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Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West: Index

Making the White Man's West: Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

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Index


Aarim-Heriot, Najia, 236, 238

Aborigines. See American Indians

Adams, John Quincy, 43

Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 58

Adams, William L., 135

Africa, xiii, 11, 34, 41, 129, 135

African Americans, xiii, xvi, xvii, xxiv, 4–5, 7, 8, 9–10, 14, 29, 36, 39–44, 53, 54, 79, 83, 87, 98, 102, 123–24, 127–37, 143, 144–46, 152, 153, 167, 170–73, 179, 182, 210, 211, 212, 217, 228, 236, 238, 247, 250, 251–53, 255, 256–57, 258, 259; in Texas, 222–27

African American exclusion efforts, 129–37, 258

Africans, 15, 53, 70, 76, 180, 182

Agassiz, Louis, 17–18, 46

agrarian myth, 152

agriculture, 30, 32, 35, 44, 54, 86, 87, 101, 135, 160, 164, 199

Alabama (state of), 44, 144

Alamo (San Antonio, TX), 5

Alder, Douglas Dexter, 204

Alexander II, Czar of Russia, 163

Alexandria, Egypt, 199

Almaguer, Tomás, 106, 234

Alpine (race), 13. See also Eastern Europeans

Alpine, Texas, 221

Alta California (San Francisco), 239

Amador County, California, 238–39

American: The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows (Linderman), 109–11

American Colonization Society, 42, 144

American identity, x

American Indians, ix, x, xi, xii, xvi, xxiv, xxv, 3, 6, 8, 11, 14–17, 19–20, 29–30, 32, 36, 39, 42, 43, 52, 53, 66, 79, 81, 89, 95, 98, 100, 103, 106–8, 112, 114, 116, 123–24, 127–37, 152, 165, 182–83, 210; in Texas, 210–16, 217, 224, 227, 236, 240, 251–52, 255, 256, 258, 260; in California, 227–32. See also names of specific groups

American Indians as “real” Americans, 96, 109, 111, 114

“American school” of anthropology, 17

American Protective Association, 105

American River (CA), 239

Americas, 11

Anaheim, California, 87

Anderson, Gary Clayton, 5, 211–12

Anglo Americans, ix, xiv, xvi, xxiii–xxv, 3–4, 7–10, 19–20, 35, 38, 46, 51, 52, 54, 59, 61–62, 65, 66, 69, 72–74, 77, 78, 79, 89, 96, 105, 106, 107, 111, 116, 123, 127, 140, 143, 145, 152, 165, 170, 199, 202, 209, 210, 211, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 226, 227, 228, 231, 232, 234, 235, 236, 238, 248, 254, 255. See also white, Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxons, x, xxiii, xxiv, 13, 19, 66, 72–73, 75, 76, 80, 88, 101, 106, 113, 166, 169, 170, 211. See also white, Anglo Americans, Saxons

Anglo-Saxons and Others (Gorren), 73

anti-government groups, xiii

anti-slavery movement. See Slavery

Antlers Hotel (Colorado Springs), 60

Antoine “Tonish,” 36–38

Antwerp, Belgium, 158

Apaches (American Indian Group), 219

Applegate, Jesse, 131

Arabia, 38

aridity, 34, 38–39, 45, 116, 151, 253. See also climate

Arizona (State and Territory of), xi, 13, 59, 259–60

Arizona Senate Bill 1070, xi, xiv, 259

Arizona v. United States (legal case), 260

Arkansas River valley, 37, 168

Arkansas (State and Territory of), 125

Armenian Genocide, 249

Armenians, xxiv, 13, 248–52. See also Southern Europeans, immigrants

Articles of Confederation (US), 33, 125

Arvada, Colorado, 261

Aryanism, xiii

Aryan Nations, xiii

Aryans, xiii–xiv, 77, 254. See also Anglo-Americans, Anglo-Saxons

Asia, 11, 77

Asians, ix, xi, xii, xvii, xxiv–xxv, 3, 6, 8, 10, 89, 127, 133, 173, 248, 250, 258, 259. See also Chinese and Japanese

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (ATS&F), 60, 156, 164, 170

Atherton, Gertrude, 113

Austin, Texas, 219, 225

Australia, 166

Australians, 233

Austria, 187

Austrians, 112, 113

Bandini, Juan, 52, 53, 69

Bandini, Refugio [Refugia], 53

“Bandit war” (1915), 221–22

Barbour, George, 232

Barkan, Elliot Robert, 13

Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), 43

Battle of New Orleans (1815), 43

Baylor, John R., 213–14, 218

Beadle, John Hanson, 68, 69, 84, 201–2

Beard, Daniel Carter, 114

Bedouins, 39, 197

Bell, John, 43

Bell, William A., 151–52, 166–68

Benton, Thomas Hart, 139

Bent’s Fort (CO), 55

Berlin (City in Modern Germany), 187

Berreyesa family, 234

Bible (the), 15, 82, 181

Big Rock (Chippewa), 107

bilious disease. See malaria

Billings, Frederick, 161

bio-power (concept of), 45

Bird, Isabella, 57, 80–81

Bisbee, Arizona, 210

bison, 215, 216

black. See African Americans

blackness, 16, 228, 233

Blake, A. Sterne, 116

blood, x, 182

bloodshed. See violence

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 14–15

boarding Schools, 100–101

Boas, Franz, 249

Boley, Brian K. “Red,” 221

Book of Mormon (Smith), 182–83, 187, 191, 192

Boone, Daniel, 114

boosters. See promoters

Bose, Jean, 191

Boston, Massachusetts, 9, 61, 103, 104, 106, 254

Boston Tea Party, 115

Boxer Rebellion (1900), 102

Bradley, Glenn Danford, 164

Branagan, Thomas, 41

Brantlinger, Patrick, 74

Brazos River, 213, 214, 215

Bremen (city in modern Germany), 158

Bremer, Fredericka, 159

Brewer, Jan, xi

Bridge, Norman, 56

British Government, 203–4

Brown, Richard Maxwell, 209

Brownsville, Texas, 218–19, 221, 226

Buchanan, James, 135

Buffalo Soldiers, 224–27. See also US Army

Burlingame Treaty (1868), 129

Burnett, Peter, 129–30, 131, 132, 137, 146, 230

Bush, Asahel, 134–35

Butler, Richard G., xiii

Butte and Boston Smelter (MT), 112

Butte, Montana, xvi, 112–13, 116

Caddos (American Indian Group), 213, 214

Calaveras County, California, 233

California (state of), xv, 3, 7, 8, 10, 45, 51–57, 59, 60, 62, 65, 67–68, 75–77, 79, 84, 87, 89, 103–5, 116, 124, 126, 131, 135, 137, 143–45, 155, 156, 210, 217, 252, 253, 257, 259, 260; violence in, 227–40

California and slavery debate, 127, 128, 129

California Compromise (1850), 138

California Constitutional Convention (1849), 128

California for Health, Pleasure, and Residence (Nordhoff), 83–84

Californians, 106, 253–54

California Proposition 187, 259–60. See also “Save Our State” campaign

California state legislature, 231, 232

Californio (Hispanic Californian), xxv, 3, 8, 52, 67–68, 103, 106, 227, 232–35

Cameron County, Texas, 221

Camp Fire Girls, 115

Canada, 77, 131, 135, 163, 166, 170

Cannon, George O., 185

capitalism, 45, 106, 151–52, 153

Cardis, Louis, 219

Caribbean, 76

Carlisle, Pennsylvania. See boarding schools

Carpentier, Horace, 234–35

Carranza, Venustiano, 221, 222

Cartozian, Tatos O., 248–50, 251, 252

Cascade Mountains, 156

Castle Garden, New York, 83, 165, 254

Catholic Church, xii, xvi, 69, 190, 197

Catholicism, xvi, 13, 158, 181, 185, 188, 191, 192, 197, 198, 211

Caucasian, xvi, xxiv, 15, 19, 133. See also Anglo Saxon, white

Caucasus Mountains (Russia), 15

Celts, x, xvi, xxiii, 13, 89

Central City, Colorado, 45

Central Pacific Railroad, 155, 172

Cherokees (American Indian Group), 16, 39, 43, 233

Cheyenne Mountain Club (Colorado Springs), 60

Cheyennes (American Indian Group), 8, 216

Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad, 173–74

Chileans, 232

Chillicothe, Ohio, 96

Chillicothe Leader, 100

China, 155, 235

Chinatown (San Francisco, CA), 6

Chinese and Chinese Americans, xxv, 3, 10, 53, 79, 84, 88–89, 102–6, 116, 129, 130, 137, 153, 202, 210, 233, 235–40, 255, 258

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), 89, 173, 204, 240, 258

Chinese labor, 129

Chippewas (American Indian Group), 108–9, 116

Christiania (now Oslo, Norway), 158

Christianity, 182–83, 184, 194, 248. See also Catholicism, Mormon Church, Protestantism

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, xiii, xiv, 8, 168, 179–205. See also Mormon Church

citizenship, xii, xxiv, 6, 10, 13–14, 31, 106, 143, 153, 233, 234, 247, 248–52, 261

Citizenship Act of 1790, 14, 67, 249

civilization (as a characteristic of whiteness), 17, 31, 35, 38, 66, 76, 82, 98, 170, 186, 197, 255

Civil Rights Movement, xiii

Civil War (US), 5, 56, 124, 127, 139, 142, 145, 153, 165, 171, 213, 214, 215, 216, 219, 223, 247

Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith (“Dame Shirley”), 55–56

Clark, George Rogers, 83

Clark, Hiram, 185

Clay, Henry, 83

cleanliness (as a characteristic of whiteness), 196

Clear Fork (of the Brazos River), 215

Clear Lake, California, 230

climate (influence on race), xiv, 6, 15–20, 34–35, 38–39, 51–62, 65–70, 73–78, 116, 133, 135, 136, 140–42, 159–60, 163, 168, 172, 190, 201, 211, 253. See also aridity

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, 116

Coke, John S., 249

Collier, John, 109

Colombia, 105

colonialism. See imperialism

colonization: of African Americans, 39–42, 144–46, 170–73; by railroads, 152–55, 157–59, 160–73

Colonization Council, 144

Coloradans, 82, 115

Colorado (State and Territory of), 57–58, 60–62, 83, 101–2, 144, 155, 161, 164–70, 257

Colorado County, Texas, 217, 223

Colorado River (Texas), 213

Colorado Springs, Colorado, 58, 60, 81–82, 166–70

Colorado Springs and Manitou (Dunbar), 170

Colton, Walter, 56, 127

Columbia, California, 239

Comanchería, 215–16

Comanches (American Indian group), 5, 211, 214–16

Commerce of the Prairies (Gregg), 68

Committee on Indian Affairs, 43

Committee on Public Lands, 42

Communalism, 200

communism, 70

Company D (Texas Rangers), 221

Comstock (Wasco), 130

Comstock affair, 130, 132

Concho River (TX), 225

Confederate Army, 4–5, 214, 219, 223

Confederate States of America, 143, 144, 219, 224

Connecticut, 135, 164

consumption. See tuberculosis

Cooke, Jay, 152, 160, 163

Cool, Paul, 220

coolie, 105, 235. See also Chinese

Cooper, James Fenimore

Corfu (Greek island), 199

Cornish, 112

Cortina, Juan, 218–19

cotton, 44, 140, 144, 224, 226

Cotton Belt, 224. See also South

Crania Aegyptiaca (Morton), 18

Crania Americana (Morton), 18

Creeks (American Indian Group), 36, 43

Crees (American Indian Group), 108–9, 116

Creole, 38

Crescent City, California, 230

Crockett, David, 210

Crows (American Indian Group), 109–10

Cucharas, Colorado, 101

Cuellar, José, 226

Cunningham, Roseline, 171

Dakota Territory, xi, xiv, xv, 7, 155, 160, 162, 257

“Dame Shirley.” See Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith

Dana, Richard Henry, 52, 53, 62, 65, 67, 68, 69, 75, 84, 217, 234

Danes, 155, 160, 174, 191, 202

Darwin, Charles, 70, 72, 74

Darwinism. See evolution

Davenport, Charles Benedict, 79, 83, 248

Davis, Edmund J., 215

Davis, Edward Everett, 226

Davis, Gray, 260

Davis, Jefferson, 172

Davis, Joseph, 172

Dawes Allotment Act (1887), 14, 101

Day Child (Cree and Chippewa), 109

Deady, Matthew P., 136

Deep South. See South

degeneration. See Racial Degeneration

Delawares (American Indian Group), 183, 214

De León, Arnoldo, 217, 224

Del Monte Hotel (Monterey, CA), 60

Deloria, Philip, 114–15

Del Valle Family, 71

democracy (as a characteristic of whiteness), 72, 80, 106, 166, 187, 236, 254

Democratic Party, 126, 127, 135, 136, 139, 223

Denmark, 162, 181

Denver, Colorado, 57, 61–62, 82, 165, 210, 240, 261

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGWRR), 57, 60, 61, 83, 151, 164, 165, 166, 167, 170, 254

Descent of Man (Darwin), 74

developers. See promoters

Deverell, William, xv, 106

“Digger” Indians, 228

direct revelation (Mormon belief in), 180, 185, 191

disfranchised, xii, 143–44, 171

Division of the Missouri (US Army), 215

Dix, John Adams, 133

Dixon, Roland B., 249

Double Springs, California, 233

Douglas, Stephen, 134, 138

Dred Scott Case (1857), 135, 138

Dryer, Thomas, 137

dryland farming. See agriculture, farming

dugout, 202

dumping ground (West as a racial), 30, 39–46, 51

Dunbar, Simeon Mrs., 170

Dutch, 196. See also Holland

East (US Region) xi, xii, xvii, 3, 9–10, 20, 39, 45, 79, 83, 85–86, 89, 96, 103, 165, 167, 169, 212, 254, 255

Eastern Europe, 155

Eastern Europeans, xi, xii, xvi, xxiv, 3, 10, 59, 95, 156, 210, 248. See also immigrants; specific ethnic groups

East Indians, 248–50

Eastman, James G., 88

Eaton, Edith Maude (Sui Sin Fah), 102

Ein Ruf aus der Wuste (A Call from the Desert, Hyde), 187

El Dorado County, California, 230, 239

Eleventh Infantry (US Army), 216

Elleson, James, 231

Ellis Island, New York, 165, 254

Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 36

El Paso, Texas, 219

embryology, 72

England, xxiii, 70, 155, 161, 166, 168, 169, 170, 173, 180, 181, 186, 187, 188, 192, 258

Engle-Americans. See Anglo-Americans

Englishmen, xvi, xxiii, 12, 61, 72–73, 88, 151, 155, 156, 158, 161, 166–69, 173–74, 187, 189, 199, 257

Erath, George, 213

“Essay on the Causes of Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species” (Smith), 16

eugenics, 9, 70, 78–79, 83–85, 113, 248. See also sterilization

Euro-American. See Anglo-Americans

Europe, 12, 14, 20, 36, 77, 187, 195, 202, 248, 250, 254

Europeans, 173, 210, 233, 248, 255, 256. See also Eastern Europeans, Southern Europeans, Northern Europeans

Evans, John, 109

Everybody’s, 87

evolution (Theory of), 70–76

Exodusters, 144–46, 171, 257

exoticism, xv, xvii, 6, 89

expansionism, 29, 34, 79, 124–25, 153, 210, 252

extinction discourse, 74–75, 186, 229–30. See also vanishing Indians

Extra Legal Violence. See vigilantism, violence

farmers, 32–33, 45–46, 82, 154, 158–59, 162–64, 165, 167, 168, 171–73, 256–57. See also yeoman farmers

farming. See agriculture

Federal Government, 81, 153, 212, 213, 221–22, 224, 230, 231–32, 252, 260. See also US Government

federalists, 31

femininity, 53, 69, 71, 112, 115, 180, 196, 234, 237, 250

Ferguson, James, 221

Filipinos, 105, 249–50

Finland, 187

fire-eaters, 138–39

Fiske, John, 72–73

Fitzpatrick, Thomas, 45

Flathead Lake (MT), 98

Flatheads (American Indian Group), 98

Florida, 67, 78, 135

Foley, Neil, 226

Ford, Nathaniel, 134

foreigners. See immigrant

Foreign Miner’s Tax, 232–33, 239–40

Fort Belknap, Texas, 214

Fort Bliss, Texas, 215

Fort Concho, Texas, 215, 224, 225

Fort Clark, Texas, 215

Fort Davis, Texas, 215

Fort Duncan, Texas, 215

Fort Gibson (Indian Territory), 36, 38

Fort Griffin, Texas, 215

Fort McKavett, Texas, 215, 224

Fort Richardson, Texas, 215

Fort Stockton, 215

Forty-niners, 84. See also Gold Rush

Foucault, Michel, 45

Fountain Colony. See Colorado Springs

Founding Fathers (the)

Fourteenth Amendment (1868), xxiv, 14, 238

Fourth Cavalry (US), 216

France, 29, 67, 87, 181, 191

Francis, Samuel, 192–93, 195

Franklin, Benjamin, 11–12

Frazier, Ian, 171

freedom (as a characteristic of Whiteness), x, 14, 33, 69, 72, 180, 187, 248

free labor, 7, 125–27, 128, 133, 136, 139, 142

Freemen (right-wing group), xiii

free soil, 125–28, 132, 135, 138

Frémont, John C., 55

French, x, 12, 77, 80, 88, 158, 167, 170, 180, 191, 192

French Polynesia, 184. See also Tahiti, Tubuai

frontier, xiv, 78, 80, 85, 104, 114, 140, 154, 165, 211, 214–15, 224, 254

frontiersman, x, 82–83, 112, 224

Front Range (of the Rocky Mountains), 165, 167

Fuhrman, Mark, xiii

Gainesville, Texas, 213

Gates, Horatio, 42

Gates, Paul Wallace, 158

Gazette of the United States, 31

Genesis (book of the Bible), 16, 17

Genoa (city in modern Italy), 189

Gente de razon (people of reason), 233–34

Gente sin razon (people without reason), 233–34

gentiles (Mormon name for non-Mormons), 202

Gentleman’s Agreement, 248

Georgia (state of), 44, 144

German Mission, 187–88, 191

Germans, xvi, xxiii, xxiv, 12, 59, 72, 86–87, 88, 104, 141–42, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161, 163, 167, 170, 173, 174, 180, 187, 188, 199, 256, 257

Germany, 87, 159

Gilded Age (the), 60, 79

Gilded Age (Twain and Warner), 76

Gilpin, William, 82

Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 60, 61

Gliddon, George, 17

Goes-together (Crow), 99

Goetzmann, William, 35

Golden Gate (CA), x

“Gold Mountain,” 235–37

Gold Rush (California), 127, 131, 227, 228, 229, 232, 233, 234, 235–40. See also forty-niners

Google, xiv

Gordon, Linda, xvi, 13

Gorren, Aline, 73

Goshen, 174

Gothenburg, Sweden, 158

Grand Army of the Republic, 163

Grant, Madison, 113, 248

Grant, Ulysses S., 144, 215, 216

Grant County, New Mexico, 220

Greasers (derogatory term for Hispanics), 101–2

Great American Desert, 34–35, 39, 45–46, 216

Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (Gordon), xvi

Great Britain, 131, 181. See also England

Great Depression (1930s), 251

Great Plains (the), ix, xiv, 7, 34–36, 38, 45, 77, 153, 154, 156, 172, 179, 188, 215–16, 254, 256, 259

Great Salt Lake City, Utah. See Salt Lake City, Utah

Great West (Chicago Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad), 173

Greece, 76, 197

Greek Orthodox, 197, 198

Greeks, xxiv, 13, 196, 198. See also Southern Europeans, immigrants

Greeley, Horace, 142

Gregg, Josiah, 55, 68

Grierson, Benjamin, 225

Gross, Ariela J., xvi

Grouard, Benjamin Franklin, 184

Guadalupe Salt Lakes (TX), 219

Guandong Province (China), 235

Hahn, Steven, 143–44

Hämäläinen, Pekka, 216

Hamburg (city in modern Germany), 158, 187

Hampton, Virginia. See boarding schools

Hanks, Knowlton F., 184

Harris, Thomas, 145

Harvard, 96

Harve, France, 158

Harve, Montana, 108, 109

Hawaii, 181, 184–86. See also Pacific Islands

Hawaiians, 54, 137, 185–86

Hayden, Ferdinand V., 88

Hayden Lake (ID), xiii

Hayes, Rutherford B., 73

health hesorts. See sanitariums

health Seekers, 60–62, 65, 168, 170

Hebrews, 13. See also Eastern Europeans, Jews

Helena, Montana, 108

Helena and Victor Mining Company (MT), 116

Helper, Hinton Rowan, 228, 229–30

Henry, Boston, 224

Henry, Patrick, 69

Hibbard, George, 161–62, 163

Hickman, Willianna, 145

Hidalgo County, Texas, 221

Hill, W. R., 145

Hill City, Kansas, 145

Hispanic Americans, ix, xi, xii, xvii, xxiii, xxiv–xxv, 3, 13, 20, 52, 66–69, 79, 89, 95, 100, 101, 103, 116, 143, 209, 210, 226, 227, 232–35, 236, 238, 240, 247, 253, 255, 258, 259. See also Californios, Mexican Americans, Tejanos

Hitler, Adolf, 250–51

Hofstadter, Richard, 70

Holand, Hjalmar Rued, 163

Holland, 161, 196. See also Dutch

Holt, Michael F., 126

Holy City, 251

Holy Land (the), 195, 196, 197, 199. See also Palestine; the Levant

homeland (West as White Racial Homeland), xiii, 7, 66–67, 89, 96, 104–6, 116, 146, 179. See also Refuge

Homestead Act (1862), 124, 139, 143, 153, 162–63

Honolulu, Hawaii, 185

Hoopa Valley (CA), 232

Hoppin, M. J., 203

horses, 216

Houston, Sam, 210

Houston, Texas, 226

Howard, Charles, 219–20

Howbert, Irving, 165

Howe, Joseph W., 58

Howell, Kenneth W., 223

Hualapais (American Indian Group), 101

Hubbard, Richard, 220

Humboldt County, California, 230–31

Hunt, Alexander C., 165, 167–68

Huntington, Collis P., 172

Hyde, Orson, 186, 187

Idaho (State and Territory of), xiii, 160, 210, 259

Idaho Springs (CO), 45

Iddings, Lewis Morris, 60

Ignatiev, Noel, xxiv, 12

illegal aliens, xii

Illinois (State and Territory of), 125, 131, 157–59

Illinois Central Railroad, 154, 157–59, 162, 256

immigrants, xi, xvi, xvii, xxiv, 3, 7–8, 9–10, 12, 45, 59, 79, 83–88, 90, 95, 103, 104–6, 109, 111–13, 116, 133, 136, 141, 143–46, 155–56, 157–60, 161–66, 173, 180, 181, 199, 201, 202, 235–37, 248–52, 255. See also Northern Europeans, Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, Chinese

immigration, 79, 87, 96, 98, 155, 203, 247, 260; (restrictions on), 204, 248. See also Chinese Exclusion Act, Page Law

Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act), 204, 247

imperialism, 32, 54, 66, 72–73, 77–78, 104–5, 235, 253

Independence, Missouri, 183

Indiana (State and Territory of), 125

Indian agents, 214, 215

Indian removal, 42–44, 252

Indian reservations, xi, 213, 216, 231–32, 255

Indian Territory, 36, 42, 46, 124, 214, 252. See also Oklahoma

Individualism, x, 10

industrial society, 6, 9, 59–60, 78–79, 95–96, 98, 112–14, 116, 142, 166

Industrial Workers of the World (Union), 210

infanticide, 74

intelligence (as a characteristic of Whiteness), 83–84, 85, 87, 199, 202

invalids. See health Seekers

Iowa, 161

Ireland, 155

Irish, xvi, xxiii, 12–13, 88, 112, 155, 156, 157, 167, 170, 174, 187, 257

irrigation, 200

Irving, Washington, 36–38, 44, 46, 51, 77, 145

Israel, 182, 185, 186, 190, 198

Israelites, 182, 185, 186

Italian Mission, 188–94, 258

Italians, xvi, 12, 59, 87, 102, 104, 112, 113, 115, 155, 156, 188. See also Southern Europeans

Italy, 67, 76, 87, 188–94, 196, 197, 199

Jack County, Texas, 214

Jacksboro, Texas, 213

Jacksboro Rangers, 213–14

Jackson, Andrew, 43–44, 252

Jackson, California, 239

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 67–68, 81–82, 156, 255, 256

Jackson, John, 224

Jacobson, Matthew Frye, xxiv, 12–13

Jansen, Cornelius, 164

Japanese and Japanese Americans, xxv, 89, 248, 249–50, 258

Japhet, 128

jaundice, 54

Jefferson, Thomas, 11, 30, 32–33, 39–40, 42, 123, 127, 139, 152–53, 251

Jefferson Administration, 39

Jerusalem, 183, 197–98

Jews, 13, 182, 194. See also Hebrews, Eastern Europeans, Israelites

Jim Crow legislation, 5, 9, 171, 226, 227. See also segregation

Johnson, Andrew, 139

Johnson, Susan, 232

Johnson-Reed Act, 247. See Immigration Act of 1924

Jones, John B., 220

Jordan, David Starr, 75, 79, 84

Jordan, Winthrop, 34

Journey through Texas (Olmsted), 140

Journey to Great Salt Lake City (Remy), 180

Kaczynski, Ted, xiii

Kamehameha the Fifth, King, 185

Kanakas. See Hawaiians

Kansas (State and Territory of), 134, 144–45, 156, 161, 164, 171, 173, 183, 257

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), 134, 138

Kansas Pacific Railroad, 161, 165–67, 172, 257

Kaufman, Herbert, 87

Kelsey, Andrew, 230

Kentucky, 130, 136

Kerber, Charles, 219–20

Kickapoos (American Indian Group), 214

Kimball, Heber C., 186

Kimball, Spencer, xiii

King Cotton, 44. See also Cotton

King Ranch (TX), 221

Kingsley, Charles, 168

Kingsley, Rose Georgina, 57

Kinney, John, 220

Kiowas (American Indian Group), 211, 214, 215, 216, 217

Ku Klux Klan, 3, 223

Kwahada-Kotsoteka Comanche (American Indian Group), 216

labor, 228–29, 236, 238

labor unions, 236

Lake Erie, 36

Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company, 161

Lakin, D.L., 164

Lakotas (American Indian Group), 8, 256

Laman, 183

Lamanite mission, 183

Lamanites, 183–86, 194. See also American Indians

Lampson, Mrs. Otis Floyd, 249

Lanai (Hawaiian island), 185

Lancashire, England, 186

Land and Emigration (Northern Pacific Railroad), 160

Land Law (1851), 234

Land of Gold (Helper), 228

Land of Sunshine (Lummis), 3, 56, 69–70, 75–77, 100, 102, 103, 105

Lane, Joseph, 136

Langston, Oklahoma, 145

Lanstrum, Oscar, 108

Laredo, Texas, 221, 226

Lawrence, A.B., 211

Lawrence, Kansas, 100

laziness, of non-white peoples, 52, 65, 67–68, 86, 108; of whites due to slavery, 140–42, 211, 217, 253

Lee family, 215

Lehi, 183, 185

Levant, 196. See also the Holy Land; Palestine

Liberia, 42, 144

Life in California (Robinson), 234

Limerick, Patricia Nelson, xi

Lincoln, Abraham, 83, 124, 138–39

Lincoln County War (NM), 220

Linderman, Frank Bird, xvi, 6–7, 8, 95–96, 98–100, 107–17, 255

Linnaeus, Carolus, 14

Linn County, Oregon, 134

“Little London.” See Colorado Springs

Liverpool, United Kingdom, 158, 187

Llano Estacado, 216

London (UK), 257

London Missionary School, 184

Lone Star State. See Texas

Long, John W., 3–4

Long, Stephen Harriman, 35, 45, 51, 54, 216

Longs Peak (CO)

Loomis, John S., 161

López, Ian Haney, 250

Los Angeles (CA), xii, xiii, 3, 59, 87, 88, 96, 102, 103, 104, 106, 235

Los Angeles County, California, 259–60

Los Angeles Times, 96, 103, 259–60

Louisiana, 171

Louisiana Purchase, 7, 29–31, 39, 125

Louisiana Territory, 17, 20, 29–34, 41, 42, 125, 251

Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railroad, 172, 257

Lovoll, Odd S., 160

Lubbock, Francis, 214

Luebke, Frederick C., 155

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, xxiv, 3–4, 6–8, 56, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 75–77, 78, 85, 95–98, 100–107, 115–17, 253–54, 255, 256

Lyford, Texas, 221

Mace, William, 225

MacKenzie, Ranald, 216

Magoffin, Susan Shelby, 55

Mahoney, Roger M., xii

Maine (State of), 125

Malan, John D., 192–93

malaria, 54, 55, 78, 172

Malay, 15. See also Asian

Malmborg, Oscar, 158–59

Malthus, Thomas, 72

Manifest Destiny, x, 19–20, 45, 66, 73

Manitou Springs, Colorado, 58, 60

Manney, William, 127

“Man on the Street” (definition of whiteness), xv, 249–50

Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity (Wrobel and Steiner), xiv

“Mark of Cain,” xiii, 182, 258

Marsh, Bryan, 225

Marshall, Albert, 224

Marshall, James, 227

Marvin, James, 100

Marxism, 166

masculinity, 52, 69, 78, 96, 114, 187, 234, 240. See also racial vigor

Masons (fraternal organization), 249

Massachusetts (State of), 31, 59, 132, 135

Mauss, Armand, 184

Mayer, George, 188

McAllen, James B., 222

McCabe, Edwin, 145

McCarthy, David, 225

McCarthy, Tom, 225

McCarver, M. M., 128

McClure’s Magazine, 58

McGinnis, George, 172

McKee, Redick, 232

Meade, Edwin R., 88

Mediterranean (race), 13. See also Southern Europeans, Italians

Meinig, Donald W., 125–26

Mellen, Mary Lincoln, 165

Menard, Texas, 224

Mendocino County, California, 230

Mendocino War, 230–31

Mennonites, 7, 155, 156, 163–64, 172, 173, 257

Mestizo (person of mixed Hispanic and Indian blood), 233

Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, xii

Mexican Americans, xxv, 68, 219, 222. See also Hispanic, Tejano, Californio

Mexican-American War (1846–48), 45, 126, 132, 158, 221, 247

Mexican Revolution, 212, 221–22

Mexicans, xxv, 67, 211, 215, 218, 219, 232, 233

Mexico, xxiv, 34, 67, 68, 126, 127, 132, 211, 214, 217, 219, 221–22, 224, 235

Mid-Atlantic (US region), 130

Middle East, 16, 179, 258

Midwest (US region), 130, 135

Milan (City in Modern Italy), 197

Mile-High City. See Denver, Colorado

Millennial Star (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), 187, 191

mining camps, xvi. See also Butte, Montana, Gold Rush

mining industry, 112, 129, 136, 151, 164–65, 219, 227–29, 238–39

Minnesota, xiv, 7, 155, 159, 160, 162, 257

Minnesota Board of Immigration, 159

miscegenation, 31, 34, 36–38, 53–54, 78, 84, 137, 217, 237

missionaries, 16, 19, 182–95, 258. See also Italian Mission, Mormon Church

mission Indians, 106

Mississippi (state of), 44, 138, 139, 144

Mississippi Delta, 172, 257

Mississippi River, 31, 43, 45, 78, 125, 251

Mississippi River Valley, 55

Missouri (State and Territory of), 86–87, 125–26, 130, 134, 136, 138, 139, 172, 200

Missouri Compromise (1820), 125

Miwoks (American Indian Group), 230

Money, Edward, 169–70

monogenesis (Theory of), 15–17, 46, 65. See also polygenesis, race science

Monroe, James, 34, 42

Montana (State and Territory of), xiii, 96, 98, 100, 108–16, 155, 160

Montana Adventure (Linderman), 98

Montanans, 108

Monterey (CA), 56, 60

Montezuma Hotel (Las Vegas, NM), 60

Montgomery, Isaiah T., 172

Mormon Bar (CA), 239

Mormon Church, xiii, xiv, 8, 179–205. See also the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Mormon Priesthood, xiii

Mormons, 79, 88, 168, 179–205, 257–58; as a Chosen People of God, 182

Morris, Gouverneur, 31

Morrison, Toni, xxv

Morton, Samuel George, 17–18

Moss, Henry, 16

Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 172

Mount Brigham, 191, 193

Mount Shasta (CA), 57

Muir, John, 56–57

mulattos, 54. See also miscegenation

Murphy, Patrick, 213, 214

Murray, Charles, 224

Murrieta, Joaquin, 233

Muslims, 196–98

Myers, Henry L., 108–9, 110, 113

mythmakers, 109

mythology (of white man’s west), xii, xiii, 3–4, 10–11

Narrow Gauge Railroads, 164

Nation, 59

National Land Company, 161

Native Americans. See American Indians; names of specific groups

nativism, 250. See also immigration

Navajos (American Indian Group), 101

Navoo, Illinois, 186. See also Salt Lake City

Nazism, xii

Neal, David, 157–58

Nebraska (State and Territory of), 138, 155

negro. See African American

Neighbors, Robert, 213, 214

neo-natives, 95

Nephi, 183

Nephites, 183

Neu Branfels, Texas, 142

Nevada (State and Territory of), 155, 156, 259

New England (US region), 75, 101, 103, 130, 170

New Hampshire, 135

New Jersey, 135

New Jerusalem (Mormons), 179. See also Salt Lake City

New Mexico (State and Territory of), 9, 55, 60, 210, 259

New Orleans, 31, 61, 102

new stock immigrants. See immigrants, Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans

New Testament (of the Bible), 182

New Tracks in North America (Bell), 151

New York (State of), 59, 135, 181

New York Century, 230

New York City, 9, 13, 61, 83–84, 103, 106, 165, 254

New York Tribune, 127

New Zealand, 166, 184

new Zion, 186, 187. See also Salt Lake City

Nicodemus, Kansas, 145, 171

Noah, 128

Nordhoff, Charles, 83–85, 254

Nordic peoples, xiii, 13, 79. See also Northern Europeans, Anglo-Saxons

Norias, Texas, 221–22

North (US Region), 41, 45, 124, 127

North Dakota, xv, 10, 155, 156, 259. See also Dakota Territory

Northeast (US Region), 139. See also East

Northern California, 229. See also California

northerners, 132, 138, 139, 140

Northern Europe, 155, 160, 164, 179, 180, 181, 188, 195, 254, 258. See also England, Germany, Scandinavia

Northern Europeans, xv, xxiv, 7–9, 10, 46, 51, 66, 79, 152–58, 161, 162, 173, 180, 186, 194, 195, 199, 202, 204, 247, 253, 255, 257. See also specific ethnic groups; immigrants

Northern Pacific Land Committee, 154–55, 160, 161, 162, 257

Northern Pacific Railroad, 152, 155, 156, 160–64, 170, 257

North Star State. See Minnesota

Northwest (US Region)

Northwest Ordinance, 33, 125, 126–27

“Northwest Territorial Imperative,” xiii

Northwest Territory (Old), 33, 125, 130, 139

Norway, 158–59, 162, 181

Norwegians, xv, 155, 156, 157, 160, 163, 173, 174, 257. See also Northern Europeans, Scandinavians, Swedes

Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 33, 40

Nott, Josiah, 17–19, 54

Oakland, California, 235

Obama, Barack, xi

Oceania. See Pacific Islands

Ohio River, 33, 125

Ohio River Valley, 32

Oklahoma (State of), 87, 144, 164, 173, 257. See also Indian Territory

Old Northwest (US Region), 33

Old Testament (of the Bible), 182

Old World. See Europe

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 69, 86, 140–42

Omahas (American Indian Group), 54

On a Passing Frontier (Linderman), 112

opium, 235, 237

Orange County, California, 260

Oregon (State and Territory of), xxiii, 7, 79, 127, 130–36, 142, 144, 145, 156, 258

Oregon, Provisional Government, 130, 131

Oregon Argus, 135

Oregon Constitutional Convention, 136–37

Oregon Donation Land Law (1850), 134

Oregonian (The), 137

Oregonians, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 137

Oregon Statesman, 135, 136

Oriental, 15. See also Asian, Chinese, Japanese

Origin of the Species (Darwin), 70, 72

Osages (American Indian Group), 36

O’Sullivan, John, 19

Outlaws, 214, 219, 220, 221–22, 224

Out West. See Land of Sunshine

Pacific Coast (US Region), x, xiv, 45, 87, 127, 136, 259

Pacific Islanders, 8, 179, 181, 184–86, 199. See also Hawaiians

Pacific Islands, 180, 258. See also Hawaii, Tahiti

Pacific Ocean, 53, 132, 235

Pacific Slope. See Pacific Coast

Pacifism, 163

Page, Horace F., 238

Page, John, 42

Page Law (1875), 238, 240, 248

Palestine, 198. See also Holy Land, Levant

Palestine tourists, 195–99

Palmer, William Jackson, 57, 165, 167, 254

Palo Duro Canyon (TX), 216

Panama, 105

paramilitary. See Texas Rangers; vigilantism

Parker, Cynthia Ann, 5

Parker, Quanah (Comanche), 5, 215, 216

Parkman, Francis, 38

Paseños, 219–20. See also Hispanic Americans, Tejanos

Passing of the Great Race (Grant), 113

paternalism, 101

patriarchy, 187

Pease River (Battle of, 1860), 5

Pennsylvania, 12, 31, 59, 126, 135

Peralta family, 234–35

Peterson, Nils, 221

Pfaelzer, Mariana R., 260

Philadelphia, 61

phthisis, 54. See tuberculosis

Piedmont (region of Italy), 189–190

Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 34–35, 45, 51, 145, 216

Pikes Peak, 62

pilgrims, 10, 254

pioneers, 82–83, 84. See also westerners; frontiersmen

placer mining. See mining, Chinese

plains. See Great Plains

“Plan de San Diego,” 222

“Plan for the Temporary Government of the Western Territory” (Jefferson), 33

Platte River, 38

Plenty Coups (Crow), 109–10

Plummer, Joseph, 214

Plymouth Rock (MA), 10

Polk, James K., 126

polygamy, xiv, 180, 187, 196, 200–204

polygenesis, 17–20, 46, 53–54, 65, 72, 253

Polynesians. See Pacific Islanders, Hawaiians

Pomos (American Indian group), 230

popular sovereignty, 134–35, 138

Portland, Oregon, 248

Portland Morning Oregonian, 249

poverty, 103, 158–59, 166, 170, 190, 199, 201, 202, 203, 217, 254

pragmatism (as a characteristic of whiteness), 73

Prairie states. See names of specific states; Great Plains

Pratt, Addison, 184

Pratt, Parley P., 183

Pratt, Richard Henry, 100–101

Pretty-shield (Crow), 99, 109

Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows (Linderman), 100

Progressive Era, 7, 59

prohibition of Alcohol, 137, 200

promoters, xi, xv, xvi, 7, 10, 46, 59, 66, 79, 82, 145, 251, 254–56

Proposition 187 (1994, CA)

proselytizing, 182–95, 199, 257–58

prostitution, 237–38

Protestantism, 13, 154, 158, 179, 181, 185, 191, 194, 205, 258

Prussia, 164, 173

Pueblo (American Indian groups), 100–101

Pulmonary Disease. See tuberculosis

Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (Mormonism), 186

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples (Widney), 77–78

race science, 14–20. See also monogenesis, polygenesis

racial degeneration, 6–7, 16–17, 35–36, 38, 46, 53–54, 65, 66, 69, 76, 77–78, 140, 194–95, 196, 199, 201, 205, 219, 253

racial identity, xvi

racial rigor (as characteristic of whiteness), 54, 62, 66, 76, 84, 140–42, 234, 253. See also masculinity

racism, xii, 102, 180

Raines, Gabriel J., 231

railroads xiv, 56, 59, 60, 65, 85, 96, 143, 145, 151–74, 180, 202, 251, 256–57; railroad land grants, 153, 157, 162–65, 256; railroad land offices, 154, 156, 255–56. See also names of specific lines

Ralph, Julian, 61

Ramona (Jackson), 67

rancheros (Californio Elites). See Californios

Rankin, Jeanette, 112

Ransom, Henry Lee, 221

Raville, Montana, 112

reconstruction, 9, 143, 153, 223–24, 226

Reconstruction Act (1867), 215

Red-horn (Flathead), 98

Red Mother (Linderman), 111

Red River War, 216

Red Turkish wheat, 164

refuge (for Anglo Americans), xi, xiii, 4, 79, 96, 103, 104–6, 109, 116–17, 123–24, 136, 146, 165, 169. See also homeland

religion, xi, 237, 248. See also Catholicism, Mormonism, Protestantism

Remington, Frederic, 6, 96

Remy, Jules, 180–81

republicanism, 16, 29, 31–34, 165

Republican Party, xiv, 124, 138–39, 142–43, 223, 224

rheumantism, 55

Rhode Island, 135

Ribble Valley (England), 186

Richards, Franklin D., 189, 193

Rich Bar, California, 55

right-wing, xiii

Riker, William E., 250–51

Rio Grande City, Texas, 221, 224

Rio Grande valley, x, 101, 218, 219, 221

Robinson, Alfred, 234

Rock of Prophesy, 191, 193

Rock Springs Massacre (WY), 102, 210, 240

Rockwell, Julius, 132, 133, 134

Rocky Boy Band of Cree and Chippewa Indians, 107–9, 111, 113, 116

Rocky Boy Reservation (MT), 109

Rocky Mountain News, 68

Rocky Mountains (US region), ix, xiv, 34, 45, 55, 82, 259

Roediger, David, xxiv, 12

Rogers, William, 184, 230

Rohrbach, Paul, 249

Roman empire, 72, 113, 133

romanticism, 6, 95–96

Ronda, James P., 42

Roosevelt, Theodore, x, 96, 101, 105, 226

Ross, Sul, 5

Rothman, Hal, 95

Roughing It (Twain), 199

Round Valley (CA), 232

Ruban, John Jacques, 192–93

Rush, Benjamin, 16

Rusling, James, 86, 89, 200–201

Russia, 163–64, 257

Russians, 12, 155, 156

Russian Steppe, 77, 163, 164, 172, 254, 257

Russell, Charles M., 6, 107, 108–9, 110

sagebrush, 55

Saints (Mormons), 181

Salisbury, Marquis of, 203

Salomon, F. Z., 165

Salt Lake City, Utah, 8, 168, 179, 186, 188, 199–200, 202, 204

Salt Lake Herald, 196

“Salt Wars” (TX), 219–21

Samoa, 185. See also Pacific Islands

San Angelo, Texas, 4–5, 214, 224–25

San Angelo Standard Times, 3

Sandpoint, Idaho, xiii

Sandwich Islands. See Hawaii

San Elizaro, Texas, 220

San Francisco, California, 6, 168, 184, 237

San Francisco Bulletin, 230–31

sanitariums, 58, 65

San Jose, California, 250

Santa Fe, New Mexico, 59, 68

Sartain, Cain, 171

Saules, James, 130–31, 132

savagery, 4, 6, 17, 36, 38, 44, 53, 62, 217, 228, 251, 253

“Save Our State” campaign, 259. See also California Proposition 187

Saxons, 12. See also Anglo-Saxons

Scandinavia, 159, 160, 180. See also Norway, Sweden

Scandinavian Emigrant Agency, 160–61

Scandinavians, 13, 155, 158, 159–62, 167, 173, 187, 199, 256. See also Northern Europeans, Swedes, Norwegians

Schettler, Paul A., 195

Schmidt, Carl, 164

Scotland, 155, 170, 180, 181

Scots, 167, 173, 174, 187

Scribner’s, 60

Seattle, Washington, 240, 249

secession, 138–39, 143

sectionalism, 126, 127, 131, 138, 143

segregation, 143–44, 210, 226, 227. See also Jim Crow

Seguín, Juan, 217

Seminoles (American Indian Group), 135

Sequoya League, 101

Serious Remonstrances (Branagan), 41

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 114

Seward, William H., 140

sexual depravity (of non-white peoples), 217, 218

Shawnees (American Indian Group), 214

Sheppard, George, 161–62

Sheridan, Philip, 216

Sherman, William Tecumseh, 73, 215, 216

Sicily, 55, 190. See also Italy

Sierra Nevada Mountains, 57, 155

“Significance of the Frontier in American History” (Turner), 10, 85

Simpson, O.J., xiii

Singleton, Benjamin “Pap,” 145

Sinn Fein (Irish Nationalist Movement), 114

Sinocentrism, 237. See also Sojourner Myth

slavery, 5, 7, 11, 14, 16, 18–19, 33, 41, 44–45, 53, 54, 86, 138–46, 180, 210, 211, 217, 223, 227, 252, 258; debate in California, 124–28; debate in Oregon, 130–38; of Indians, 229

Slavs, 13, 59. See also Eastern Europeans

smallpox, 55

Smith, Delazon, 134

Smith, George A., 195, 197, 199

Smith, Henry Nash, 32–33, 152

Smith, Joseph, 181–84, 186, 191

Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 15–17, 38, 253

Smith, Sherry L., 98, 111

Smith, William, 145

Snow, Eliza, 195, 196, 197, 198

Snow, Lorenzo, 188–92, 195, 196, 197, 199

social construction of race, xvi, 12

Social Darwinism, xiii, 65, 70, 72–79

socialism, 70

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, 163

“Sojourner Myth,” 237. See also Sinocentrism

Solly, Samuel Edwin, 57–58

Sons of Daniel Boone, 114

South (US region), 9, 19, 44–45, 124, 127, 130, 138–39, 140, 143, 144, 153, 216, 223–24, 227, 257

Southampton Conference, 188

South Dakota, 155, 157, 259. See also Dakota Territory

Southeast (US region), 32, 139. See also South

Southern California (US region), 52, 56, 67, 75–76, 96, 98, 106, 235

southerners, 127, 132, 138, 210

Southern Europe, 155, 158, 179, 181, 188, 195, 258

Southern Europeans, xi, xii, xvi, xxiv, 3, 8, 10, 59, 95, 173, 195, 247. See also names of specific ethnic groups; immigrants

Southern Pacific Railroad, 60

Southern plains. See Great Plains

Southwest (US region), ix, xii, xiv, xv, xvii, 6, 45, 51, 52, 62, 68, 75, 77, 89, 98, 106, 116, 124, 126, 140, 252, 253, 255, 260

Spain, 67, 76

Spaniards, x, xxiv, 12, 52, 68, 69, 77–78, 88, 215, 253

Spanish-American War, 78, 104

Spanish empire, 29, 36, 75, 217, 255

Spears, Jim, 225

Spencer, Herbert, 70, 72, 78

Squier, Ephraim G., 17

Stanford University, 75, 79

Steiner, Michael C., xiv

Stenhouse, Thomas B. H., 188, 189, 191

sterilization, 226. See also eugenics

Stern, Alexandra Minna, 79

St. John, John Pierce, 171

Stone, Charles, 230

Stoner, Willie, 226

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 180

St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (SP&P), 159–60

strenuous life, 96

Sun Dance (Sacred Native American Ceremony), 109

Sunset, 84

Sutter, John, 227, 229

Sweden, 158, 162, 181

Swedes, xv, 12, 88, 155, 156, 160, 173, 174, 202, 257. See also Northern Europeans, Scandinavians, Norwegians

Swiss, 88, 167

Switzerland, 164, 187, 188

Syrians, 249–50

System of Nature (Linnaeus), 14

Tacoma, Washington, 210

Tahiti, 184. See also French Polynesia, Tubuai

Tartars, 39

Taylor, Bayard, 65–66, 67, 75

Taylor, John, 187

Taylor, Quintard, 144

Tays, J.B., 220

Tejanos (Hispanic Texan), xxv, 8–9, 211, 212, 216–22, 224, 227. See also Hispanic Americans, Paseños

Tejon Pass (CA), 232

TennesSee, 130, 145

Teutonic. See German

Texas, xxiv, 4–5, 45, 69, 86–87, 126, 140–42, 210–27, 240, 252, 253, 255, 259

Texas Rangers, 4–5, 211, 212, 213, 214, 218–22, 225

Texas Republic, 211, 212

Texans, 86, 87, 211, 213, 214, 215

Texian. See Texans

Third World, xiii

thrift (as a characteristic of Whiteness), 84, 87, 88, 101, 164, 196, 200, 202

Throckmorton, James, 214–15

Thurston, Samuel, 134–35

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 80

Tolowas (American Indian group), 230

Tonga, 185. See also Pacific Islands

Tonkawas (American Indian group), 214

Toronto, Joseph, 188, 189, 191

Torre Pellice (city in modern Italy), 189

Touzalin, A. E., 164

Tramp Across the Continent (Lummis), 101, 102

Trans-Appalachian West. See West

Trans-Mississippi West. See West

trappers, 99, 112, 116. See also frontiersmen

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), xii, xxiv, 143, 232, 255

Trinity River (Texas), 213

tropics (and white racial degeneration), 77–78. See also climate; racial degeneration

Truth about America (Money), 169

tuberculosis, 54–59

Tubuai, 184. See also French Polynesia, Tahiti

Tucker, Dan, 220

Tule Lake (CA), 232

Tuolumne County, California, 239

Turin (city in modern Italy), 192, 193

Turkey, 198

Turner, Frederick Jackson, xiv, 10, 85, 95

Tustin, J. P., 162

Twain, Mark, 76, 199–200

Twenty-fifth Infantry (US), 226

Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), 52

Tyler, Daniel, 193

typhoid fever, 55

Tyrannical Libertymen (Anonymous), 40–41

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 180

Undeveloped West (Beadle), 84

Union Army, 162–63, 165, 215–16, 223, 225, 231

Union of States, 138–39

Union Pacific Railroad, 145

United States v. Thind (legal case), 250

US Army, 209, 213–16, 220, 222, 224–26, 256; African Americans soldiers in, 224–26 (See also Buffalo Soldiers)

US Bureau of Indian Affairs, 101, 109

US Census Bureau, xxiv, 162

US Congress, 30, 109, 125, 129, 132, 133, 137, 232, 234, 247, 248

US Constitution, 31, 33, 42, 138–39, 248

US Department of War, 215

US Government, 113, 123, 143, 203. See also federal government

US House of Representatives, 125, 127, 132

US Immigration and Naturalization Service, 260

US Senate, 30, 125, 127, 132

US Supreme Court, 135, 138, 260

Utah (State and Territory of), xiv, 88, 155, 179–81, 186, 187, 194, 199, 201, 202, 204, 257, 258. See also Salt Lake City

Utes (American Indian Group), 8

Valenčius, Conevery Bolton, 54

Van Buren, Martin, 126

vanishing Indians (belief in), 10, 43, 53, 74–75, 109, 111, 229–30. See also extinction discourse

Van Ness, Barrant, 231

Vassar College, 249

Vaughn, J., 203

Vicksburg, Mississippi, 172

vigilantism, 209, 213–14, 218, 222, 224, 230–32, 233, 235, 239–40. See also violence

Villa, Francisco “Pancho,” 222

vitiligo, 16

violence, xi, 5, 8–9, 80–81, 144, 197, 209–40; in California, 227–40; in Texas, 210–27

Virginia, 31, 42, 136

Voice of Joseph (Snow), 191

Waldenses (region in modern Italy), 189–95

Walker, Charles Dudley, 76–77

Walker, James, 139

Warner’s Ranch Indians, 106. See also mission Indians

Warren, Governeur K., 39

Wasatch Mountains (UT), 179

Wascos (American Indian Group), 130

Washington (State and Territory of), xiii, 155, 156, 160, 210

Weatherford, Texas, 213

Weber Creek (CA), 239

Weber Creek (UT), 200

welfare, 260

Welsh, 112, 156, 160, 173, 199

West (US region), xiv, 34, 39, 191, 224, 240, 247, 251, 252; population of, 155. See also Great Plains, Northwest, Southwest

West, Elliott, 6, 10, 45, 153, 236–37

Western Civilization. See civilization

westerners, xi, 66, 75, 79–80, 82–83, 88, 89, 95, 99, 103, 127, 254, 258. See also pioneers; frontiersmen

Western European. See Europeans, Southern Europeans, Northern Europeans

Westminster Abbey, 168

Whig Party, 126, 127, 137

white, xxiii, xxiv–xxv, 140, 173. See also Anglo Saxon; Anglo American

White, G. Edward, 96

White, Hugh Lawson, 43

White, Richard, 231, 235

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP), 106. See also Anglo-Americans

Whiteman (The), 213

white man’s west (concept of), ix, xiv, 6–7, 65, 90, 109, 117, 123, 216, 224, 227, 240, 250, 255–61

whiteness, 31, 70, 75, 96, 104, 114, 115–16, 124, 130, 131, 135, 137, 145, 155, 157, 160, 170, 172–73, 179–80, 182, 186, 190, 194, 199, 202, 204–5, 209, 210, 217, 226–27, 233, 234, 236, 238, 240, 247, 248, 250–61

whiteness theory, xiv, xv–xvii, xxv, 10, 12–14, 31

White Scourge (Davis), 226

white supremacy, xiv, xxv, 3–4, 73–74, 106, 211, 218, 222, 223, 236, 261

whitewashing (racial), xv, 106

Wichitas (American Indian group), 213, 214

Widney, Joseph Pomeroy, 66, 77–78, 82, 123, 254

Wild West, x

Williams, George H., 135–36

Wilmot, David, 126–27, 132

Wilmot Proviso, 126–27, 128

Wilson, R. T., 172

Wilson, Woodrow, 222

Wisconsin (State and Territory of), 159

Wise County, Texas, 214

Winn, William M., 230

Winning of the West (Roosevelt), x

Wister, Owen, 96

Woman’s Exponent, 195, 196

women, 53, 69, 71, 112, 115, 180, 196, 200–201. See also femininity

Woodcraft Indians, 114

Woodward, Jabez, 188, 191, 192, 194

work ethic: as a characteristic of whiteness, 73, 76, 86–87, 88, 101, 136, 142, 152, 155, 164, 170, 180, 190, 196, 199–200, 253; of African Americans, 171; of Hispanics, 217; of Indians, 108–9, 228

World War I, 104, 113

World War II, 251, 258

Wozencraft, Oliver M., 128, 232

Wrobel, David M., xiv, 10

Wyoming (state of), xiii, 10, 155, 259

Yaquis (American Indian group), 233

yeoman farmers, 33, 42, 123, 139, 142, 152, 169. See also farmers

Young, Brigham, 185–86, 187, 188, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 199

Zimpelman, George B., 219

Zion. See Salt Lake City

Zurich, Switerland, 188

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