Marketing the frontier in the Northwest Territory : land sales, soils and the settling of the Great Lakes Region in the 19th century /

"Combining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this study examines the failure of frontier farms in the antebellum Northwest Territory, where legislatively created markets and poor surveying resulted in massive investment losses for both individual farmers and the nat...

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Main Author: Mitchell, Robert E., 1930- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2020.
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Online Access:CONNECT