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Pemaquid.
Fort Orleans

1625
1719 69,415

33,040

96,540

661,086

2,679,184

(near Jeffer

son City).

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From the Indian Kansas (Smoky 1836 French.
Water) and the French Arc, a
bow.

From the Indian-A weir or
dam of twigs for catching fish.

From the Spanish Pascua Flor-
ida-Flowery Easter, hence Flow-
ery, or Land of Flowers.

Perhaps from an Indian word
meaning Friends.

The French form of an Indian
word applied by the Sioux to the
"Gray-snow Tribe," and meaning
the "Drowsy or the "Sleepy
Ones."

From the Indian-Wild or Rush- 1848 French.
ing River (applied to the rapids of
the Wisconsin).

From the Spanish-The name
first occurs in a Spanish work of
fiction (1510); it was there given
to an imaginary island abounding
in gold.

From the Indian- Cloudy or
Whitish Water.

Either from the Indian-River
of the West, or from the Spanish
-Wild Marjoram, which grows
there in great abundance.

Little Rock.

1690? 53,850

1,128,179

1837 French.

Mackinaw.

1680? 58,915

2,093,889

1845 Spanish.

St. Augustine. 1565 58,680

391,422

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1863 English.

From the Spanish Sierra Ne- 1864 Americans. Genoa, at the vada (Snowy mountain ridge),

Snowy.

From the Indian-Water Valley, 1867 Americans. or Shallow River.

From the Spanish- -Red or 1876 Americans.
Colored (referring to the color of
the rocks).

From the Indian-Leagued or
Allied (referring to the confedera-
tion or league of the Sioux tribes).

From the Indian-See above.
From the Latin Mons, a moun-
tain,- The Land of Mountains.
In honor of George Washington.
From the Indian-Diadem of
the Mountains.

1889 English.

DATE OF

SETTLE

MENT.

SQUARE
MILES.

POPULA

TION IN
1790.

POPULA-
TION IN

1890.

1,427,096

included 762,794

1854

82,080

24,780

in 1790

in Va.

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Pioneer City?

1862 84,800

84,385

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1889 Americans. Yankton! 1889 Americans. Helena?

1889 Americans. Tumwater.
1890 Americans.

From the Indian-Great Plains. 1890 Americans. "-Mountain Home. 1896 Americans.

Total population in 1790, 3,929,214. Total population, including territories, in 1880, 50,189,200; in 1890, 62,622,250.
Five territories: (1) New Mexico, (2) Arizona, (3) Alaska, (4) Indian Territory, (5) Oklahoma; the District of Columbia.
The? indicates conflict of authorities or lack of positive information.

NOTE.-Authorities disagree on a number of the dates and place of settlement of states. The population and areas of states are
taken from the United States Census Report of 1890. The total area of the United States, including Alaska (577,390), New Mexico
(122,580), Utah (84,970), Arizona (113,020), Indian Territory (31,400), Oklahoma (39,030), and the District of Columbia (70) is about
3,580,242 square miles. "This area," says Lippincott, "is to some extent conjectural, and the figures of different authorities vary
somewhat." The latest estimate in Chambers' Encyclopædia (New Edition) makes the total area of the United States, with Alaska,
3,602,990 square miles; while Professor Whitney in the Encyclopædia Britannica (New Edition) gives the total area at 3,550,549
square miles.

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A SHORT LIST OF BOOKS ON AMERICAN HISTORY.

Bibliography.

Channing and Hart's Guide to the Study of American History.

Adams's Manual of Historical Literature. References in Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, 8 vols.

Foster's References to United States History.

Hinsdale's How to Study and Teach History.

Historical Geography and Maps.

Hart's Epoch Maps of the United States (no text).

Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States.

MacCoun's Historical Geography of the United States (revised edition). Gannett's Boundaries of the States (no maps).

Shaler's United States, 2 vols.

Works of Reference.

Lalor's Cyclopædia of U. S. History, 3 vols. Larned's History for Ready Reference, 5 vols.

Lossing's Cyclopædia of United States History, 2 vols.

Jameson's Dictionary of United States History.

Rand's Economic History since 1763 (revised edition).

Harper's Book of Facts.

Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia (from 1876).
Poole's Index to Reviews.

Jones's Index to Legal Periodicals.
Index to Congressional Documents.
The American Historical Review.
The Magazine of American History.
The Magazine of Western History.
Harper's First Century of the Republic.

The Yale Review.

The North American Review for 1876.
The Johns Hopkins University Studies.
The Political Science Quarterly.
The Harvard Historical Studies.
The Columbia University Studies.
American State Papers, 50 vols.

The Papers of the American Historical
Association.

The Papers of the American Antiquarian Society.

The American Academy of Political and
Social Science.

Debates in Parliament.
Parliamentary History.

Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, 6 vols.

The National Cyclopædia of American Biography, 6 vols.

The Collections of State Historical Societies. Colonial Records.

Sparks's American Biography, 25 vols. Morse's American Statesman, 25 vols. (in progress).

Scudder's American Commonwealths, 13

vols. (in progress).

Bishop's American Manufactures, 2 vols. Boone's Education in the United States. Richardson's American Literature, 2 vols. Wright's Industrial Evolution of the United States.

Bryce's American Commonwealth, 2 vols. (revised edition). Hubert's Inventors.

The Tribune Almanac.

Niles's Register (1811-1849), 76 vols.
The Atlantic Magazine.

The North American Review.

The Forum.

The Nation.

Scribner's Magazine.

The Century Magazine.
Harper's Magazine.

The Statesman's Year-Book.

Constitutional and Political History.

Von Holst's Constitutional History of the
United States (to 1861), 9 vols.
Bryce's American Commonwealth, 2 vols.
(revised edition).

Elliot's Debates in the Constitutional Con

vention, 3 vols.

Foster's Commentaries on the Constitution, 2 vols.

Landon's Constitutional History.

Poore's State Charters and Constitutions, 2 vols.

Benton's Abridgment of Congressional Debates (1789-1850), 16 vols.

Wheeler's History of Congress, 2 vols.
The Congressional Globe.

The Congressional Record.
Moore's History of Congress.

Hazard's State Papers (1492-1767), 2 vols. Pickering's (English) Statutes at Large, 109 vols.

Force's American Archives(1774-1783),9 vols. The Federalist.

Preston's Documents illustrative of American History.

Williams's Statesman's Manual (1789-1847), 2 vols.

Johnston's American Politics.

Stanwood's Presidential Elections. Carson's History of the United States Court. Boutwell's The Constitution at the End of the Century. (U. S. Supreme Court decisions.)

United States Statutes (and Treaties) at Large, 28 vols. (in progress).

Bolles's Financial History of the United States, 2 vols.

Sumner's American Currency.

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Adams's British Orations, 3 vols.
Johnston's American Orations, 4 vols.
McPherson's Political History of the Rebel-
lion.

McPherson's Political History of Reconstruction.

McPherson's Handbook of Politics (from

1870), 13 double vols. (in progress). The Collected Works of Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Jay, John Adams, Madison, Morris, Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Lincoln, Seward, and Sumner. Memoirs of J. Q. Adams (1795-1848), 12 vols. Ingersoll's Recollections (1792-1803), 2 vols. Benton's Thirty Years in the Senate (18201850), 2 vols.

Wise's Seven Decades (1790-1862). Blaine's Twenty Years in Congress (18611881), 2 vols.

Sargent's Public Men and Events (18171895), 2 vols.

Julian's Political Recollections (1840-1872). McCulloch's Men and Measures of Half a Century (1833-1883).

Cox's Three Decades (1855-1885). Chittenden's Personal Reminiscences (18401890).

Sherman's Recollections (1855-1895), 2 vols. Thompson's Recollections of Sixteen Presidents (1789-1865), 2 vols.

Histories of the United States in
General.

Scribner's United States (Bryant & Gay revised) (1492-1896), 5 vols.

Hart's Epochs of American History (14921889), 3 vols.

Scribner's American History Series (14921889), 5 vols.

Higginson's Larger History of the United

States (1492-1837).

Goldwin Smith's United States (1492-1871). Andrews's United States (1492-1890), 2 vols. Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America (1000-1850), 8 vols.

Schouler's United States (1783-1861), 5 vols. Bancroft's United States (1492-1789), 6 vols. H. H. Bancroft's Pacific States, 34 vols. Hildreth's United States (1492-1821), 6 vols. Johnston's United States (reprinted with

additions from the Encyclopædia Britannica (1492-1889).

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