Arkansas, forgotten land of plenty : settlement and economic development, 1540-1900 /

"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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Switzer, Ronald R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Temas:
Economic history
Arkansas > History.
Arkansas > Economic conditions.
Arkansas > Histoire.
Arkansas > Conditions économiques.
Arkansas
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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