clearing of timber from banks of, 99; expedition up, 162; name of, 206 Minnesota Valley, settlement of, 39; geological survey in, 165 Mission, 83 Missionaries, 3, 118, 146-158; methods of, suggested by Taliaferro, 150, 151; service of, 199 Missionary societies, 145 Missions, activities at, 155 Mississippi River, Carver on, 1; reference to, 2, 13, 15, 21, 30, 48, 55, 58, 74, 103, 107, 120, 126, 129, 131, 135, 143, 158, 167, 179, 187, 205, 207; foreign jurisdictions over country west of, 2, 3; expedition of Pike up, 4; activities of British traders on, 5-8; cession of land on, secured by Pike, 7, 8; treaties with Indians on, 12, 13; proposed trading posts on, 17; forts on, 18, 19; fort located at junction of Minnesota River and, 27; exploration of, by Cass, 28; scenery along, 79, 80; road along, 81; Indian villages on, 83; low water in, 86; seizure of liquor on, 144; first steamboat on upper, 159, 160; attempt to find source of, 163; discovery of source of, 167; advertisements of trip on, 168, 169; description of journey up, 169-175; reasons for cession of land east of, 178, 179; cession of land east of, 182-185, 192; military reservation on, 193 Mississippi Valley, settlement of, 39; erection of military posts in, 47; work of missionaries in, 146; opening of, to settlement, 185; reference to, 200 Missouri, increase in population of, 15; reference to, 66 Missouri, Territory of, 29, 32 Missouri Compromise, 66 Missouri Fur Company, murder of employees of, 113 Missouri Indians, 116 Missouri River, 2, 3, 6, 13, 21, 30, 37, 46, 56, 72, 107, 112, 113, 116, 135, 138, 148, 167, 205, 216, 230; English traders on, 4; Lewis and Clark expedition on, 4, 5; treaties with Indians on, 12, 13; forts on, 19, 20; return of Sacs and Foxes from, 42; removal of Indians to, 44 Modoc Indians, war with, 65 Molino del Rey, Battle of, death of Scott in, 60, 61, 62 Moncrief, W. T., 226 Monroe, James, 36, 49, 186, 236 _Monsieur Tonson_, 100 "Monsoon" (steamboat), 169 Montreal, activities of merchants of, 4 Moores, Hazen, 143 Morgan's Bluff, 89 Morrill, Mr., 50 Morse, Jedidiah, plan of, for civilizing Indians, 103, 118 Mud Lake, 125, 191 Mumford, Mr., 101 Murderers, surrender of, by Indians, 113; killing of, by Chippewas, 122-124; punishment of, 125, 126, 132 Murphy, R. G., 71, 145 Musick, Peter, killing of cattle of, 191 Musket flints, 77 Muskrat furs, exchange of, for liquor, 142 Muskrats, trapping of, 105 Mutinies, causes of, 91