Community, "beloved community," 358; life, 347; type of settlement, 73, 74, 125 Competition, 154, 203, 277, 308, 312 Compromise, 174, 198, 230, 236; slavery, 140, 142 Concentration of power and wealth, 245, 261, 266, 280 Concord, Mass., 39 Concurrent majority, 118 Congregational church, 74, 112 Congress and frontiersmen, 252-253 Connecticut, frontier towns, 42, 45, 53; land policy, 76 Connecticut River, 52, 53, 72 Connecticut Valley, 63, 73 Conquest, 269 Conscience, American, 328 Constitution, U. S., 209, 244 Constitutional convention of 1787, 249 Constitutions, state, 121, 252, 352; reconstruction, 192 Cooperation, voluntary, 165, 257, 258 Corn, areas, 149; belt, 151 Corporations, 265, 328 Cotton culture, 28, 139, 255; early extension, 7; transfer from the East to Mississippi Valley, 194 "Cotton Kingdom," 174, 189, 194, 198 Coureurs de bois, 182 Cow pens, 16, 88 Crockett, Davy, 105 Crops, migration, 149 Currency, 148; evil, 32; expansion, 210 Cutler, Manasseh, 141 Dairy interests in Wisconsin, 234, 236 Dakotas, settlement, 145, 146 Darien, Ga., 98 Davis, Jefferson, 105, 139, 174 De Bow, J. D. B., 197 De Bow's _Review_, 217 Debs, E. V., 281 Dedham, 40, 58 Deerfield, 48, 52, 58, 70 Democracy, 32, 54, 306; doubts of, 280; established in Old West, 107; free land and, 274; frontier, early, 106; frontier and, 30, 31, 247, 249; Godkin on, 307; in early 18th century, 98; Jacksonian, 192, 302, 342-343; Jeffersonian, 250, 251; magnitude of achievement in the West, 258; Middle West, 154; Mississippi Valley, 183; neighborhood, 346; new type in West, 210, 216; Ohio Valley, influence, 172; Ohio Valley and, 175; organized, 357; origin, 293; outcome of American experiences, 266; pressure on the universities, 283; significance of Mississippi Valley in promoting, 190; Upland South, 165; Western contributions, 243; Western ideals, 261; _see also_ Pioneer democracy Democratic party, 327, 330; basis, 248; Middle Western wing, 352 Democratic-Republican party, 250 Denver, Colo., 19 De Tocqueville. _See_ Tocqueville Detroit, 135, 150 Development, American, 205, 221; four changes, 244; personal, 271; significant decade, 246-247; study of, 10; true point of view, 3; Western, 218 D'Iberville. _See_ Iberville Discovery, 271, 293, 301, 306 Doddridge, Joseph, 115 Dogs for hunting Indians, 45 Douglas, S. A., 140; Lincoln debates, 230 Douglas, William, 109 Down east, 79 Dracut, 111 Dreams, 301, 339 Duel, 253 Duluth, 150, 151, 234 Dunkards, 263 Dunstable, 48, 56 Duquesne, Abraham, 14 Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817), 63; fears of pioneer class, 251 East, efforts to restrict advance of frontier, 33, 34; fears of the West, 208; out of touch with West, 18 Economic forces and political institutions, 243 Economic historian, 332 Economic legislation and Ohio Valley, 170 Education, 282; Middle West, 156 Edwards, Jonathan, 63