Mackinac, Sara Andrew Shafer on, 121-145; situation, 121-124; description of, 124-128; first explorers and missionaries, 128-130; Marquette and La Salle, 130-134; Pontiac's conspiracy, 136-140; comes into possession of United States, 140; War of 1812, 140-142; the fur trade, 142; Rev. Eleazar Williams, 144 Mackinaw, 90 McKinley, Pres't Wm., 52, 422 McLean at Cincinnati, 74 McLeon, Gen., 469 McLoughlin, Dr. John, in Oregon, 544-553 McTavish, 543 Madison, President James, 116 Madison, R.G. Thwaites on, 235-264; before the settlement, 235-238; choosing a State capital, 238; laying out the town, 240; the first dwelling, 240; coming of the Legislature, 242; early description of, 242; slow growth, 243; attempts to remove the capital, 245; early legislative sessions, 246; the Barstow-Bashford case, 248-250; the State House, 250; the State university, 252-260; the city to-day, 260-264 Madrid, 626, 629 Majorca, 635 Malden in War of 1812, 114 Manderson, C.F., 420 Marcy, march of, 432 Marcy, Secretary Wm. L., 472 Mare Island, 592 Margane, François, 163 Marie Antoinette, 8 Marietta, 58, 71; Muriel Campbell Dyar on, 1-30; Ohio Company formed, 2; the colony, 4-6; the journey, 7; the first summer on the Ohio, 8; the first governor, 10; the coming of the Frenchmen, 11-13; hardships, 13; Indian wars, 14-18; material prosperity, 18; the Blennerhassett tragedy, 20-22; the modern Marietta, 22; the College, 24-26; the Mound Cemetery, 26-28; relics, 28 _ff._ Marin del Valle, 454 Markham, Edwin, on San Francisco, 569-616 Marquette, 132-134, 302, 333 Marsh's trading post, 214 Martineau, Harriet, 78 Mary Institute, St. Louis, 360 _Maryland_, the, 558 Mason, Gov., 670 Mason, Stevens T., 238 _Mayflower_, the, 88, 620 _Mayflower_, the new, 1, 7 Meigs, Gov. R.J., 6, 28 Menard, Pierre, 205 Merrill, Samuel, 152 Methodists on the Willamette, 550 Meurin, Father, 193 Mexico, and California, 572, 578, 626, 633, 658; and Kansas City trade, 385; war with, 27, 362, 432 Miami and Erie Canal, 82 Micheltorena, 664, 665 Michigan Territory, 235 Michilimackinac, 124, 136 Michsawgyenan, 122 Miles, Gen., 517 Millard, Joseph H., 420 Miller, Joaquin, 614 Miller's Hill, Nebraska, 406 Milwaukee, 202, 214, 238, 239, 245 Mineral Point, 236, 238 Minisink, massacre of, 61