Frankfort, Kentucky: Boone erects palisades near present site of, 108; Boone buried here, 120. Frankland: 134. Franklin, Benjamin: 134. Franklin, Free State of: beginnings of, 124-5; legal tender in, 135; salaries of officers, 136; clings to standards of North Carolina, 136; ceases to exist, 138; looked southward for an alliance, 139. Free State of Franklin: 124-5. Freight rates: comparative costs in Europe and America, 390. Frémont: 224; first expedition, 241; second expedition, 242-245; hunts a more direct trail to California, 247-9; last expedition, 257-8; shall he share honors with Carson, 312. Frémont, Jessie Benton: 251. French, The: 47-8; expedition of 1735, 101. Friends, Society of: 77. Frontier, Western: question of gradually solves itself, 141-2; in 1810, 185. Frontiersman, American: outline of his westward progress, 87. Fur trade: its home in the West, 194; end of, 200; end of the beginning of a new day, foot-note, 238. “Fur trade, The American”: 337. Fur-traders: find a way to the Rockies, 186; many in the trans-Missouri before 1840, 339. Garces, Father: 327. Gardoquoi: Spanish minister, 139, 140. Geography, a lost art: 260. Georgia: few whites there in 1800, 46; part included in Free State of Franklin, 125; refuses to interfere in North Carolina-Franklin controversy, 137-8; sells a portion of its territory, 140. Germans, The: 76. Germany: emigration from to the United States, 408; wished division of China, 423. Gibson House, Helena: 216. Gillespie, Lieutenant: 248. Girty: 113. Gist, Christopher: 98, 101. Glenn, Hugh: 271. Gold: discovery of in California and its effect on the West, 200, 381-383. Governor of Louisiana: grants Daniel Boone a commission, 117. Grape vine: use of by Daniel Boone, 106. Great Britain: arms savages below the Great Lakes, 110; emigration to the United States, 408. Great Meadows: 96. Green River: exploration of by Ashley and Henry, 336. Greenbacks: value of in the West, 214. Greene, Jonathan H.: 176. Gregg, Josiah: 268, 275, 326. Hall, Fort: 289. Hall, John: 128. Hamilton: commandant of Detroit, 111. “Harrington”: 176. Harris, Ann: 79. Harris, Hannah: 78. Harrod, James: 99. Harrodsburg: 42, 99. Harvard College: 169. Hawkins, Joseph: 150. Helplessness of trapper without a horse: 28. Henderson, Colonel: 108. Henry, Fort: 332, 334. Henry, Major Andrew: builds Fort Henry, 334; undertakes exploration of Green River, 336. Hill, James J.: 390. Holden, Joseph: 103. Horse, The American: aid r=endered Western explorer, 25-31. Horse stealing: a serious crime, 28. Houston, Sam: 174, 177. Howard, John: 101. Howe, Henry: 352. Huger, Isaac: 140. Hunt: 333. Hunt, Wilson Price: 294. Hunter, John D.: 340. Hunter, Mary: 78. Hynds, Alexander: 130. Illinois Central Railroad: 369-371. Illinois, Governor of: 189.