Cañon of the Colorado: 231, 328. Canot du Maître: 23. Canot du Nord: 22, 195, 197. Caravan trade: its extent, 281; goods carried, 282; carried on by Southern-Western men, 282. Cardenas: 328. Carolina: 47; rallying ground for adventures, 88. Carolina, North: its relations with the Washington District, 128; annexes Watauga, 131; gives Washington District to the United States, 132; repeals act of cession of Washington District, 133; appoints officers for state of Franklin, 137. Carson, Kit: grandson of Daniel Boone, 120; birth, 223; description, 225; dress and equipment, 227; greatest of American travelers, 228; dispute concerning birth place, 228; boyhood days, 229; wanderings from 1826 to 1834, 229-238; first marriage, 239; hunter for Bent’s Fort, 1834-1842, 239-240; guide for first Frémont expedition, 241; second marriage, 242; guide for second Frémont expedition, 242-245; guide for Frémont a third time, 247-9; messenger to Washington three times, 249, 250, 251; appointed lieutenant in the U. S. A., 251; expedition with eighteen old friends, 254; sheep drive to California, 255; Indian agent and counselor, 257; death, 258. Carter, John: 128. Castrillon: Mexican general, 180. Caucasian population: largest is that of America, 374. Cavalier: 37, 53, 75. Census: second of the U. S., 45. Center of population in 1860: 220. Central Pacific Railroad: 209. Chambers, Baird and McKnight: 268-271. Champlain: 265. Cherokees: 54; League with Spain, 59. Cherronesus: 69, 124. Chicago: a city of transportation, 364. Chicasas: 140. China: struggle of the nations for its commerce, 422-424. Chittenden: 337. Choctaws: 140. Chouteau: 266, 338. Church: first in the West, 126. Civil government: first written compact of, 130. Civil War, The: causes and results, 354. Clark: 71, 287. Cleveland: founded, 70. Cleveland, Moses: 70. Coahuila: 174. Coal oil: price of, 214. Coast Indians: 331. Cocke, General William: 134. College: first in the West, 126. Colorado, Grand Cañon of: 231, 328. Colter, John: 335. Commerce, Western: 191. “Commerce of the Prairies, The”: 268. Commercial West: its beginning, 65-6. Congress: sells land to Ohio Land Company, 41; proposes to sell vacant lands, 132; does not recognize independence of Franklin, 137. Coureurs du bois: 194. Coole, William: 103. Cooley, William: 103. Cooper, Braxton: 271. Cooper, Fennimore: 45. Corn: price of in early days, 189. Coronado: 339. Cost of living: greater to-day than in 1899, 392. Courts: follow swiftly into Kentucky, 112. Crittenden: orator at Boone’s burial in Kentucky, 120. Creek War: 154.