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Title: The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin
Author: Frederick Jackson Turner
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Language: English
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES
IN
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor
History is past Politics and Politics present History.--Freeman
NINTH SERIES
XI-XII
The Character and Influence of the
Indian Trade in Wisconsin
_A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution_
BY FREDERICK J. TURNER, PH.D.
_Professor of History, University of Wisconsin_
BALTIMORE
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS
PUBLISHED MONTHLY
November and December, 1891
COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY N. MURRAY.
ISAAC FRIEDENWALD CO., PRINTERS,
BALTIMORE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE.
I. INTRODUCTION 7
II. PRIMITIVE INTER-TRIBAL TRADE 10
III. PLACE OF THE INDIAN TRADE IN THE SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA 11
1. Early Trade along the Atlantic Coast 11
2. In New England 12
3. In the Middle Region 18
4. In the South 16
5. In the Far West 18
IV. THE RIVER AND LAKE SYSTEMS OF THE NORTHWEST 19
V. WISCONSIN INDIANS 22
VI. PERIODS OF THE WISCONSIN INDIAN TRADE 25
VII. FRENCH EXPLORATION IN WISCONSIN 26
VIII. FRENCH POSTS IN WISCONSIN 33
IX. THE FOX WARS 34
X. FRENCH SETTLEMENT IN WISCONSIN 38
XI. THE TRADERS' STRUGGLE TO RETAI
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