W.

Walk-in-the-Water (steamboat), 132, 156, 167, 172.

"Warrior's Path," 19, 20.

Washington (D. C.), Baily at, 84, 85-86.

Washington, first double-decked steamboat, 79, 175.

Washington, Fort, 68.

Washington, George, vision of inland navigation, 4 et seq., 193; doctrine of expansion, 6; journey to West, 7-9; letter to Harrison, 10, 53, 117, 127; Journal, 10; and river improvement, 31; president of Potomac Company, 32; and army roads, 50; and crop rotation, 85; prophecy regarding millstones, 87-88; Rumsey and, 100-101, 105-106.

Watauga, Fort, 19.

Waters, Dr., of New Madrid, builds schooner, 95.

Watson, Elkanah, of New York, 31, 33, 36, 37, 54.

Wayne, Anthony, 67.

Webster, Pelatiah, and settlement of Northwest, 3.

Weiser, Conrad, 26.

Welch, Sylvester, 139.

Welland Canal, 12, 155, 160, 168, 169.

Western Engineer (steamboat), 186.

Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, 31, 36-37.

Western Maryland Railway, 18.

Westfield River, Old Bay Path along, 16.

Westover, stagecoach driver, 122-123.

Wheeling, western terminus of Cumberland Road, 119.

White, of Pennsylvania, 31, 40, 43.

Wickham, Nathan, 49.

Wilderness Road, 47, 50.

Winchester (Va.), trail from, 18.

Wisconsin, development of, 164.

Woodworth, Samuel, The Hunters of Kentucky, 62-63; The Old Oaken Bucket, 62.