United States commissioners, puzzled by conduct of Creeks; peace commissioners, Lincoln, Randolph, and Pickering, failure to make treaty with Northwestern Indians. United States Government, reluctantly wars on Indians; injustice of, towards Chickasaws; towards Blount; towards the Southwesterners generally. Van Cleve, Benjamin, at St. Clair's defeat. Van Rensselaer, Captain, wounded at Fallen Timbers. Wabash Indian towns, ravaged by Kentuckians. Washington, wrath over St. Clair's defeat; effect of his administration on the West. Watts, John, Cherokee chief; attacks Buchanan's Station; wounded; speech. Wayne, Anthony, General, complained of by British; takes command of army; his military training; goes to the Ohio; camps near Pittsburgh; trains his troops; builds Greeneville; his detachments cut off by Indians; advances against the tribes; fine horsemanship and marksmanship of his men; his use of Indians and backwoodsmen as scouts; reaches the Glaize; the Miami Rapids; the Fallen Timbers; his decisive victory; his correspondence with British commander; destroys Indian towns; goes into winter-quarters at Greeneville; concludes treaty of peace; effect of his victory on Southern Indians; measures against Clark; stops filibustering. Webb, Lieutenant, feat of, at Fallen Timbers. Wells, William, chief of Wayne's scouts, his feats. West, the Far, unknown and unexplored. Westerners, fundamental unity of; relationship with the Southerners; extent of their settlements; homogeneity of; characteristics of; importance of, in Union. Whitley, Major, at attack of Chickamauga towns. Wilkinson, General, raids Wabash towns; buries the dead of St. Clair's army; peculiar infamy of his intrigues with the Spaniards; his relations with Burr; acquitted of treason. Wilkinson, Lieut. J. B.. Yazoo Land Companies, early efforts of various Kentuckians to get possession of the Yazoo lands; South Carolina Yazoo Company; the Virginia Company and Patrick Henry; Tennessee Company and Zachariah Cox; South Carolina Company and Walsh and O'Fallon; Federal authorities interfere against it; Yazoo companies again spring into life; corruption caused by; end of. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Winning of the West, Volume Four by Theodore Roosevelt