Elliott, British partisan. 
  Ellicott, Andrew, Surveyor-General at Natchez. 
  Explorers, of the Far West. 
  Fallen Timbers, battle of. 
  Federalist party, wrong in its attitude
    towards West. 
  Filibusters at New Orleans. 
  Flat boatmen. 
  Folch, Spanish Governor. 
  Frontiersmen,
    tend to retrograde;
    importance of;
    hatred of Indians;
    some of them profit by Indian wars;
    characteristics of;
    fondness for a lonely life;
    engage in river trade;
    but fundamentally farmers;
    build few and small towns;
    capacity for self-help;
    traits of those who became permanent settlers;
    their political organization;
    join together for common objects;
    hardness of life;
    existence in a log cabin;
    Americans the pioneers;
    failure of old-world immigrants on frontier;
    pioneers suspicious of merchants;
    sometimes repudiate debts;
    viciousness of their military system;
    their individualism in religious matters;
    they strain against Spanish boundaries;
    hated and feared by Spaniards;
    their advantages over Spaniards. 
  Galphinton, treaty at. 
  Game, vast herds of, on the great plains. 
  Gayoso de Lemos,
    sound advice to Carondelet;
    builds fort at Chickasaw Bluffs;
    negotiations with Wilkinson;
    anxiety over murder of his envoy;
    endeavors to check Protestantism among the settlers. 
  Genet, French Ambassador,
    his preposterous career;
    wishes to procure the conquest of Louisiana;
    commissions Clark;
    checked by Washington;
    recalled. 
  Georgia,
    makes her own treaties with Creeks;
    lawlessness of her backwoodsmen;
    they and the Indians commit brutal outrages on one another. 
  Girtys,
    one of, with treacherous Delawares;
    go with war parties of Indians;
    Simon, at Fallen Timbers. 
  Glass, Indian Chief. 
  Godoy, Prince of Peace, makes treaty with Pinckney. 
  Greeneville, Fort and afterwards Town of,
    founded by Wayne;
    treaty of. 
  Gunn, Senator,
    connection with Yazoo frauds. 
  Guyon, Isaac, Captain. 
  Hardin, Col.  John, treacherously slain by Indians. 
  Harrison, W. H.
  Hart, Thomas. 
  Hawkins, Benjamin, his advice to Blount. 
  Hearne, Arctic explorer. 
  Herrera, Spanish General. 
  Holston, treaty of, with Cherokees. 
  Horse-thieves, white allies of. 
  Indiana Territory. 
  Indians,
    treachery of;
    hostility of;
    misjudged by Easterners;
    Northwestern, hold great council at Miami Rapids;
    band in open war against Americans;
    victory over St. Clair;
    serve British as a protection, and as police;
    their ravages;
    innumerable obscure conflicts with;
    Creeks and Cherokees;