Transcriber's Notes:
The following words appear in the text with and without hyphens. They have been left as in the original.
| battle-field | battlefield |
| coast-wise | coastwise |
| cow-pens | cowpens |
| head-rights | headrights |
| iron-master | ironmaster |
| new-comers | newcomers |
| non-sectional | nonsectional |
| out-vote | outvote |
| rail-splitter | railsplitters |
| sea-board | seaboard |
| slave-holding | slaveholding |
| tide-water | tidewater |
| un-won | unwon |
The following corrections have been made to the text:
page 25—as the nation marched westward.[period is missing in original]
page 40, footnote 40:5—"American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century,"[quotation mark missing in original]
page 48, footnote 48:4—Sheldon, "Deerfield,"[quotation mark missing in original]
page 49—your honours [original has extraneous opening parenthesis]we haue but litel laft
page 53—the frontier Towns.[original has extraneous quotation mark]
page 68, footnote 68:1—Powell, "Physiographic Regions[original has extraneous single quote]"
page 75, footnote 75:1—Egleston[original has Eggleston], "Land System of the New England Colonies,"
page 86—at least three foot within the ground."[quotation mark missing in original]
page 96, footnote 96:3—(N. Y., 1899)[closing parenthesis missing in original], pp. 149, 151;
page 117, footnote 117:3—pp. 440-447[original has 440-437]
page 118—it was being exploited,[original has period]
page 118, footnote 118:2—N. C.[original has N .C.]
page 123—Preëmption and preëmptions are hyphenated across line breaks in the original. The diaresis has been reinserted in the rejoined words.
page 163—American backwoodsmen[original has backswoodsmen]
page 167—to add the settlements[original has setlements]
page 171—social conditions of the people whose[original has who] needs
page 236—stronghold of resistance[original has resistence]
page 254—formal law and the subtleties[original has subleties]
page 268—that dwarf [original has extraneous word of] those of the Old World
page 310—to pause, to make an end,[original has period]
page 348—to his own business.[original has extraneous quotation mark]
page 353—at least before [original has extraneous word at] the present day
page 362—Bryan, W. J., 204, 236, 237, 246, 281, 327, 330[original has 329]
page 363, under Democracy—Godkin[original has Gookin] on, 307
page 363—Democratic party, 327, 330[original has 329]
page 363—Discovery, 271[original has 270], 293, 301, 306
page 363—Douglas[original has Douglass], William, 109
page 364—Forest[original has Foreign] Service, 320
page 364, under Germans—Palatine, 5, 82, 100, 109, 124[original also lists page 32 in error]
page 366—Henry, Patrick, 94[original has 95]
page 366, under Indians—hunting Indians with dogs, 45[original has 95]
page 367—Kipling, Rudyard, "Foreloper[original has Toreloper]," 270
page 368—Marietta, 124, 133[original has 132], 223, 257
page 368, under Michigan—development and resources, 233[original has 232]
page 371—Pynchon[original has Pyrichon], John, 51, 52
page 373—Spangenburg[original has Spangenberg], A. G.
Spelling and punctuation errors in quoted material have been left as in the original.
The index entry for James Glenn was after the entry for E. L. Godkin. The two entries were reversed to maintain alphabetical order. Index entries for Leicester and Leigh, B. W., were combined with the Legislation entry. Entries were moved as appropriate.