H.

Hamilton County (O.) organized, 68.

Hard Times (Miss.), location changed by Mississippi River, 177.

Hawkins, John, Shreve compared with, 175.

Hawley, Jesse, and Erie Canal, 115, 119.

Hazard, of Pennsylvania, 31; and Lehigh coal, 40.

Hempstead, fur trader, 186.

Henry Clay (steamboat), 156.

Hercules (lake freighter), 169.

Heydt, Jost, leads immigrants south, 49.

"Highland Trail," 17, 20.

Hit or Miss (canal boat), 140.

Hockaday and Liggett establish stage line to Great Salt Lake, 189.

Holliday, Ben, and Overland Route, 190.

Horses, pack, 21; in "Bonnyclabber Country," 86.

Hough, Emerson, The Passing of the Frontier, cited, 189 (note).

Houghton, Douglass, discovers copper in Michigan, 165.

Hudson River, Washington foresees joining to Great Lakes, 8; pathway along, 15; see also Erie Canal.