➢ 255 Index abolition and abolitionists,10, 13–14, 16, 18, 93, 168; Lincoln’s attitudes toward, 13–14, 16, 224–25, 236 Abraham Lincoln: A History (Nicolay and Hay, 1886, 1890), 233–34 Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction (McCrary, 1978), 241 Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery (Brooks, 1888, 1894, 1904), 234 Abraham Lincoln and the Western Territories (McGinnis and Smith, 1994), 238 Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1858 (Beveridge, 1928), 9, 68, 235–36 AbrahamLincolnEncyclopedia,The(Neely Jr., 1982), 239 Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Sandburg , 1926), 235 Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Sandburg , 1936–37), 235 Adams, James, 176–77 agriculture, 24. 27–29; Lincoln’s attitudes toward, 27 American System, 26, 94; Lincoln’s support for, 5–6 American West. See trans-Mississippi American West Anderson, Gary Clayton, 240 anti-expansionism, 6–8; Lincoln’s views of, 6–8. See also Wilmot proviso anti-Nebraska movement, 16; Lincoln’s role in, 16, 57–58 Aristotelianism, 189–90, 203 Arizona, 47, 48, 54, 142; Lincoln’s political appointees in, 48 Arkansas, 48, 55–56; and Reconstruction, 55–56 “Arkansas and Abraham Lincoln: Wartime Reconstruction and the President ’s Plan for the State” (Berry, 1992), 241 Arnold, Isaac N., 5 Arny, William F. M., 125, 126, 127, 149 Ashley, James M., 115, 117 Ashmun, George, 69 Ashmun Amendment, 69, 75 Ayres, Carol Dark, 237 Baker, Edward D., 11, 37, 45–46, 70, 82, 84; and Anson Henry, 179–80, 181; and Lincoln, 162–63, 181; and MexicanAmerican War, 159, 179; in Oregon, 38–39, 160, 181, 242 Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 140 Bates, Edward, 36, 52, 114–15, 127, 155 Baylor, John R., 54 Beeson, John, 32, 223 Benedict, Kirby, 47, 126–27, 138, 149 Bennett, John, 191, 192 Berry, Conrad, III, 241 Berwanger, Eugene H., 241 Beveridge, Albert J., 9, 14, 68–69, 235–36, 237 Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (Fredrickson, 2008), 241 blacks, 50, 56, 104, 196, 203–4, 215. See also Negroes Blair, Harry C., 240 Blair, Montgomery, 36, 52, 147 Index 256 Blair family, 147–48 Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 68 “Bleeding Kansas,” 15–16; Lincoln’s comments on, 15–16, 20, 242 Blueprint for Modern America (Curry, 1968), 238 Blunt, James G., 213–14 Boritt, Gabor S., 9, 68–69, 237, 238 Brooks, Noah, 1, 234, 242 Brother Jonathan, 174, 186 Brown, John, 15, 20; Lincoln’s comments about, 20–21 Brown, William, 82 Bryant, William Cullen, 90 Buchanan, James, 15, 100, 103–4, 138 Butler, Benjamin, 56 Butterfield, Justin, 11, 158, 179 Calhoun, John C., 79, 80–81 California, 1, 26, 45–46, 99, 100, 160; Edward Baker and patronage in, 162–63; Lincoln’s interests in, 45; political clashes in, 45–46, 162–63 California Gold Rush, 3, 45, 46 Carleton, James H., 54, 126, 127, 138, 224 Carman, Harry J., 135, 238 Cass, Lewis, 95 Chandler, Zachariah, 121, 123 Chase, Salmon P., 130, 167, 168, 183 Cherokee Indians, 31–32, 213 cholera and treatment, 176, 177, 179, 180 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Mormons Civil War, 34–35, 51, 134, 224; impact on West, 51–54, 224 Civil War in the American West, The (Josephy , 1991), 241 Civil War in the Western Territories, The: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah (Colton, 1959), 241 Clay, Henry, 7, 8, 12, 85, 93; Lincoln’s admiration for, 8, 13, 95–96 Clemens, Orion M., 44, 127 Cole, George E., 169 Colfax, Schuyler, 1, 125, 128 Colonel Edward D. Baker: Lincoln’s Constant Ally (Blair and Tarshis, 1960), 240 colonization plans, 50; Lincoln’s support for, 50 Colorado, 41, 115, 117, 124–25; territorial governors in, 42–43, 124–25, 146–47 Colorado militia, 43, 54. See also Sand Creek Massacre (1864) Colton, Ray, 241 Committee on Territories, 156 Compromise of 1850, 12, 99 Confederacy, 22–23, 31–32, 49, 51–52, 211; and New Mexico, 141–42, 148–49. See also South Congress, 44, 51, 83; legislation in, 24–29, 242. See also specific enactments Congressman Abraham Lincoln (Riddle, 1957), 237 Connelly, Henry, 47, 49, 127, 137, 138–39, 143–44, 148 Constitution, 22, 194; Lincoln’s comments on, 23, 25, 203 Cooper, James Fenimore, 3 Cooper Union speech (1860), 20–21, 90–91, 97 Corwin, Thomas, 72, 75 Council Bluffs, Iowa, 20, 25 Cox, “Sunset,” 115–16 Curry, Leonard P., 238 Curtis, Samuel R., 52–53 Dakota Territory, 41, 123–24; Lincoln’s political appointees in, 41, 123–24 Dakota Territory, 1861–1889 (Lamar, 1956...