messrs. G.P. Putnam's Sons, will lay aside their reluctance to be mentioned in the Preface, and will permit the editor to express his admiration and indebtedness for their share, larger than is usual with publishers, in the production of the series. To his wife, Gertrude Wilson Powell, acknowledgment is also due for aid given in this as in the earlier volumes, the full value of which cannot here be indicated. Besides making two important contributions to the volume, Messrs. R.G. Thwaites and Harold Bolce have ever been ready with suggestion and counsel, always valued and almost always followed. To Doctors Talcott Williams, Albert Shaw, and George Petrie, the editor would speak this last word of gratitude for cordial and skilled assistance in connection not alone with this book but with the whole undertaking. This closing volume now goes out, with the editor's best-wishes, to the earlier friends of the series and to the new friends yet to be gained for it. LYMAN P. POWELL. ST. JOHN'S RECTORY, LANSDOWNE, PENNSYLVANIA, September 21, 1901. [Illustration] CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION Reuben G. Thwaites xix MARIETTA Muriel Campbell Dyar 1 CLEVELAND Charles F. Thwing 31 CINCINNATI Milton E. Ailes 55 DETROIT Silas Farmer 87 MACKINAC Sara Andrew Shafer 121 INDIANAPOLIS Perry S. Heath 147 VINCENNES William Henry Smith 169 CHICAGO Lyman J. Gage 197 MADISON Reuben G. Thwaites 235 MINNEAPOLIS } Charles B. Elliott 265 AND ST. PAUL } DES MOINES Frank I. Herriott 301 ST. LOUIS William Marion Reedy 331 KANSAS CITY Charles S. Gleed 375 OMAHA Victor Rosewater 401 DENVER John Cotton Dana 425 SANTA FÉ Frederick Webb Hodge 449 SALT LAKE CITY James Edward Talmage 479 SPOKANE Harold Bolce 509 PORTLAND Thomas L. Cole 535 SAN FRANCISCO Edwin Markham 569 MONTEREY Harold Bolce 617 LOS ANGELES Florence E. Winslow 645 INDEX 685 [Illustration] ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE THE DEARBORN MONUMENT _Frontispiece_ MARIETTA MARIETTA 3