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.