Minneapolis--St. Paul, C.B. Elliott on, 265-300; Falls of St. Anthony discovered, 265; title to the region passes from the Indians, 267; Fort Snelling established, 268; first settler on site of St. Paul, 270; St. Paul becomes State capital, 271; growth of the rival town, 272-276; the two cities compared, 276-300 Minnehaha, falls of, 290 Mission Dolores, 574-579, 632 Missouri, _see_ St. Louis and Kansas City Missouri Compromise, 353 Missouri Pacific Railroad, 386, 398 Mobile, 90 Montcalm, 338 Monterey, 450, 574, 581, 669; Harold Bolce on, 617-644; historic background, 617-620; Vizcaino finds the harbor, 620; rediscovered by Junípero Serra, 622-626; his great services, 626-628; Spain sends relief, 629; the Spanish capital, 630-634; a visit to, 635-644 Montezuma, 450 Montgomery, Capt., 581 Mormon, Book of, quoted, 490 Mormons, in Nebraska, 406-409; in Colorado, 425, 432; in Utah, 435; _see also_ Salt Lake City Morrison, Wm., 466 Morse, S.F.B., 125 Morton, Oliver P., 158, 167 Moultons, the, at Marietta, 16 Mound Builders, 26, 63, 169, 302 Mount Auburn, Cincinnati, 82 Mullanphy, John, 360 Munford, Munford & Hasbrook, 392 N Napoleon Bonaparte, 617, 635 _Natalia_, the, 635 Nebraska & Council Bluffs Ferry Co., 401 Nebraska Territory, 403 Nelson, W.R., 392 Néve, Gov., 652 New Albion, 572 Newburyport, Mass., 558 _New Mexican_, the, 474 New Mexico, _see_ Santa Fé New Orleans, 76, 333, 340, 344, 346, 347 New Spain, 572 New York, 43, 71, 75, 514 _News, The Kansas City_, 392 _News, The Rocky Mountain_, 437, 439 Niagara, 108, 528 Nichols, Gregg, 674 Nichols, Col. J.G., 674 Nicolet, Jean, visits Mackinac, 128 Nicollet, 302 Nito, Manuel, 654 North American Fur Company, 350 North Bend, settling of, 58 Northrup, H.M., 394 Northwest Company, 540 Northwest Fur Company, 510, 538 Northwest Territory, 1, 10 Northwestern University, 229, 230 Nye, 6 O Oakinagen, 542 Oakland, California, 610 _Observer, The St. Louis_, 362 O'Fallon Park, 369 Ohio Company, the, 2-4, 27, 101 Oliphant, Laurence, quoted, 273 Omaha, 462; Victor Rosewater on, 401-423; origin, 401-403; location, 404; visit of Lewis and Clark, 404-406; Mormon encampment at, 406-409; early government, 409-412; the Pacific Telegraph, 412-414; the Union Pacific Railway, 414-418; recent history, 418-420; the Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898, 420-423 Oñate founds Santa Fé, 449-453 Ordinance of 1787, 2, 4, 10, 101, 191 Oregon, _see_ Portland Oregon City, 535, 549-554 _Oregonian, The_, 558, 566 O'Reilly, Don Alexander, 338