| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The Geophysical and Ecological Nature of Arkansas -- Early Exploration, Trade and Colonization -- The Beginnings of United States Commerce with the Indians: The Office of Indian Affairs and the Office of Indian Trade -- The Factory System of Trade -- The Chouteaus and Other Traders in the Three Forks -- Tributaries of the Arkansas River and the Territory of Arkansas -- Early Roads and River Ferry Crossings -- The Steamboat Trade and Ferry Landings -- Merchants, Cotton Barons and Tradesmen -- The Salt Trade -- The Illegal Liquor Trade -- Black Slavery and White Bondage -- Competition: Moving from a Frontier Exchange -- Economy to a Competitive Cash Economy -- Supplying the Military -- Land as a Commodity -- Farming, Ranching and Droving -- Lumber, Mining and Mills -- Railroads -- Banking -- Latecomers and Town Builders -- Manufactures: Notes on Impacts of the Civil War |
| Summary |
"In the first decades of the 1800s, Americans entered the rugged lands of Arkansas, which, before then, had gone largely unexplored by the majority of the outside world. They established new towns and developed commercial enterprises alongside Native Americans indigenous to Arkansas and other tribes and nations that had relocated there from the East. This history is also the story of Arkansas's people, and is told through numerous biographies, highlighting early life in frontier Arkansas over a period of two hundred years. It provides a categorical look at commerce and portrays the social diversity represented by both prominent and common Arkansans-all grappling for success against extraordinary circumstances."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic history
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Arkansas -- History.
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Arkansas -- Economic conditions
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Arkansas
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476636139 |
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1476636133 |
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